September 23rd - 25th: Marxism, B&W Heaven, and Red White and Blue Velvet! Read On!
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Bienvenidos, Stockahz!!! Hallo and welcome back to your new weekly update of all things rep cinema related in your nifty nestle known as New York City! We got a gaggle of goodies on the grid okay I'm killing the cutesy alliteration here! It's one thing to be effusive and enthusiastic regarding your chosen vocation, another entirely to become a lamintaed tour pamphlet. Let's get to the goods, shall we?
New and continuing series this week include Fellini at IFC Center, The Marx Brothers & the Golden Age of Vaudeville at Film Forum, The Associates and Aldrich & Welcome to Metrograph: A to Z at the Metrograph, Modern Matinees: B is For Bogart at MoMA, Woman with a Movie Camera: Female Film Directors Before 1950 at Anthology Film Archives, and the Agnès Varda trib at Museum of the Moving Image. The upcoming bounty be thus!
Friday September 23rd
IFC Center
CITY OF WOMEN (1980) Dir; Federico Fellini
Film Forum
The Marx Brothers & the Golden Age of Vaudeville
ANIMAL CRACKERS (1930) Dir; Victor Heerman
MONKEY BUSINESS (1931) Dir; Norman Z. McLeod
LA NOTTE (1960) Dir; Michelangelo Antonioni
ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS (1957) Dir; Louis Malle
Metrograph
HUSTLE (1975) Dir; Robert Aldrich
4 FOR TEXAS (1963) Dir; Robert Aldrich
MONSIEUR VERDOUX (1946) Dir; Charlie Chaplin
MoMA
Modern Matinees: B is For Bogart
THE MALTESE FALCON (1941) Dir; John Huston
Syndicated
ERASERHEAD (1978) Dir; David Lynch
Anthology Film Archives
Woman with a Movie Camera: Female Film Directors Before 1950
THE HOLY NIGHT (1922) Dir; Elvira Notari
ALICE GUY BLACHE PROGRAM (1906-12) Dir; Alice Guy-Blaché
Nitehawk Cinema
ROBOCOP (1987) Dir; Paul Verhoeven
Today's Pick? The kickoff to a week-long trib to the Brothers Marx, the twin-bill of ANIMAL CRACKERS and MONKEY BUSINESS, their second and third features, screening as brand-new restorations at the Film Forum! The former might be the far more anarchic than the latter, hence the more representative of their brand of upheaval, but BIZ is no slouch whence repping the quizzical quartet, and provides one of only two pairings with the promising Thelma Todd, Marx foil extraordinarre before Maggie Dumont took that throne permanently post-DUCK SOUP. Plus, you get the secret password. Hint: it's the name of a yeah you followed me all the way to the end of this sentence on this one, huh?
Saturday September 24th
IFC Center
CITY OF WOMEN (1980) Dir; Federico Fellini
Nitehawk Cinema
DOG DAY AFTERNOON (1975) Dir; Sidney Lumet
ROBOCOP (1987) Dir; Paul Verhoeven
Film Forum
The Marx Brothers & the Golden Age of Vaudeville
DUCK SOUP (1933) Dir; Leo McCarey
A NIGHT AT THE OPERA (1935) Dir; Sam Wood
LA NOTTE (1960) Dir; Michelangelo Antonioni
ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS (1957) Dir; Louis Malle
Syndicated
BLUE VELVET (1986) Dir; David Lynch
Mid-Manhattan Library
CACTUS FLOWER (1969) Dir;Gene Saks
Anthology Film Archives
Woman with a Movie Camera: Female Film Directors Before 1950
THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED (1925) Dir; Lotte Reiniger
DEATH IS A CARESS (1949) Dir; Edith Carlmar
MERRILY WE GO TO HELL (1932) Dir; Dorothy Arzner
Metrograph
A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (1946) Dir; Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
MIKEY AND NICKY (1976) Dir; Elaine May
HUSTLE (1975) Dir; Robert Aldrich
Today's Pick? No contest: my second fave film all-time, Powell & Pressburger's A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH, unspools at the Metrograph its digital 1's and 0's in its sparkling new DCP iteration, showcasing the first of the great collaborations between the filmmakers and legendary DP Jack Cardiff (THE RED SHOES, THE AFRICAN QUEEN). Perhaps the best and biggest valentine to the human spirit ever filmed. Try me.
Sunday September 25th
Film Forum
HORSE FEATHERS (1932) Dir; Norman Z. McCleod
A DAY AT THE RACES (1937) Dir; Sam Wood
LA NOTTE (1960) Dir; Michelangelo Antonioni
ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS (1957) Dir; Louis Malle
IFC Center
CITY OF WOMEN (1980) Dir; Federico Fellini
Nitehawk Cinema
DOG DAY AFTERNOON (1975) Dir; Sidney Lumet
Syndicated
BLUE VELVET (1986) Dir; David Lynch
Museum of the Moving Image
LE BONHEUR (1965) Dir; Angès Varda
Mid-Manhattan Library
DIANE (1955) Dir; David Miller
Metrograph
VERA CRUZ (1954) Dir; Robert Aldrich
AUTUMN LEAVES (1956) Dir; Robert Aldrich
A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (1946) Dir; Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
Anthology Film Archives
Woman with a Movie Camera: Female Film Directors Before 1950
LOIS WEBER PROGRAM (1913-16) Dir; Lois Weber
THE SEASHELL AND THE CLERGYMAN (1928) Dir; Germaine Dulac
KNOWING MEN (1930) Dir; Elinor Glyn
Today's Pick? It's been in the ether lately, mostly because it's celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, but also because there's always something David Lynch about the cultural atmosphere, and we are never far from referencing his finest, most indelible work. BLUE VELVET projects digitally at yet another of our newest bar/restaurant/movie theater start-ups, Bushwick Brooklyn's Syndicated, and if there isn't a deal on PBR's during the screening it'll only mean there's hope for humanity yet. Fuck yeh.
Other notable screenings in the coming week include Karin Swonström's THE GIRL IN TAILS (1926), Monday at Anthology Film Archives; Martin Scorsese's gangster classic GOODFELLAS (1990) , Tuesday at the newly-christened Cinépolis; John Murray Anderson's early two-strip Technicolor Big Band bonanza KING OF JAZZ (1930), Wednesday at Film Forum; and Raoul Walsh's incredibly entertining nutso trucker melodrama THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT (1940), Thursday at MoMA.
For more info on these and all NYC's rep film screenings in September '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!
