May 11th 2014. Pick of the Day.
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Sunday. Lazy. Let's get to it.
Today's continuing series include Film Forum Jr. at Film Forum, and the Kenji Mizoguchi trib at Museum of the Moving Image. Survey sez?
Film Forum
THE PARENT TRAP (1961) Dir; David Swift
Nitehawk Cinema
THE BOY WHO TURNED YELLOW (1972) Dirs; Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
Mid-Manhattan Library
SPELLBOUND (1945) Dir; Alfred Hitchcock
Museum of the Moving Image
HOMETOWN (1930) Dir; Kenji Mizoguchi
WHITE THREADS OF THE WATERFALL (1933) Dir; Kenji Mizoguchi
MUSASHI MIYAMOTO (1944) Dir; Kenji Mizoguchi
Symphony Space
TRASH (1968) Dir; Paul Morrissey
IFC Center
GODZILLA (1954) Dir; Ishiro Honda
Today's Pick? I promise to turn my attentions more fully to the excellent Mizoguchi retro at Moving Image come next weekend. At the moment however, the final collaboration betwixt The Archers, the writing-producing-directing team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, the madmen behind such Brit cinema brilliance as THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP, BLACK NARCISSUS and THE RED SHOES, graces one of our best rep screens today. 1972's THE BOY WHO TURNED YELLOW, the Roald Dahlesque tale of a youngster preoccupied by his imagination and the tube trip that inexplicably turns him the color of the sun, makes a rare appearance on a NYC screen (hell on ANY screen) for Sunday brunch at the Nitehawk Cinema. Produced for the UK's Children's Film Foundation, which specialized in low-budget short form morality lessons, Powell and Pressburger, at the end of their careers, were bereft the mighty funds they could command once seemingly at will. From all accounts though, as I've never personally seen this and hope the iPhone alarm goes off as planned, while financially austere the film is rich with the charm and inventiveness the master craftsmen seemed ever to effortlessly conjure. We get the infrequent opportunity to discover for ourselves this afternoon.
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-Joe Walsh
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