August 2014! The Great War, the Hollywood Blacklist, and the Last Movies Under the Stars! Plus the New Podcast and Today's Pick! For the Record!
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August '14 is finally, most regrettably upon us. Regrettably not for any demerit of its own, but for its rank on the calendar, heralding increasingly colder temps and dead leaf-ridden lawns. So let's blank our memories of these unfortunate perennial happenstances and instead celebrate the little slice of summer that remains, shan't we?
The next 31 days are a rep film junkie's delight, offering both a WWI program and a Sam Fuller trib at MoMA, two-count-'em-two series dedicated to the Hollywood blacklist, and the last remaining outdoor screenings, which include two Hitchcock flicks, two by Kubrick, and a chance to agonize alongside Terry Malloy in his chosen milieu; the docks. Pass this up at your own peril, Johnny Friendly remembers mugs what sez no.
So dig in to the new interactive August calendar on the upper right hand side of the page, and listen in to the new podcast on the slightly lower upper right hand side of the page. And for the record, my pick today is the Thelma Schoonmaker-Powell intro'd screening of BLACK NARCISSUS at the Rubin Museum , as part of their wonderful Cabaret Cinema series. And, as always, be sure to like the Nitrate Stock Facebook page, follow me on Twitter @nitratestock, and just generally be groovy with each other and the rest of the world during these frictious and fractious times. Movies ain't the most important thing in the world, to be sure, but they can help to lift our spirits and focus us on what is important. Excelsior, Knux!
-Joe Walsh
