July 3rd 2014. Pick of the Day.
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I BELIEVE THAT WE CAN WIN! I BELIEVE THAT WE CAN WIN! I BELIEVE -
Oh, that happened? Um, okay. Hooray world community. Go whoever America's choice is now. Yay next team in contention yeah I'm dropping this Hulu Plus here I come!
Today's ongoing series include the final day of Alec Guinness 100 at Film Forum, An Auteurist History of Film at MoMA, and Big Screen Epics at BAM's newly renovated Harvey Theater. Hie on, my fellow zealots!
Film Forum
A PASSAGE TO INDIA (1984) Dir; David Lean
MoMA
JAWS (1975) Dir; Steven Spielberg
BowTie Chelsea Cinemas
KING KONG (1933) Dirs; Ernest B. Shoedsack & Merian C. Cooper
BAM Cinématek - Harvey Theater
ALIEN (1979) Dir; Ridley Scott
Landmark Sunshine Cinema
WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT? (1988) Dir; Robert Zemeckis
IFC Center
JAWS (1975) Dir; Steven Spielberg
TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (1991) Dir; James Cameron
Today's Pick? I know Film Forum's magnificent trib to screen legend Alec Guinness unspools its last, and Ridley Scott's Freudian space nightmare fills the Harvey Theater's massive screen as well. And I know there are those who feel Robert Zemeckis' wretched, soulless capitalization on earlier, purer movie magic in service of his two-hour commercial for lunchboxes a worthy choice. Some think Roger Moore was the perfect 007. The world's nothing if not sympathetic to topsy-turvyism. But my predilections are drawn this day to a most spectacular specimen of the big screen, one still spoken of in hushed tones, one still regarded with the appropriate quantity of awe, one still copied, sometimes even unsuccessfully rewritten, as all titans find themselves irreplaceable, insurmountable, implacable. And really, anyone who knows me knows I'd never take sides against the 8th Wonder of the World. Whattaya thinkin'?
Ernest B. Shoedsack and Merian C. Cooper's one and only KING KONG screens tonight at the BowTie Chelsea Cinemas as part of their Classic Thursdays series. Twas Willis O'Brien killed Michael Bay. In my perfect world anyway.
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-Joe Walsh
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