January 18th 2014. Pick of the Day.
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Hopefully today's post is as accurate as I'm accustomed to providing, what with all this distraction over Bridgegate, by which I mean a recent dental procedure I've had go scandalously wrong. New and continuing series today include IFC's penultimate weekend devoted to The Way He Was: Early Redford, the Film Society's reappraisal of no-budget auteur Edgar G. Ulmer, MoMA's expiring Aesthetics of Shadow, Part One: Japan, and the Nitehawk Cinema's Coen Brothers Before Fargo. The amusement park itinerary as follows;
IFC Center
THE CANDIDATE (1972) Dir; Michael Ritchie
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968) Dir; Stanley Kubrick
EVIL DEAD (1981) Dir; Sam Raimi
JAWS (1975) Dir; Steven Spielberg
Anthology Film Archives
TOTALY 80'S MOVIE FREAKOUT! (Various Years, Directors)
Film Forum
BOY (1969) Dir; Nagisa Oshima
Film Scoiety of Lincoln Center
THE NAKED DAWN (1955) Dir; Edgar G. Ulmer
RUTHLESS (1948) Dir; Edgar G. Ulmer
PHASE IV (1974) Dir; Saul Bass
MoMA
HUMANITY AND PAPER BALLOON (1937) Dir; Sadao Yamanaka
SINGING LOVEBIRDS (1939) Dir; Masahiro Makino
THE WAR AT SEA FROM HAWAII TO MALAYA (1942) Dir; Kajiro Yamamoto
Nitehawk Cinema
BLOOD SIMPLE (1984) Dirs; Joel and Ethan Coen
Today's Pick? I'm gonna go ahead and advise you gamble on the potential awesomeness that Anthology Film Archives' Totally 80's Movie Freakout! promises! They're keeping a tight lid on the shenanigans, but for the $25 all-day admission can you really go so wrong? And were I to hazard a guess at a few of the secretive titles set to unspool among them would be Mark L. Lester's CLASS OF 1984, James B. Harris' COP, Richard Frankiln's ROAD GAMES, and perhaps Ken Russell's CRIMES OF PASSION. These are all guesses, mind ya, so I'll be finding out for myself should I actually make the marathon, but should I be wrong I'm even more excited to see what they've got planned. Bring it, Mekas!
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 page. And be sure to follow me on both Facebook, where I provide further info and esoterica on the rep film circuit and star birthdays, and Twitter, where I provide a daily feed for the day's screenings and other blathery. Back with a brand new Pick tomorrow, til then be sure to take yer rubbers with ya today and castigate the other tykes who snicker at the term rubbers. Excelsior, Knucks!
-Joe Walsh
