November 17th 2013. Pick Of The Day.
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Keepin' it short n' sweet today. Continuing series include BAM's career retrospective of the great American character actor Bruce Dern, Museum of the Moving Image's Computer Age: Early Computer Movies 1952-87, and Anthology Film Archives' Closely Watched Trains. The full shenanigans;
Film Forum
DISNEY MOUSE PARTY; MICKEY'S 85TH ANNIVERSARY
BAM Cinematek
MARNIE (1964) Dir; Alfred Hitchcock
HUSH...HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE (1964) Dir; Robert Aldrich
Mid-Manhattan Library
HOLIDAY (1938) Dir; George Cukor
Museum of the Moving Image
THE LAST STARFIGHTER (1984) Dir; Nick Castle
United Palace of Cultural Arts
CASABLANCA (1942) Dir; Michael Curtiz
Anthology Film Archives
EMPEROR OF THE NORTH (1973) Dir; Robert Aldrich
NARROW MARGIN (1952) Dir; Richard Fleischer
Today's Pick? I'd sure like to make it a multi-borough Aldrich double feature today, but I've already chosen his excellent EMPEROR OF THE NORTH yesterday, and anyway something really, really special is happening tonight. The United Palace of Cultural Arts, a.k.a. the old Loews 175th street movie palace, has just re-opened its doors as a classic film venue, one more to grace our Cinegeek metropolis. For their inaugural presentation they left it up to their crowdsourcing contributors for a vote, and the winner by a clear choice was STAR WARS, and the runner-up was THE WIZARD OF OZ. Which is kind of a shame because they were both unavailable to license, clearing the path for tonight's screening of Michael Curtiz's heavyweight champeen of all-time, 1942's CASABLANCA. The opportunity to watch this film in an honest-to-god movie palace, along with what promises to be a special intro to the film and the theater itself by NY Post chief film critic Lou Lumenick, is simply an unbeatable offer tonight. Here's looking forward to more great classic screenings at this remarkable space!
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-Joe Walsh
