August 13th 2016. Pick of the Day.

New York City's premiere resource for classic film screenings in the metropolitan area. Offering reviews, recommendations, venues and a host of links keeping classic film and the silver screens alive.

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

Fellini

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

See it Big: The 70mm Show!

THE WILD BUNCH (1969) Dir; Sam Peckinpah

 

Mid-Manhattan Library

THREE AMIGOS (1986) Dir; John Landis

 

Library for the Performing Arts

Silent Clowns Film Series

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

Joe Dante at the Movies

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!

 

JoeW@NitrateStock.net

 

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!