March 11th 2014. Pick of the Day.
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Today's ongoing series inlude Film Forum's The Complete Hitchcock, MoMA's Vienna Unveiled, BAM Cinematek's Overdue, and Anthology Film Archives' Overdue: Richard Fleischer. Those last two should settle naming rights in a duel. The list as follows;
Film Society of Lincoln Center
LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (1961) Dir; Alain Resnais
Film Forum
REAR WINDOW (1954) Dir; Alfred Hitchcock
CHAMPAGNE (1928) Dir; Alfred Hitchcock
French Institute/Alliance Francais
CHOCOLAT (1988) Dir; Claire Denis
BAM Cinematek
THE BREAKING POINT (1950) Dir; Michael Curtiz
MoMA
SCHWITZKASTEN (1978) Dir; John Cook
Anthology Film Archives
ARMORED CAR ROBBERY (1950) Dir; Richard Fleischer
THE GIRL IN THE RED VELVET SWING (1955) Dir; Richard Fleischer
Today's Pick? I gotta go with Michael Curtiz's THE BREAKING POINT, screening tonight at BAM Cinematek, which found the sorta-auteur venturing to produce a truer screen adap of Ernest Hemingway's TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT than Howard Hawks had attempted, the latter hell-yes auteur grafting the basics of Hem's tale onto a template that more closely followed Curtiz's CASABLANCA. Still with me?
All that geek esoterica aside the pertinent skinny be thus; John Garfield's fishing boat captain gets lured into a highly illegal scheme smuggling immigrants into the U. S. Patricia Neal shows up to complicate things. Noir ensues. I've never seen this flick but its pedigree is more than enough to warrant a trip to that NYC tourist Mecca known as Brooklyn. Plus its gonna be 60 degrees today, did I mention?
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-Joe Walsh
