July 27th 2014. Pick of the Day.
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Ongoing series today include Origianl Gangsters at IFC Center, Femmes Noirs at Film Forum, Lady in the Dark: Crime Films from Columbia Pictures 1932-57at MoMA, Star Presence on Screen at Museum of the Moving Image, and the Elmore Leonard trib at Anthology Film Archives. Let's go to the format of choice!
IFC Center
HIGH SIERRA (1941) Dir; Raoul Walsh
Nitehawk Cinema
THE DRIVER (1978) Dir; Walter Hill
Film Forum
GUN CRAZY (1949) Dir; Joseph H. Lewis
DETOUR (1945) Dir; Edgar G. Ulmer
A HARD DAY'S NIGHT (1964) Dir; Richard Lester
Symphony Space
PSYCHO (1960) Dir; Alfred Hitchcock
MoMA
MURDER BY CONTRACT (1958) Dir; Irving Lerner
SO DARK THE NIGHT (1946) Dir; Joseph H. Lewis
MY NAME IS JULIA ROSS (1945) Dir; Joseph H. Lewis
Mid-Manhattan Library
VERTIGO (1958) Dir; Alfred Hitchcock
Museum of the Moving Image
AU HASARD BALTHAZAR (1966) Dir; Robert Bresson
THE KING OF COMEDY (1982) Dir; Martin Scorsese
MASCULINE FEMININE (1966) Dir; Jean-Luc Godard
Anthology Film Archives
3:10 TO YUMA (1955) Dir; Delmer Daves
CROWDED PARADISE (1956) Dir; Fred Pressburger
Nitehawk Cinema - 50 Kent Square
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (1963) Dir; Terence Young
Today's Pick? The early screenings of both Walsh's SIERRA and Hill's DRIVER almost provide the requisite inspiration for an early unfurling of the eyelids, but on a Sunday in late July? Ain't gonna. I just went with the pride of Astoria, the Museum of the Moving Image, yesterday, and there really is no other reason for me to forego them today except for my double-dip foreswear. The single most tempting challenge today is the mass transit-reliant Joseph H. Lewis trip bill, starting with the early screening of GUN CRAZY at the Forum, then employing the services of the F train to race to MoMA for both SO DARK THE NIGHT and MY NAME IS JULIA ROSS. If not for the summer finding itself just past its peak, if not for the noble novelty of the outdoor screening, I'd fully endorse such a Cinegeek excursion. However, the combo of slightly-past peak summer day, outdoor screening, and Connery's 007, lays waste to any other challenger. Ask none other than Robert Shaw if anyone can bulwark this sort of juggernaut.
Terence Young's FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, the second entry into the Bond franchise, screens tonight at 50 Kent Avenue, between N11th and N12th streets, courtesy of Williamsburg's own Nitehawk Cinema. I'm shaken. No wait, I'm stirred. Oh hell, I'm just anxiously waiting for tater tots.
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-Joe Walsh
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