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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
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.