January 21st 2014. Pick of the Day.
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For the life of me I can't fathom why you'd engage in another bout with this insidious Polar Vortex, which makes a return trip to our fair metropolis in sorta the same spirit and frequency as Godzilla's slapsticky jaunts through Tokyo. To those of you true Cinegeeks who will let nothing short of holocaust-by-comet deter them from their cinematic fealty, today's series include the French Institute's CineSalon, repping some truly great Gallic cinema in newly restored prints and DCP, and the Kaufman Music Center's Silent Films/Live Guitars res ipso loquitor. The brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr doings be thus;
Film Forum
BOY (1969) Dir; Nagisa Oshima
French Institute/Alliance Francais
SUMMER (1986) Dir; Eric Rohmer
Merkin Concert Hall, Kaufman Music Center
DOCKS OF NEW YORK (1928) Dir; Joseph Von Sternberg/CONEY ISLAND (1917) Dir; Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle
Today's Pick? The Kaufman Center's Live Guitars/Silent Films series, tonight offering Joseph Von Sternberg's seminal THE DOCKS OF NEW YORK, accompanied by experimental guitar virtuoso Marc Ribot, and "Fatty" Arbuckle's CONEY ISLAND, with live six-string work provided by Punch Brothers axeman David Eldridge. Joey VS's moody silent crime melodrama not only serves as fascinating connective tissue between Weimar era shadowy camerawork and Hollywood's noir era, which lay about 12 years properly in its future, it remains genuinely entertaining in its own right lo these 86 years later. "Fatty" Arbuckle, coversely, bring de funny. Tix are bound to move fast, so buy 'em early. Or just stay under the covers as long as you can today. Either option is entirely seasonally valid.
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, seriously? You're thinking of going out in this crap? LAYERS, kids, LAYERS!!!
-Joe Walsh
