July 24th 2014. Pick of the Day.
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Alright, I ain't gonna lie. I'm stumped for a header to today's post, and I'm actually looking around my apartment for ideas. What do I see? Stacks of old flyers from Film Forum, MoMA and BAM, a DVD collection so massive it should be splitting the rent, various delivery menus, quickie learn-a-language manuals, a ZIP drive circa 2000 A.D. , my Puma Baskets, a jar of fortune cookie fortunes, and an air freshener I'm pretty sure I bought just last week. Wait. What year is this?
Well, whaddaya know! The header writes itself! I gotta toss more junk around my apartment, it's just so much easier.
Ongoing series today include Femmes Noirs at Film Forum, An Auteurist History of Film at MoMA, the Luis Buñuel retrospective at BAM Cinématek, and the Elmore Leonard trib at Anthology Film Archives. The precocious parfait as follows;
Film Forum
A HARD DAY'S NIGHT (1964) Dir; Richard Lester
THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI (1945) Dir; Orson Welles
SCARLET STREET (1945) Dir; Fritz Lang
MoMA
TAXI DRIVER (1976) Dir; Martin Scorsese
BowTie Chelsea Cinemas
BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935) Dir; James Whale
BAM Cinématek
THE BRUTE (1952) Dir; Luis Buñuel
Anthology Film Archives
3:10 TO YUMA (1957) Dir; Delmer Daves
Today's Pick? I just chose Film Forum's fantastic Femmes Noirs series two days ago, and Scorsese's masterpiece of modern alienation and scoptophilia is always worthy of a big screen viewing, but it's thankfully no rare screening. Delmer Daves' YUMA might be the quintessential Elmore Leonard western, but it does have one more upcoming screening, and besides I don't think I've shown a lotta love to the Buñuel series at BAM so far this month. So, to put it simply...
Luis Buñuel's THE BRUTE unspools in glorious 35mm B&W tonight at BAM Cinématek as part of their retrospective of the hugely influential filmmaker's body of work. Never seen it. That's why I'm picking it. Looking forward to it.
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-Joe Walsh
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