August 10th 2014. Pick of the Day.
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Sunday. August. 80 degrees. That's about all I gotta say. You tell me if I've left anything out.
Ongoing series today includes the latter 1/2 of BAM's comprehensive trib to Luis Buñuel, The Great War: A Cinematic Legacy and A Fuller Life at MoMA, and If You Meet Klaus Kinski, Pray For Your Death at Anthology Film Archives. Once more into the spool;
Nitehawk Cinema
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1954) Dir; Don Seigel
Film Forum
BOY MEETS GIRL (1984) Dir; Leos Carax
BAM Cinématek
THE PHANTOM OF LIBERTY (1974) Dir; Luis Buñuel
THE MILKY WAY (1969) Dir; Luis Buñuel
MoMA
THE MYSTERIOUS LADY (1928) Dir; Fred Niblo
THE BIG RED ONE: THE RECONSTRUCTION (1981) Dir; Sam Fuller
HEARTS OF THE WORLD (1918) Dir; D. W. Griffith
Symphony Space
METROPOLIS (1927) Dir; Fritz Lang
Mid-Manhattan Library
MARNIE (1964) Dir; Alfred Hitchcock
AMC Loews Kips Bay 15, AMC Empire 25
BEVERLY HILLS COP (1984) Dir; Martin Brest
Anthology Film Archives
SALT IN THE WOUND (1969) Dir; Tonino Ricci
BUDDY BUDDY (1982) Dir; Billy Wilder
OCTOBER (1928) Dir; Sergei Eisenstein
VENOM (1981) Dir; Piers Haggard
OLD AND NEW (1929) Dir; Sergei Eisenstein
Today's Pick? I'm gonna make it short and sweet. Fritz Lang's METROPOLIS, screening as part of their Classics in HD series, in some sort of Wollstonecraftian hybrid DCP/BluRay mockery of the tech gods, at Symphony Space's Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater. I may utterly regret endorsing this series once I finally attend, but for the moment I'm willing to suspend my cynicism and grant the benefit of my doubt to this sorely under-utilized screening space, in the hopes that they crank up the projection system on a more routine basis. We can work out any quibbles in quality thereafter. Joh Fredersen would agree. And, well, look how well his plan turned out!
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-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.
