August 20th 2014. Pick of the Day.
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New and continuing series today include Red Hollywood and the Blacklist at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and An Auteurist History of Film and The Great War: A Cinematic Legacy at MoMA. The megillah in whole as follows;
Film Forum
GUN CRAZY (1949) Dir; Joseph H. Lewis
THE KILLING (1956) Dir; Stanley Kubrick
Film Society of Lincoln Center
Red Hollywood and the Blacklist
HEAVEN WITH A BARBED WIRE FENCE (1939) Dir; Ricardo Cortez
I STOLE A MILLION (1939) Dir; Frank Tuttle
ROAD GANG (1936) Dir; Louis King
MoMA
RAGING BULL (1980) Dir; Martin Scorsese
The Great War: A Cinematic Legacy
COMRADESHIP (1931) Dir; G. W. Pabst
FOUR SONS (1928) Dir; John Ford
Rumsey Playfield, Central Park
THE WAY WE WERE (1973) Dir; Sydney Pollack
Today's Pick? I know we've got just two last days to catch the noir double-bill at Film Forum, but I did choose them not too long ago whence they screened as part of their Femme Noirs series (plus the beloved FF's been rather generous with the series reprieves lately, so there's an outside chance we'll get another week to indulge). The specially-ticketed trip-bill at the Walter Reade Theater, as part of the Film Society's anti-valentine to McCarthyism, also tempts, and there's only a few days left to attend before it's replaced by their highly-anticipated International Sci-Fi series, and the HUAC shenaniganism is passed to Anthology Film Archives this weekend. MoMA's exceptional observance of the First World War's cinematic footprints also continues to slowly wind down, and like the other aforementioned series I probably should throw some light at these doings. But it's still summer, no matter what the thermometer suggests or the calendar mocks. Goddammit, might I add? So for a second day running I'm choosing a film perhaps less interesting, perhaps not as rarely screened, perhaps not as thematically signifcant as the rest of today's lineup. But it's screening outdoors. And on August 20th, that's plenty justification for me.
Sydney Pollack's THE WAY WE WERE unspools at sunset, between Sheep Meadow and the 72nd Street Cross Drive, at Central Park. Make some memories. Y'know, for the corners of your mind.
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-Joe Walsh
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