January 9th 2014. Pick of the Day.
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Few doings this day on the rep circuit, but I do have a bridge to sell ya. No? How about two lanes on the GW? Anybody? Anyone at all?
Continuing series today are limited to MoMA; the ongoing Auteurist History of Film and the shorter term The Aesthetics of Shadow, Part One: Japan. The slim roster as follows;
Film Forum
IL SORPASSO (1962) dir; Dino Risi
MoMA
ANOTHER SKY (1954) Dir; Gavin Lambert
CROSSROADS (1928) Dir; Teinosuke Kinugasa
JOAN THE WARRIOR (1916) Dir; Cecil B. DeMille
BowTie Chelsea Cinemas
9 TO 5 (1980) Dir; Colin Higgins
Today's Pick? CURVEBALL! I'm eschewing, ESCHEWING I sez, the more elitist retro cinema on hand and taking the Jane Fonda/Lily Tomlin/Dolly Parton headlighting - I mean headLINING - comedy of sexual manners and class warfare, the seemingly quaint but well-toothed 9 TO 5 from 1980, screening as part of the BowTie's Chelsea Classics series. As I've said in the past the Chelsea's program offers only BluRay projection, and that's a drag, but it also offers the communal film experience in a non-repertory-dedicated venue, and it's sorta cool to mix with the crowd catching Katniss Everdeen's latest Dolby-enhanced murder spree, or Stallone and De Niro co-starring in a boxing film 30 years too late, while you're trotting popcorn and soda in tow toward a theater unveiling a flick 33 years old. Or 12 years older than the median age of the ticket buyers. Can't I just sell these things?
For more info on these and all NYC's classic screenings in January '14 feel free to click on the interactive calendar on the upper right hand side of the page. And be sure to follow me on Facebook and Twitter! Back tomorrow with a newly christened Pick, til then love ya lots, and be sure to tell the other tykes how much they mean to ya too. Excelsior, Knucks!
-Joe Walsh
