March 26th 2014. Pick of the Day.
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It's come to the point in this savage winter where I'm scouring the aisles at Duane Reade and Walgreen's for soul balm. I'm still lookin', but hopefully this week will die a brutal death and the looming prospect of baseball's opening day will tramp it's dirt down.
Ahem.
Today's new and continuing series include The Complete Hitchcock at Film Forum, An Auteurist History of Film at MoMA, and Auteurs Gone Wild at Anthology Film Archives. The battle for our cultural soul looks like this;
Film Forum
THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY (1956) Dir; Alfred Hitchcock
FAMILY PLOT (1976) Dir; Alfred Hitchcock
MoMA
RAVEN'S END (1963) Dir; Bo Widerberg
Anthology Film Archives
EDWARD, MY SON (1949) Dir; George Cukor
A COUNTESS FROM HONG KONG (1967) Dir; Charles Chaplin
Nitehawk Cinema
THE BEYOND (1981) Dir; Lucio Fulci
Today's Pick? Hitchcock's last blatant attempt at blackly comic examination of rustic, eccentric small-town America peculiarities; 1956's THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY, screening at Film Forum as part of their slowly concluding Complete Hitchcock series. Because 22 year-old Shirley MacLaine. I'm easy.
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 duck them 30 mph gusts, kiddo, someday this Winter's gonna end!
-Joe Walsh
P. S. Should you be feeling charitable during this harsh weather period please remember to check in with the good folks over at Occupy Sandy. Some of our NY neighbors are still feeling the effects of the 2012 hurricane. Be a mensch.
