It's The Nitrate Stock Weekend Getaway! No It's Not A Promotional Contest, It's My Actual Weekend Getaway! I Don't Know When Your Next Vacation's Coming, What Am I Your Travel Agent??? Plus Picks!
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Hey, it's been a couple of years, can you really blame me? And it ain't like I'm going to the Caribbean or Europe, I'm a mere bus ride away. But I need to shut down my routine life for a couple of days, and that includes the daily blog, at least for this weekend. I will now, however, provide you with the bulk-buy version of the daily Picks for the next three days, as well as the rep circuit's doings. New and continuing series over the workweek's respite include Original Gangsters at IFC Center, Carte Blanche: MK2 at MoMA, All Hail the King: The Films of King Hu at BAM Cinématek, See It Big! Science Fiction (Part Two) and the last of the Kenji Mizoguchi retrospective at Museum of the Moving Image, and Film Forum Jr. at, where else, Film Forum. The next few day's worth of rep circuit shenanigans be thus;
FRIDAY June 6th
IFC Center
LITTLE CAESAR (1931) Dir; Mervyn Le Roy
THE SHINING (1980) Dir; Stanley Kubrick
BLUE VELVET (1986) Dir; David Lynch
Film Forum
THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (1946) Dir; William Wyler
MoMA
DIRTY HARRY (1971) Dir; Don Siegel
BLOW FOR BLOW (1972) Marin Karmitz
Museum of the Moving Image
PRINCESS YANG KWEI-FEI (1955) Dir; Kenji Mizoguchi
New York Historical Society
STORMY WEATHER (1943) Dir; Andrew L. Stone
BAM Cinématek
A TOUCH OF ZEN (1971) Dir; King Hu
Washington Square Park Arch
LES TONTONS FLINGUEURS (1963) Dir; Georges Lautner
Today's Pick: Georges Lautner's LES TONTONS FLINGUEURS. It's an outdoor movie in June. Duh.
SATURDAY June 7th
IFC Center
LITTLE CAESAR (1931) Dir; Mervyn Le Roy
THE SHINING (1980) Dir; Stanley Kubrick
BLUE VELVET (1986) Dir; David Lynch
Nitehawk Cinema
OVERBOARD (1987) Dir; Garry Marshall
Film Forum
THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (1946) Dir; William Wyler
Museum of the Moving Image
METROPOLIS (1927) Dir Fritz Lang
THE LADY OF MUSHASHINO (1951) Dir; Kenji Mizoguchi
A WOMAN OF RUMOR (1954) Dir; Kenji Mizoguchi
BAM Cinématek
THE LOVE ETERNE (1963) Dir; Li Han Hsiang
JOHNNY GUITAR (1954) Dir; Nicholas Ray
Today's Pick: The Kenji Mizoguchi double feature at Moving Image; THE LADY OF MUSHASHINO and A WOMAN OF RUMOR. Because it's this extraordinary series' penultimate day. Show the Gooch some love.
SUNDAY June 8th
Film Forum
THE RED SHOES (1948) Dirs; Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
THE MORE THE MERRIER (1943) Dir; George Stevens
THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (1946) Dir; William Wyler
IFC Center
LITTLE CAESAR (1931) Dir; Mervyn Le Roy
Nitehawk Cinema
OVERBOARD (1987) Dir; Garry Marshall
AMC Loews Kips Bay 15, AMC Empire 25
SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (1978) Dir; John Badham
Museum of the Moving Image
TALES OF THE TAIRA CLAN (1955) Dir; Kenji Mizoguchi
FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956) Dir; Fred M. Wilcox
Mid-Mahattan Library
I CONFESS (1953) Dir; Alfred Hitchcock
MoMA
FATHER AND MASTER (1977) Paolo Taviani
THE WALL (1983) Dir; Yilmaz Güney
BAM Cinématek
COME DRINK WITH ME (1966) Dir; King Hu
Today's Pick: George Steven's THE MORE THE MERRIER at Film Forum, intro'd by author Mark Harris (Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War). Because knowledge.
For more info on these and all NYC's classic film screenings in June '14 click on the interactive calendar on the upper right hand side of the page. For the monthly overview and other audio tomfoolery check out the podcast, and follow me on SoundCloud! For reviews of contemporary cinema and my streaming habits (keep it clean!) check out my Letterboxd 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 stay at least relatively safe and sound til I get back, willya? I hate being away from you kids.
-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.
