August 13th 2016. Pick of the Day.
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There are heat waves, there are sweltering heat waves, there are punishing pounding heat waves, there are heat waves that sometimes feel, to borrow a line from LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, that the city has become "the sun's anvil". Then there's this current bleak streak, which owes more to that ep of the Twilight Zone where the planet starts spinning further and further toward the sun. The twist in that gem? She discovers...oh hell, I'm not gonna spoil a blessed 22m of TZ for anyone, ANYONE, HELLO!, who hasn't yet seen it (HELLOOOOOOO?!?!?!). Suffice to say it suggests cooler temps are just around the corner, and as with anyhting in this world, we should be careful what we wish for in the face of what we've got. Sermon concluded. The planet's actually drifting away from the sun at the end of that episode I couldn't resist HOW HAVE YOU NOT SEEN THAT TWILIGHT ZONE EP?!?!?!
Ahem.
New and ongoing seris this day include the summer-long Fellini trib at IFC Center, See it Big: The 70mm Show! at Astoria's glorious Museum of the Moving Image, the always welcome reoccurence of the Silent Clowns Film Series at the Library for the Performing Arts, Gaumont: Cinéma Pour Tout le Monde at MoMA, and the excellent and long-deserved Joe Dante at the Movies at BAM Cineematek. The flickering foofaraw be thus;
IFC Center
AMARCORD (1973) Dir; Federico Fellini
Nitehawk Cinema
THE GOONIES (1985) Dir; Richard Donner
NEAR DARK (1987) Dir; Kathryn Bigelow
Film Forum
SUDDEN FEAR (1952) Dir; David Miller
Museum of the Moving Image
THE WILD BUNCH (1969) Dir; Sam Peckinpah
Mid-Manhattan Library
THREE AMIGOS (1986) Dir; John Landis
Library for the Performing Arts
SO THIS IS PARIS? (1926) Dir; Leo McCarey
MoMA
Gaumont: Cinéma Pour Tout le Monde
CITY OF WOMEN (1980) Dir; Federico Fellini
THE TROUT (1982) Dir; Joseph Losey
St. Mary's Park, Bronx
HIGH SOCIETY (1956) Dir; Charles Walters
BAM Cinématek
THE HOWLING (1981)/ LISA AND THE DEVIL (1973) Dirs; Joe Dante/Mario Bava
IFC Center
THE ABYSS (1989) Dir; James Cameron
Today's Pick? The double bill of Dante's HOWLING and Bava's LISA, screening as part of the long overdue trib Joe Dante at the Movies! I'd enumerate uponst each screening's value and explain why I'm choosing the double bill at BAM, but look, it's hot. I'm tired and so are you. I'm gonna pass out to a Howard Hawks flick.
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!
