May 24th 2014. Pick of the Day.
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JEEZUS you don't know the WEEK I had!
Wait, I meant to lead with GODDAM IT'S GOOD TO BE BACK! I MISSED YOU GUYS N' GALS! And then work in to my shpilkis. Okay now we're good.
It's truly amazing how thick-headed a person can be sometimes. Okay a specific person in this case. OKAY ME! There! I was gonna get to it eventually, let alone you draggin' it outta me.
How many times is it drilled into our thick user skulls to back up our computer files, back them up again, and make sure you've backed up THAT back up. Which is something I normally do quite routinely. However, as a reaction to some minor computer glitchery I'd been encountering lately I simply lost that focus on the safety of my files and forgot to back up a few weeks worth of web work. Then, it followed, my iMac's hard drive decided to take the coward's way out. And so, like Keyser Soze, whoosh, about six weeks worth of work was gone.
Unlike Keyser I may actually be able to retrieve that labor, that's an issue to be sorted later. What bugged me more was being disconnected from my baby, my pride and joy, this here website thingy I been joined at the hip to for just about 2 years. Sure, I ain't the official website to the KIMYE wedding or nothin' like that, but I do have steady traffic, in a number some find pretty impressive, and I like to make sure all the little bells and whistles I've adorned the page with run smoothly at all times.
So it's with great relief that I offer this new post, after what seemed like an eternity away from the page but was really just a three day absence. I don't do tech-disconnect all that well. So read up suckahz! There's a plethora of rep circuit entertainment to be had. Dig into this article and then get out and take advantage of it!
Today's continuing series include Original Gangsters at IFC Center, the Kenji Mizoguchi retrospective at Museum of the Moving Image, An Auteurist History of Film Reprise, Part Two at MoMA, Fassbinder: Romantic Anarchist (Part One) at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and the erudite and effete Jerry Lewis: The Completed Retrospective at Anthology Film Archives. The doin's be thus;
IFC Center
SCARFACE (1932) Dir; Howard Hawks
GODZILLA (1954) Dir; Ishiro Honda
PURPLE RAIN (1984) Dir; Albert Magnoli
Nitehawk Cinema
THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH (1970) Dir; Chuck Jones
PSYCHO (1960) Dir; Alfred Hitchcock
Museum of the Moving Image
THE FAMOUS SWORD BIJOMARU (1945) Dir; Kenji Mizoguchi
PORTRAIT OF MADAME YUKI (1950) Dir; Kenji Mizoguchi
OSAKA ELEGY (1936) Dir; Kenji Mizoguchi
MoMA
L'AVVENTURA (1960) Dir; Michelangelo Antonioni
SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING (1960) Dir; Karel Reisz
SALVATORE GIULIANO (1961) Dir; Francesco Rosi
Film Society of Lincoln Center
WHITY (1971) Dir; Rainer Werner Fassbinder
THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT (1972) Dir; Rainer Werner Fassbinder
BEWARE OF A HOLY WHORE (1970) Dir; Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Anthology Film Archives
ONE MORE TIME (1970) Dir; Jerry Lewis
HARDLY WORKING (1980) Dir; Jerry Lewis
ORPHEUS (1950) Dir; Jean Cocteau
WHICH WAY TO THE FRONT? (1970) Dir; Jerry Lewis
THE BLOOD OF A POET (1930) Dir; Jean Cocteau
Today's Pick? I haven't given the warm fuzzy hug to German New Wave pioneer Rainer Werner Fassbinder yet, and a pair of his early, formative works unspool smack dab in the middle of the Upper West Side's baby-stroller central. So it is with great subversive glee that I choose the hirsuite Hun's WHITY, THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT and BEWARE OF A HOLY WHORE, which are subject to discount ticketing should you choose to make a triple-bill out of them today at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. If I'd been running this retospective I'd have planned a Fassbinder look-a-like contest. Wasted opportunity, fellas.
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-Joe Walsh
P. S. Even though we're coming into the summer months and therefore not often as mindful of the displaced, some of our fellow NY'ers are yet to be made whole since Hurricane Sandy hit nearly two years ago. Check in with the good folks at Occupy Sandy to see if you can't still volunteer/donate to our neighbors in need. Be a mensch.
