June 29th 2014. Pick of the Day.
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Why is there no happy song about Sunday? U2 wrote about the Easter Uprising, the Velvets described a Sabbath heroin languish, Joe Jackson focused his melodic vitriol on the 7th day tabloids. It seems to only engender acidic, unfortunate commentary, this day of rest, to which I offer the following response; piss off, ya faux-intellectual joykillers! I got a June breeze, cold green tea and my choice of classic film unspooling to indulge in today. My nyeh is more powerful than yours.
Ongoing series today include Alec Guinness 100 at Film Forum, Original Gangsters at IFC Center, See It Big! Science Fiction (Part Two) at Museum of the Moving Image, and The Italian Connection: Poliziotteschi and Other Italo-Crime Films of the 60's and 70's at Anthology Film Archives. To war we gotta go;
Film Forum
SAFETY LAST (1923) Dir; Harold Lloyd
STAR WARS (1977) Dir; George Lucas
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962) Dir; David Lean
IFC Center
ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES (1938) Dir; Michael Curtiz
Nitehawk Cinema
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959) Dir; Alfred Hitchcock
WILLOW (1988) Dir; Ron Howard
Museum of the Moving Image
E. T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (1982) Dir; Steven Spielberg
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977) Dir; Steven Spielberg
Anthology Film Archives
HIGH CRIME (1973) Dir; Enzo G. Castellari
BORN WINNER (1976) Dir; Aldo Lado
CALIBER 9 (1972) Dir; Fernando Di Leo
Today's Pick? I can't help it. I gotta do it. I am as compelled to encourage your attendance for this screening as a young Tattooine farmboy once was in following his dad's Jedisteps in the charge of discovering his own destiny. That kid ultimately, literally, gave his left hand as price for his endeavor. You, on the other hand, need merely cough up 13 spondolahz to bear witness. So your excuse exactly is...?
George Lucas' STAR WARS screens for one show only today at Film Forum as part of their Alec Guinness 100 retrospective. Take your first step into a larger yeah I'm not gonna finish that sentence. I'm staying on target.
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-Joe Walsh
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