January 10th 2014. Pick of the Day.
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New and continuing series today include IFC Center's The Way He Was: Early Redford, MoMA's limited run The Aesthetics of Shadow, Part One: Japan and ongoing Auterist History of Film, the Film Society's hot stone massage for no-budget auteur Edgar G. Ulmer, and the Rubin Museum's swank Cabaret Cinema. The megillah in whole;
IFC Center
THE GREAT GATSBY (1974) Dir; Jack Clayton
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968) Dir; Stanley Kubrick
SUGAR HILL (1974) Dir; Paul Maslansky
Film Forum
IL SORPASSO (1962) Dir; Dino Risi
MoMA
ANOTHER SKY (1954) Die; Gavin Lambert
JOAN THE WOMAN (1916) Dir; Cecil B. DeMille
CROSSROADS (1928) Dir; Teinosuke Kinugasa
Film Society of Lincoln Center
THE LIGHT AHEAD (1939) Dir; Edgar G. Ulmer
THE NAKED DAWN (1955) Dir; Edgar G. Ulmer
New York Historical Society
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962) Dir; Robert Mulligan
Rubin Museum
NOW, VOYAGER (1942) Dir; Irving Rapper
Landmark Sunshine Cinema
ERASERHEAD (1977) Dir; David Lynch
Today's Pick? David Lynch's ERASERHEAD, perhaps the ultimate midnight movie screening tonight at the Landmark Sunshine Cinema at, what else, midnight. Why? Well firstly because it was the debut feature of one of the modern era's boldest and most unique voices, someone who would go on to create indelible work in more traditional cinematic milieu (THE ELEPHANT MAN, THE STRAIGHT STORY), and in more, well, what's come to be termed Lynchian avenues (BLUE VELVET, WILD AT HEART, jeezus just about everything he did that wasn't THE ELEPHANT MAN or THE STRAIGHT STORY). Secondly because it's a film like no other, defying genre still these 36 years later, something that may have lurked equally in the deepest darkest subconcious of both Luis Bunuel and Douglas Sirk. Lastly, because in Heaven everything is fine. Or so the Radiator Lady still promises.
For more info on these and all NYC's classic screenings in January '14 click on the interactive calendar on the upper right hand side of the screen. And be sure to follow me on Facebook and Twitter! Back tomorrow with a brand new Pick, til then prepare for the rainstorm and melting ice floods that will surely end civilization as we are currently accustomed, and offer that same advice to the other kids. Excelsior, Knucks!
-Joe Walsh
