January 12th 2014. Pick of the Day.
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Today's continuing series include IFC Center's The Way He Was; Early Redford, the Nitehawk Cinema's Coen Brothers Before Fargo, MoMA's Aesthetics of Shadow, Part One: Japan, MoMI's limited run trib to Stephen Frears, and the Film Society's hosting of the 2014 NY Jewish Film Festival. The cinematic Roshambo as follows;
Film Forum
THE LITTLE FUGITIVE (1953) Dirs; Morris Engel & Ruth Orkin
IFC Center
THE GREAT GATSBY (1974) Dir; Jack Clayton
Nitehawk Cinema
RAISING ARIZONA (1987) Dirs; Joel & Ethan Cohen
MoMA
SOULS ON THE ROAD (1921) Dir; Minoru Murata
PAGE OF MADNESS (1926) Dir; Teinosuke Kinugasa
Museum of the Moving Image
DANGEROUS LIASONS (1988) Dir; Stephen Frears
Film Society of Lincoln Center
MAMELE (1938) Dir; Joseph Green
ANATOMY OF A MURDER (1959) Dir; Otto Preminger
Today's Pick? I'm going with 1953's THE LITTLE FUGITIVE, Morris Engel & Ruth Orkin's seminal NYC neo-realist screed, which helped kick off the city's filmic rebirth as the center of indie and experimental cinema in the aftermath of its decades-long ceding of status to Hollywood and its moguls. Part fable, replete with said's requisite warmth, part stark view of the chilly modernization of the postwar metropolis, FUGITIVE has lost none of its ability to reduce its audience to their seven year-old iterations, and is as comforting and as scary as that proposition suggests.
For more info on these and all NYC's classic film screenings in January '14 click on the interactive calendar on the upper right hand side of the page. And be sure to follow me on Facebook and Twittter! Back tomorow with a brand new Pick, til then safe, sound, keep an eye on the next Stockah too!
-Joe Walsh
