June 14th 2016. Pick of the Day.
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Continuing series this day include Genre is a Woman at Film Forum, Around the World in Five Restorations at BAM Cinématek, Universal Studios: Restorations and Rediscoveries, 1928-37 at MoMA, and the object of my current concurrent intrigue and scorn, the Brian De Palma fete at the Metrograph. The flickering fandango be thus;
Film Forum
FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH (1982) Dir; Amy Heckerling
WANDA (1971) Dir; Barbara Loden
STREETS (1990) Dir; Katt Shea
BURY ME AN ANGEL (1972) Dir; Barbara Peeters
BAM Cinematék
Around the World in Five Restorations
THE CONFORMIST (1970) Dir; Bernardo Bertolucci
MoMA
Universal Studios: Restorations and Rediscoveries, 1928-37
KING OF JAZZ (1930) Dir; John Murray Anderson
Metrograph
CASUALTIES OF WAR (1989) Dir; Brian De Palma
Carroll Park, Brooklyn
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (1961) Dir; Blake Edwards
Syndicated
SOYLENT GREEN (1973) Dir; Richard Fleischer
Today's Pick? The quartet at Film Forum seems untoppable, and yet it looks like I've chosen my beloved FF to a disproportionate degree of late. This happens when the heart leads and acumen follows, so I'll take a very brief break. The resto of what many consider Bertolucci's first masterpiece is a hard offer to turn down, but it seems a grandiose downer of a way to celebrate he rep film circuit in summer. It really comes down to two choices, and the hard one to shed is the adap of Capote's BREAKFAST, which screens outdoors in what is increasingly an earlier ritual every year. Were weather predics of a balmier bent this eve, I'd probably suggest a date with Ms. Gollightly. And in public no less. But actually, I find it a more appetizing prospect to focus on a film in which the future of our food supply is matched by the current state of our food supply, as a dystopian Sci-Fi classic unspools this eve in a recently opened venue that follows in the spirit pioneered in this burg by my fave theater, the Nitehawk Cinema. I cannot imagine a geater irony than chowing down while watching this future set eco-horror. I just wish kale chips were on the menu. What a missed opportunity!
Richard Fleischer's SOYLENT GREEN screens this eve at Bushwick's very own Syndicated, a venue that offers and celebrates craft cocktails, gastropub fare, and sordid Grindhouse superb. Spolier Alert!: Phil Hartman never starred in the sequels.
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P. S. Summer seems to have finally graced our fair metropolis, but milder weather aside 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!
