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

Immigrant Songs

EL NORTE (1983) Dir; Gregory Nava

THE BORDER (1982) Dir; Tony Richardson

HESTER STREET (1975) Dir; Joan Micklin Silver

 

Film Society of Lincoln Center

Il Bello Marcello

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

Peak Performances

THE WARRIORS (1979) Dir; Walter Hill

 

Museum of the Moving Image

The Caan Film Festival

THIEF (1981) Dir; Micheal Mann

 

Landmark Jersey Loews

AFTER THE THIN MAN (1936) Dir; W.S. Van Dyke

 

Rubin Museum

Cabaret Cinema

PATHER PANCHALI (1955) Dir; Satyajit Ray

 

IFC Center

Road Rage

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

Il Bello Marcello

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

The Caan Film Festival

EL DORADO (1966) Dir; HAWKS!!!

THE RAIN PEOPLE (1968) Dir; Francis Ford Coppola

CINDERELLA LIBERTY (1973) Dir; Mark Rydell

 

Quad Cinema

Immigrant Songs

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

Peak Performances

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

Road Rage

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

Film Forum Jr.

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

The Caan Film Festival

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

Il Bello Marcello

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

Immigrant Songs

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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