January 20th 2014. Pick of the Day.
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Today's two series are IFC Center's The Way He Was: Early Redford and the 2014 New York Jewish Film Fest, hosted by the Film Society. The short list be thus;
IFC Center
THE CANDIDATE (1972) Dir; Michael Ritchie
Film Forum
BOY (1969) Dir; Nagisa Oshima
Film Society of Lincoln Center
PROFESSOR MAMLOCK (1938) Dirs; Herbert Rappaport, Adolf Minkin
Today's Pick? Where do I start there's so much to choose from?
Okay, bad jokes aside, I'm going with Rappaport and Minkin's PROFESSOR MAMLOCK, screening as part of the 2014 New York Jewish Film Fest uptown at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. A potent time capsule capturing the insidious growth of anti-Semitism in Hitler's Germany, produced in the Soviet Union at a time when Hollywood had yet to enter the propagandist fray, MAMLOCK is offered today by the Film Society as a free screening, a limited number of seats available on a first come basis. As this era in world history should never be forgot and as art is perfectly suited to help explain these depressing nightmares, I can't think of a more worthy expenditure of your screentime today. Being a Cinegeek ain't always a trip to Chuck E. Cheese, Knuckleheads.
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 I eagerly anticipate the end of Football for yet another year! DIE FOUL BEAST!!! And take the Broncos givin' 1.5 points!
-Joe Walsh
