January 29th 2016. Pick of the Day.
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Oh, my old, weathered, wizened, worrisome foe who goes by the none too popular monicker of January. How fleet your reign has proved this year. How unwelcome your constant 31 day sense of dread remains. How glad we will all collectively be whence your annual interment, however temporary, commences. It also means that your despicable cousin, otherwise referred to as the NFL, also soonly meets its deserving, if also temporary end. Spring and Summer '16 loom just around the bend, we have merely to survive you and your successor, the perhaps even more scabrous February, although it boasts the mitigating circumstance of having only 28 days. Except this year it gets the extra Leap Year 24 hours. So my guard rests not. But my ebullience regarding the rep circuit's kinetic activity waxes.
New and continuing series this day include Film Forum's trib to The Coen Brothers, MoMA's trib to both silent-era Western Pioneer William S. Hart and influential choreographer Jack Cole, mother/daughter trib Jane and Charlotte Forever at the Walter Reade Theater, the third leg of AFA's trib to American International Pictures, the Justice in Film series at the New York Historical Society, and the leg-room luxurious Cabaret Cinema at the Rubin Museum. The antiquated antics be thus;
Film Forum
BARTON FINK (1991) Dirs; Joel & Ethan Coen
MoMA
Modern Matinees: A Western Pioneer
THE TIGER MAN (1918) Dir; William S. Hart
THREE FOR THE SHOW (1955) Dir; H. C. Potter
MEET ME AFTER THE SHOW (1951) Dir; Richard Sale
Film Society of Lincoln Center
LA PIRATE (1984) Dir; Jacques Doillon
Anthology Film Archives
American International Pictures, Part Three
SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN (1970) Dir; Gordon Hessler
THE FOOD OF THE GODS (1976) Dir; Bert I. Gordon
New York Historical Society
Justice in Film
DR. STRANGELOVE, or HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (1964) Dir; Stanley Kubrick
Landmark Jersey Loews
A FACE IN THE CROWD (1957) Dir; Elia Kazan
Rubin Museum of Art
BICYCLE THIEVES (1948) Dir; Vittorio de Sica
Landmark Sunshine Cinema
THE THING (1982) Dir; John Carpenter
IFC Center
VIDEODROME (1982) Dir; David Cronenberg
Today's Pick? So much to choose from this day, so few slots. One, to be precise. The midnight Cronenberg & Carpenter tempt mightily. The celebration of William S. Hart, a man crucial to the evolution of the Hollywood western, also draws. Kubrick's STRANGELOVE is a regular occurence in our movie-mad burg, but always begs selection. I just chose the AIP series yesterday, so I gotta avoid the double-dip. Which leads me to a choice delightful. Something recent, just within my 25-year cutoff requisite. I haven't sen it in ages, and it screens in its native, glorious 35mm format. So let's all prep for a venture into the life of the mind, shall we?
Joel and Ethan Coen's Palm D'or-winning BARTON FINK unspools today as part of the Film Forum's trib to the career of The Coen Brothers. Come to think of it, I've got a lot of stories...
For more info on these and all NYC's rep film screenings in January '16 click on the interactive calendar on the upper right hand side of the page. 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 soon with new Picks 'n perks, til then safe, sound, make sure the next knucklehead is too!
P. S. Winter's icy grip seems to have finally taken hold of our fair city, and believe it or not some of our fellow NY'ers have still yet to be made whole in the wake of the 2012 storm. Should you be feeling charitable please visit the folks at OccupySandy.net, follow their hammer-in-hand efforts to restore people's lives, and donate/volunteer if you have the inclination and availability. Be a collective mensch, Stockahz!
