May 19th-25th: Makeshift Twofers from Walter Hill & Michelangelo Antonioni, and Cinema's Greatest Sleepwalker! Snooze On, Stockahz!
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So, let's just agree to not talk about anything extra-curricular and focus on our preferred art form and its doings this week. Agreed?
Ok.
New and continuing series this week include Three Favorites Selected by Aziz Anzari and Edward Yang at Metrograph; Immigrant Songs at the Quad Cinema; Il Bello Marcello at the Film Society of Lincoln Center; Modern Matinees: Mr. Cary Grant at MoMA; Peak Performances at BAM Cinématek; The Caan Film Festival at Museum of the Moving Image; Road Rage at IFC Center; Film Forum Jr. at Film Forum; and the effortlessly swank Cabaret Cinema at the Rubin Museum. The hijinkery be thus;
Friday May 19th
Film Forum
RESERVOIR DOGS (1992) Dir; Quentin Tarantino
Metrograph
Three Favorites Selected by Aziz Anzari and Edward Yang
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968) Dir; Stanley Kubrick
Quad Cinema
EL NORTE (1983) Dir; Gregory Nava
THE BORDER (1982) Dir; Tony Richardson
HESTER STREET (1975) Dir; Joan Micklin Silver
Film Society of Lincoln Center
THE ORGANIZER (1963) Dir; Mario Monicelli
HENRY IV (1984) Dir; Marco Bellochio
DIVORCE ITALIAN STYLE (1961) Dir; Pietro Germi
MARRIAGE ITALIAN STYLE (1964) Dir; Vittorio de Sica
MoMA
Modern Matinees: Mr. Cary Grant
WALK, DON'T RUN (1966) Dir; Charles Walters
BAM Cinématek
THE WARRIORS (1979) Dir; Walter Hill
Museum of the Moving Image
THIEF (1981) Dir; Micheal Mann
Landmark Jersey Loews
AFTER THE THIN MAN (1936) Dir; W.S. Van Dyke
Rubin Museum
PATHER PANCHALI (1955) Dir; Satyajit Ray
IFC Center
THE DRIVER (!978) Dir; Walter Hill
Today's Pick? I wanted to make this a weekend of reverse-engineered twofers, as different works from individual directors are screening at multiple venues this wekend, but alas; I was only able to make it fly as far as Staurday. Nevertheless I proceed with the incomplete sked plan, and today suggest you make the trek from BAM, who plays host to Walter Hill's seminal gang pic THE WARRIORS this day as part of their Peak Performances series, all the way back into Manhattan via the F train to West 4th st. and IFC Center for their midnight screening of the same grit-eur's THE DRIVER. Trust me, it'll best any testosterone supplement you're currently taking. No, I'm not projecting. Shut up!
Saturday May 20th
Film Forum
RESERVOIR DOGS (1992) Dir; Quentin Tarantino
THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD (1938) Dir; Michael Curtiz
Syndicated
THE GREAT DICTATOR (1940) Dir; Charlie Chaplin
Film Society of Lincoln Center
BIG DEAL ON MADONNA STREET (1958) Dir; Mario Monicelli
LA DOLCE VITA (1960) Dir; Federico Fellini
8 1/2 (1963) Dir; Federico Fellini
LA NOTTE (1961) Dir; Michelangelo Antonioni
Museum of the Moving Image
EL DORADO (1966) Dir; HAWKS!!!
THE RAIN PEOPLE (1968) Dir; Francis Ford Coppola
CINDERELLA LIBERTY (1973) Dir; Mark Rydell
Quad Cinema
COMING TO AMERICA (1988) Dir; John Landis
THE GODFATHER PART II (1974) Dir; Francis Ford Coppola
THE EMIGRANTS (1971) Dir; Jan Troell
EL NORTE (1983) Dir; Gregory Nava
BAM Cinématek
BLUE VELVET (1986) Dir; David Lynch
Metrograph
Three Favorites Selected by Aziz Anzari and Edward Yang
L'AVVENTURA (1960) Dir; Michelangelo Antonioni
Landmark Jersey Loews
INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (1989) Dir; Steven Spielberg
THE ROAD WARIOR (1982) Dir; George Miller
IFC Center
THE DRIVER (!978) Dir; Walter Hill
Today's Pick? Two from Italian Neorealist/New Wave master Michelangelo Antonioni screen today, and it might be a slim window of transit but I'm betting those fleet of foot can make both L'AVVENTURA, unspooling in glorious 35 at the Metrograph as part of the short series Three Favorites Selected by Aziz Anzari and Edward Yang, and zigzag yer way via the MTA up to the Walter Reade Theater for the evening screening of the same man's LA NOTTE, part of their Mastroianni hot stone massage Il Bello Marcello! I realize now that both suggestions I've made thus far feature a later work followed by an earlier work, which might make the experience, should you choose to accept this mission, that much more interesting. Just so you know I retain full deniability.
Sunday May 21st
Film Forum
HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING (1967) Dir; David Swift
RESERVOIR DOGS (1992) Dir; Quentin Tarantino
Metrograph
Three Favorites Selected by Aziz Anzari and Edward Yang
TOKYO STORY (1955) Dir; Yasujiro Ozu
Museum of the Moving Image
BRIAN'S SONG (1971) Dir; Buzz Kulick
THE KILLER ELITE (1975) Dir; Sam Peckinpah
THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (1918) Dir; Robert Weine
Mid-Manhattan Library
THE YAKUZA (1974) Dir; Sydney Pollack
Film Society of Lincoln Center
YESTERDAY TODAY AND TOMORROW (1963) Dir; Vittorio de Sica
IL BELL'ANTONIO (1960) Dir; Mauro Boglonini
A SPECIAL DAY (1977) Dir; Ettore Scola
SUNFLOWER (1970) Dir; Vittorio de Sica
Quad Cinema
ALAMO BAY (1985) Dir; Louis Malle
ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA (1984) Dir; Sergio Leone
Today's Pick? My plan falls apart here. So I'll side with a fellow mad doctor whose ambitions went awry and choose Robert Weine's groundbreaking and enormously influential THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, flickering its 1's and 0's at Museum of the Moving Image to the accompanying strains of High Water and Eliot Krimsky. Nuff sed.
Other notable screenings this week include a 25th anniversary screening of 90's cinema's most auspicious debut, Quentin Tarantino's RESERVOIR DOGS, this Monday at Film Forum and stickin' around for a two-week bark 'n bite; what remains the most magic movie experience of my life, Richard Donner's SUPERMAN THE MOVIE, this Tuesday at the Quad Cinema as part of their Immigrant Songs series; George Stevens' action film template GUNGA DIN, this Wednesday at MoMA as part of their magnificent Modern Matinees: Mr. Cary Grant; and Speilberg's CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND this Thursday evening out at the Pride of Bushwick, and lord knows there are many pretenders to that throne, the magnificent Syndicated!
Once again, there you have it, my picks and pontifications regarding your next 7 days' worth of rep filmgoing! We'll check in again a week from now, in the early days of a whole new spin 'round the sun, for the purposes of once more rummaging through the reels and making the tough yet wonderful choices regarding our chosen love. Til then be sure to follow me on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram, and be SURE to catch my new YouTube channel, Nitrate Stock TV, where I'll be checking in at screenings all over the city and giving my 2 cents on the film, the venue, the audience, any damn thing that comes to my mind. Which, as some of ya know, can be quite entertaining. . Til next time Stockahz, remember: be safe, be sound, and make sure the next guy and gal are too. Excelsior!
- Joe Walsh
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