January 13th 2014. Pick of the Day.
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New and continuing series today includes BAM's one-night only Rossellini x 2, MoMA's limited run The Aesthetics of Shadow, Part One: Japan, and IFC Center's Queer/Art/Film 2014. The classic celluloid jambalaya looks thusly;
Film Forum
IL SORPASSO (1962) Dir; Dino Risi
MoMA
SOULS ON THE ROAD (1921) Dir; Minoru Murata
PAGE OF MADNESS (1926) Dir; Teinosuke Kinugasa
BAM
STROMBOLI (1950) Dir; Roberto Rossellini
BLUE VELVET (1986) Dir; David Lynch
IFC Center
REBECCA (1940) Dir; Alfred Hitchcock
Film Society of Lincoln Center
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM (1955) Dir; Otto Preminger
Today's Pick? It's not quite a double-bill as they require separate admission, but the Rossellini evening at BAM, featuring dad Roberto's STROMBOLI (which stars mom Ingrid Bergman) and followed by daughter Isabella's breakthrough perf in David Lynch's seminal BLUE VELVET, walks off the winner tonight. No disrespect to the proud papa of not only Isabella but the Italian Neo-Realist movement in the postwar era, but if I hadda choose one of the two unspoolings Lynch's VELVET would swipe my affections by a narrow margin. Both men contributed in ways controversial and even subversive to the cinematic timeline, but the simple selfish fact that I was alive to experience the upheaval BLUE VELVET caused in the slumbering cinematic world of the mid-80's wrangles some nostalgic bliss outta this Cinegeek. Here's to your fuck.
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-Joe Walsh
