July 10th 2014. Pick of the Day.
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Before we get to the day's doings on the rep film circuit, let's wish a very Happy Birthday to a most special individual, without whom the appropriate tech and power might not have existed to emower the spread of film at the turn of the last century. To Nikola Tesla. From an eternally grateful human race.
Well, hell, ya didn't think I was talkin' about Edison, didj'ya?
Ongoing series today include Time Regained: Cinema's Present Perfect at IFC Center, An Auteurist History of Film at MoMA, The Elmore Leonard trib at Anthology Film Archives, and The Deuce at the Nitehawk Cinema. The kino kerfuffle as follows;
Film Forum
A HARD DAY'S NIGHT (1964) Dir; Richard Lester
IFC Center
ROPE (1948) Dir; Alfred Hitchcock
RASHOMON (1950) Dir; Akira Kurosawa
THE SET-UP (1949) Dir; Robert Wise
MoMA
THE MAGIC FLUTE (1975) Dir; Ingmar Bergman
BowTie Chelsea Cinema
ATTACK OF THE 50-FT. WOMAN (1958) Dir; Nathan H. Juran
Anthology Film Archives
THE TALL T (1957) Dir; Budd Boetticher
HOMBRE (1967) Dir; Martin Ritt
Brookly Bridge Park
DUCK SOUP (1933) Dir; Leo McCarey
Nitehawk Cinema
S. O. S. - SCREW ON THE SCREEN (1975) Dir; Jim Buckley
Today's Pick? Yes, the Fab 4 continue their residency on W. Houston street, yes AFA's Elmore Leonard retro kicks off with a fantastic bill this evening, and yes, IFC Center's excellent series devoted to youth and time in the cinema screens its last tonight, but hey! You think I'm taking sides against Freedonia? Didn't you see how that worked out for Ambassador Trentino?
The venerable Rufus T. Firefly presides once more over his nation's anarchic warmongering shenanigans as Leo McCarey's DUCK SOUP screens at Brooklyn Bridge Park tonight at Sunset. It's too late to back out of attending, I've already paid a month's rent on the field.
No? Okay, how 'bout this? Stack your park detritus waist high and you won't need any pants. Wait! Stack it neck high and you'll qualify as a small business in Brooklyn!
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-Joe Walsh
P. S. Even though we've fully entered 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.
