March 7th 2014. Pick of the Day.
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Today's new and continuing series include MoMA's Auteurist History of Film and Vienna Unveiled, Film Forum's exercise in cinematic corpulence The Complete Hitchcock, Anthology Film Archives' Overdue: Richard Fleischer, and the Rubin Museum's swank Cabaret Cinema. The repertory hijinks as follows;
Film Forum
NOSTALGHIA (1983) Dir; Andrei Tarkovsky
NOTORIOUS (1946) Dir; Alfred Hitchcock
WALTZES FROM VIENNA (1933) Various Directors
MoMA
THE SERVANT (1963) Dir; Joseph Losey
INVISIBLE ADVERSARIES (1977) Dir; VALIE EXPORT
SCHWITZKASTEN (1978) Dir; John Cook
Anthology Film Archives
TRAPPED (1949) Dir; Richard Fleischer
ARMORED CAR ROBBERY (1950) Dir; Richard Fleischer
Rubin Museum
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959) Dir; Alfred Hitchcock
Nitehawk Cinema
XANADU (1980) Dir; Robert Greenwald
Today's Pick? Easy. Robert Greenwald's XANADU, unspooling just after midnight at the Nitehawk Cinema. You have to ask?
For more info on these and all NYC's classic film screenings in March '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 tomorrow with a brand new Pick, til then safe, sound, make sure the next knucklehead is too! Go 'way winter!
-Joe Walsh
