December 12th 2012. Pick Of The Day.
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The Film Forum's tribute to Jean-Louis Trintignant continues today with a pair of Romy Schneider co-starrers, which is perfectly okay by this guy. LE COMBAT DANS L'ILE finds Schneider baffled by her rich industrailist husband's baffling mood swings and penchant for storing military grade weapons in their closet. LE TRAIN sees our leads hiding out in depserate fear on a freight car carrying them away from Nazi occupied Europe. And STILL the guy never smiled? Not my Pick.
The Von Sydow toenail painting proceeds apace as BAM's tribute to Tall Maxie today offers THE NEW WORLD, a follow-up to his and co-star Liv Ullmann's THE EMIGRANTS. Our cheery new neighbors settle into their adopted home whilst fending off pesky Native Americans and an incovenient Civil War. A frothy cup, but also not my Pick today.
Nope. Today I choose a flick I've never seen, but seek to remedy that sin tonight as the 92YTribeca rolls out another entry in its Beyond Leone series. This one featuring a suitably dirty, scabrous anti-hero who begins the tale with his own beating, hanging, and BARBECUING! Whether it's Louisiana or Kansas style is yet to be ascertained.
Z-grade Spaghetti Western star Tony Anthony began his career producing the short film THE BOY WHO OWNED A MELEPHANT. So of course greatness lay just ahead. Partnering somehow with the dubious Allen Klein in the early 60's, they joined forces to cash in on the Spag West craze and the Leone/Eastwood films in particular. Substituting "The Man With No Name" with their own "The Stranger", their initial offering, A STRANGER IN TOWN, was a hit and spawned three sequels, while the Eastwood/Leone series lasted only three flicks. Hah, losers!
The fourth in that series screens tonight, a seemingly bugfuck mashup made more than a decade after the first, during the mid-70's streeeeeetching of the Spag West formula as thin as prop glass. Featuring the aforementioned Act One brutalizing of our lead, the film then finds him defending a princess against Monguls, Vikings, and a witch's curse just y'know in case that wasn't enough.
How can I pass up GET MEAN, screening tonight at 7:30pm at the 92YTribeca? This is crack cocaine to a film nut such as moi, and psychologically may actually be worse than crack cocaine. Hope to see you at the screening!
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