August 26th 2016. Pick of the Day.
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Well, one more August seems to be slowly inching, crawling, begging for death like a stranded plane crash survivor in the depths of the Sahara, toward its ultimate, if perhaps untimely end. Which sorta make it the perfect month for my annual celebration of my birth. You do the math/metaphorizin'.
I can't complain, really, and never do. I love celebrating one more spin 'round the bright yellow ball of gas, I love living in NYC, I love the insanely convenient access to our wonderful and still-burgeoning rep film circuit to which I am privy. Most of all, though, I love the people in my life. NYC provides us NY'ers with peeps from all walks of life, with experiences different and philosophies sometimes curious, often divergent. The wonderful thing is that we remain NY'ers, and the hope is that perhaps at some point, we will all consider ourselves Americans because of bold, ugly, cruel, poetic and merciful social experiments like the one that houses the Empire State Building.
So 'ponst the eve of my 47th revolution round the galaxy here be my listings, and my Pick. New and ongoing series include Return of the Double Feature at Film Forum, Modern Matinees: Summer with Judy Holliday and Gaumont: Cinéma Pour Tout Le Monde at MoMA, and the eternally swank Cabaret Cinema at the Rubin Museum. The approaching apepnuemia be thus;
Film Forum
PSYCHO (1960) Dir; Alfed Hitchcock
REPULSION (1966) Dir; Roman Polanski
MoMA
Modern Matinees: Summer with Judy Holliday
A THOUSAND CLOWNS (1965) Dir; Fred Coe
Gaumont: Cinéma Pour Tout Le Monde
TOO LATE FOR LOVE (1959) Dir; Henri Decoin
GREED IN THE SUN (1964) Dir; Henri Verneuil
Syndicated
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1973) Dir; Mel Brooks
THE PRODUCERS (1968) Dir; Mel Brooks
Hunts Point Park, Bronx
THE DARK CRYSTAL (1982) Dir; Jim Henson
Lincoln Center Plaza
AMADEUS (1984) Dir; Milos Forman
Rubin Museum
THE NIGHT PORTER (1974) Dir; Liliana Cavini
IFC Center
TOTAL RECALL (1990) Dir; Paul Verhoeven
Nitehawk Cinema
EASY MONEY (1983) Dir; James Signorelli
Today's Pick? Oh let's just get to it. How can I turn down Mozart on film in public?
Milos Forman's AMADEUS, one of the few times I believe the Academy got it right as regards Best Picture, screens in the open summer air at Lincoln Center Plaza as the sun craters and our heartstrings swell. As summer '16 wanes, outdoor screenings come to a close. Trust me, this is the class of the lot.
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!
