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So it's only been two months since yours truly got the hell outta dodge. BOY, are you cats exacting! Well look, begrudge me all ya want, I'm hightailing it out of this bescrabbled burg for a 2-day Clamfest at the Jersey Shore. I will muse heavily upon your non-mini-vacationing envy whilst scarfing down various fried delicacies, of both the food variety and the no-questions-asked iteration. As it benefits me not to abscond without even an inkling of the weekend's doings on NYC's rep film circuit, I will provide you once more with the bulk-buy version of the daily picks, as well as the series overview, which goes a little something like this; Original Gangsters at IFC Center, the Luis Buñuel trib at BAM Cinématek, the Silent Clowns' Mary Pickford series at the Library for the Performing Arts, See It Big! Hollywood Melodrama at Museum of the Moving Image, Lady in the Dark: Crime Films from Columbia Pictures 1932-57 at MoMA, If You Meet Klaus Kinski, Pray for your Death at Anthology Film Archives, and Classics in HD at Symphony Space. The next two days of rep circuit tomfoolery, as well as my respective Picks, looks thus;

 

 

SATURDAY August 2nd

 

IFC Center

WHITE HEAT (1949) Dir; Raoul Walsh

EL TOPO (1970) Dir; Alejandro Jorodowsky

 

Nitehawk Cinema

HAROLD AND MAUDE (1971) Dir; Hal Ashby

MEMORIES WITHIN MISS AGGIE (1974) Dir; Gerard Damiano

 

Film Forum

DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944) Dir; Billy Wilder

 

BAM Cinématek

BELLE DE JOUR (1967) Dir; Luis Buñuel

 

Mid-Manhattan Library

THE RAIN PEOPLE (1969) Dir; Francis Ford Coppola

 

Library for the Performing Arts

STELLA MARIS (1918) Dir; Marshall Neilan

 

Museum of the Moving Image

ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (1955) Dir; Douglas Sirk

 

MoMA

MAN IN THE DARK (1953) Dir; Lew Landers

GILDA (1946) Dir; Charles Vidor

THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI (1947) Dir; Orson Welles

 

Anthology Film Archives

SALT IN THE WOUND (1969) Tonino Ricci

VAMPYR (1931) Dir; Carl Theodore Dreyer

DAY OF WRATH (1943) Dir; Carl Theodore Dreyer

A BULLET FOR THE GENERAL (1966) Dir; Damiano Damiani

THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (1927) Dir; Carl Theodore Dreyer

 

Landmark sunshine Cinema

NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959) Dir; Alfred Hitchcock

 

Today's Pick: STELLA MARIS at the Library for the Performing Arts, the last 35mm unspooling in the Silent Clowns' exceptional Mary Pickford series. Because live piano accompaniment. Aw hell, because Mary Pickford, who'm I kiddin'?

 

SUNDAY August 3rd

 

IFC Center

WHITE HEAT (1949) Dir; Raoul Walsh

 

Nitehawk Cinema

HAROLD AND MAUDE (1971) Dir; Hal Ashby

 

Film Forum

DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944) Dir; Billy Wilder

 

BAM Cinématek

BELLE DE JOUR (1967) Dir; Luis Buñuel

 

Mid-Manhattan Library

THE BIRDS (1963) Dir; Alfred Hitchcock

 

Symphony Space

LA STRADA (1965) Dir; Federico Fellini

 

Museum of the Moving Image

CHINATOWN (1974) Dir; Roman Polanski

 

MoMA

THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI (1947) Dir; Orson Welles

DEAD RECKONING (1947) Dir; John Cromwell

 

Anthology Film Archives

ORDET (1955) Dir; Carl Theodore Dreyer

A BULLET FOR THE GENERAL (1966) Dir; Damiano Damiani

DAY OF WRATH (1943) Dir; Carl Theodore Dreyer

CREATURE WITH THE BLUE HAND (1967) Dir; Alfred Vohrer

 

Museum of the Moving Image

SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER (1960) Dir; Joseph L. Mankewicz

 

Nitehawk Cinema - 50 Kent Avenue

THREE AMIGOS (1986) Dir; John Landis

Today's Pick: MoMA's double-bill of Orson Welles' THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI and John Cromwell's DEAD RECKONING. Because crime film retrospectives pay. Big time.

 

For more info on these and all NYC's classic film screenings in August '14 click on the interactive calendar on the upper right hand side of the page. For the monthly overview and other audio tomfoolery check out the podcast, and follow me on SoundCloud! For reviews of contemporary cinema and my streaming habits (keep it clean!) check out my Letterboxd page. And be sure to follow me on both Facebook, where I provide further info and esoterica on the rep film circuit and star birthdays, and Twitter, where I provide a daily feed for the day's screenings and other blathery. Back tomorrow with a brand new Pick, til then safe, sound, make sure the next knucklehead is too. Excelsior, Stockhaz!

 

-Joe Walsh

 

JoeW@NitrateStock.net

 

P. S. Even though we've fully entered the summer months and therefore not often as mindful of the displaced, some of our fellow NY'ers are yet to be made whole since Hurricane Sandy hit nearly two years ago. Check in with the good folks at Occupy Sandy to see if you can't still volunteer/donate to our neighbors in need. Be a mensch.