July 31st 2014. Pick of the Day.
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Oh hell, it's the end of the month. Let's just get to it.
Ongoing series today include Femmes Noirs at Film Forum, An Auteurist History of Film and Lady in the Dark: Crime Films from Columbia Pictures 1932-57 at MoMA, and the Luis Buñuel retrospective at BAM Cinématek. Once more into the 4-perf breach;
Film Forum
A HARD DAY'S NIGHT (1964) Dir; Richard Lester
MILDRED PIERCE (1945) Dir; Michael Curtiz
THE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS (1946) Dir; Lewis Milestone
TOO LATE FOR TEARS (1949) Dir; Byron Haskin
MoMA
ANNIE HALL (1977) Dir; Woody Allen
SO DARK THE NIGHT (1946) Dir; Joseph H. Lewis
ESCAPE IN THE FOG (1945) Dir; Budd Boetticher
BowTie Chelsea Cinema
QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE (1958) Dir; Edward Bernds
Anthology Film Archives
THE PARSON'S WIDOW (1921) Dir; Carl Theodore Dreyer
BAM Cinématek
THE YOUNG ONE (1960) Dir; Luis Buñuel
Brooklyn Bridge Park
BEETLEJUICE (1988) Dir; Unknown
Today's Pick? I'm cutting to the chase. Michael Keaton, essaying one of the all-time indelible perfs, that of the once-and-only cinematic bio-exorcist BEETLEJUICE, unspooling tonight at sunset in Brooklyn Bridge Park. I'm not sure exactly who helmed this but DAMN, do I miss him.
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-Joe Walsh
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