The Nitrate Stock ClamFest Weekend Getaway! Again! This is not a giveaway contest! Are you fundamentally incapable of understanding another person's vacation? G'wan, call the Consumer Protection Bureau!!! The deep-friers will get me far faster than you!!!
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Oh fried everything, how do I love thee let me count the yeah don't cut the line I'm waiting for my Corned Beef n' Cabbage Eggroll. Don't make a bad guy outta me.
Yes, Stockahz, I miss you all too. Tremendously so. It's been a struggle to maintain some consistency with this website over the last few months, but I wanna make sure I provide, at the very least, the essential info to keep you, the rep film circuit public, but more importantly my precious readers, with the full skinny at yer fingertips. The odd bribe here and there hasn't hurt either. Wait, did I say bribe? I meant graft. Hang on, lemme head to Webster.com...
So to today's point. I'm taking a much-needed overnight VayCay to that most sacred spot I make pilgrimage to every August, one of the very few reasons this Bronx Boy would ever venture into New Jersey. Yes, True Believers, I'm jumping on the ferry and diving head and feet first into the annual Clamfest! And to those who will deem that anatomically impossible, you haven't seen me at Clamfest.
My debauched dietary delvings aside, my real concern is providing you, my loyal cult member, the exacts about this weekend's rep film offerings. My second concern is having a defibrillator at the ready, which could very easily leapfrog into 1st concern, depending on whether they have those Corned Beef n' Cabbage Egg Rolls again, but for the moment it's YOU SWEET YOU!!!
So with heartfelt abandon and whatever acumen you might assume I possess, here are my Picks for the next 3 days. Any gripes you might have regarding my choices? Forward them to Gov. Christie. He's taking calls.
Friday August 5th 2016
Film Forum
ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS (1957) Dir; Louis Malle
MoMA
Modern Matinees: Summer with Judy Holliday
PHFFFT! (1954) Dir; Mark Robson
Gaumont: Cinéma pour tout le monde
LES AMANTS DE MONTPARNASSE (1958) Dir; Max Ophüls
ANTOINE ET ANTOINETTE (1947) Dir; Jacques Becker
BAM Cinématek
GREMLINS (1984) Dir; Joe Dante
Metrograph
Dim All the Lights: Disco at the Movies
THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY (1978) Dir; Robert Klane
KING OF NEW YORK (1990) Dir; Abel Ferrara
Williamsburg Oval, Bronx
JAWS (1975) Dir; Steven Spielberg
John Paul Jones Park, Brooklyn
AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN (1982) Dir; Taylor Hackford
Museum of the Moving Image
SPARTACUS (1960) Dir; Stanley Kubrick
Anthology Film Archives
Essential Cinema
IVAN THE TERRIBLE PARTS 1 /7 2 (1942-46) Dir; Sergei Eisenstein
Rubin Museum
FELLINI SATYRICON (1969) Dir; Federico Fellini
Nitehawk Cinema
FASCINATION (1979) Dir; Jean Rollin
Today's Pick? Kubrick's SPARTACUS, the slave epic that eventually led to the liberation of hundreds of Blacklisted screenwriters. It screens in its native widescreen format, on celluloid, at what might be NYC's finest rep venue, Astoria's Museum of the Moving Image. Words will never fully do justice regarding my love for this joint. So just swipe yer Metrocard and discover for yourself. There'll never be a better opportinuty.
Saturday August 6th 2016
Nitehawk Cinema
THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY (1966) Dir; Sergio Leone
Film Forum
ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS (1957) Dir; Louis Malle
Metrograph
Dim All the Lights: Disco at the Movies
SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (1978) Dir; John Badham
NIGHTHAWKS (1978) Dir; Ron Peck
Mid-Manhattan Library
CADDYSHACK (1980) Dir; Harold Ramis
Museum of the Moving Image
KHARTOUM (1966) Dir; Basil Dearden
SPARTACUS (1960) Dir; Stanley Kubrick
MoMA
Gaumont: Cinéma pour tout le monde
PERSONAL COLUMN (1939) Dir; Robert Siodmak
HATRED (1938) Dir; Robert Siodmak
Anthology Film Archives
Essential Cinema
BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (1927) Dir; Sergei Eisenstein
STRIKE (1928) Dir; Sergei Eisenstein
St. Mary's Park, Bronx
PARIS BLUES (1961) Dir; Martin Ritt
BAM Cinématek
GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH (1989) Dir; Joe Dante
Nitehawk Cinema
FASCINATION (1979) Dir; Jean Rollin
My Pick? Easy. My fave Western of all-time unspools this afternoon, and tempts so mightily that I would not only consider a return trip to the 5 boroughs just to attend, but also actually WAKING UP BEFORE 10 AM! Not even jury duty can achieve this feat!
Sergio Leone's THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY, my fave western all-time, meets my fave root beer/tater tots combo all-time at the Nitehawk Cinema. You have to wake up very early in the morning to avoid Tuco Benedito Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez. And if you mis him, you etter hope he doesn't know it.
Sunday August 7th 2016
Nitehawk Cinema
THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY (1966) Dir; Sergio Leone
Film Forum
ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS (1957) Dir; Louis Malle
Metrograph
TEN MINUTES TO LIVE (1932) Dir; Oscar Michaeux
Dim All the Lights: Disco at the Movies
CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC (1980) Dir; Nancy Walker
Museum of the Moving Image
SPARTACUS (1960) Dir; Stanley Kubrick
KHARTOUM (1966) Dir; Basil Dearden
Anthology Film Archives
Essential Cinema
OCTOBER (1928) Dir; Sergei Eisenstein
OLD AND NEW (1929) Dir; Sergei Eisenstein
MoMA
Gaumont: Cinéma pour tout le monde
GRADUATE FIRST (1978) Dir; Maurice Pialat
My Pick? Nancy Walker's CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC, screening as part of the series Dim All the Lights: Disco at the Movies at our newest and brightest rep venue, the LES's Metrograph! Why? 'Cause it's summer. 'Cause it's one of the few films pre-80's directed by a woman. 'Cause Bruce Jenner. Lok, is there anything as absloutely bugfuck on the sked today? Don't pass up this chance to witness folly writ so large in the format intended!
And that's that. Now, on to the deep fried corn. On the cob. If you never hear from me again, it's been an honor. But really, I'm okay going out over deep-fried corn on the cob. My lawyer has all the paprs drawn up.
Also, I'm re-thinking the site's format and the frequency of my posts, so you may not hear as much from me as I've provided over the past 4 years. But I will post. I will keep the callie updated. I promise to restart the podcast in a different format. What I mean to say is my devotion to the rep film circuit and its devotees and to all of you who've supported this site will wane not a jot. I live and breathe film. And I'll continue to prove it. Count on me.
For more info on these and all NYC's rep film screenings in August '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. Summer's canine dusk-til-dawn's have soundly parked themselves over our fair metropolis like the giant saucers from INDEPENDENCE DAY, but warmer weather notwithstanding 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!
