FIVE-count-'em-FIVE excellent screenings present yours truly with an extremely hard choice to be made. How to narrow it down to a singular selection? I sometimes wish this was a Sith apprenticeship and not a HIGHLANDER competition.

Yep. I just went there. Deal.

Continuing series today include French Cinema's Secret Trove at the French Institute/Alliance Française, and Cool Worlds: The Animation of Ralph Bakshi at BAM Cinématek. Hey. Ho. Let's Go.

Sunday. Lazy. Let's get to it.

Today's continuing series include Film Forum Jr. at Film Forum, and the Kenji Mizoguchi trib at Museum of the Moving Image. Survey sez?

The final collaboration between the once mighty production duo known as The Archers, a full day of the surviving works of a titan of World Cinema, and a film once all but banned from US screens that nearly derailed its maker's career for good. Much to be prized in the world of NYC's classic screenings, but there can be only one! (Cue dramatic music!)

Ongoing series today include the Kenji Mizoguchi trib at Museum of the Moving Image, The Silent Clowns' Mary Pickord retrospective at the Library for the Performing Arts, and Cool Worlds: The Animation of Ralph Bakshi at BAM Cinématek. The repertory hijinks be thus;

A minor midweek lull, and now the rep film circuit begins to buzz anew. Genre works that redefined the cinema of horror and animation, as well as a choice cut from a master of world cinema, grace our city's screens this day. New and continuing series include An Auteurist History of Film at MoMA, Cool Worlds: The Animation of Ralph Bakshi at BAM Cinématek, the Kenji Mizoguchi trib at Museum of the Moving Image, and the Rubin Museum's eternally swank Cabaret Cinema at the Rubin Museum of Art. The 4-perf profundity as follows;

An eclectic if minimal mix this day on the rep circuit; a Shakespearean adap from one of the finest filmmakers the world's ever known, a cutural game-changer that not only impacted its genre but practically invented the Midnight Movie, a disaster epic produced at the height of that sub-genre's popularity, and Wes Craven's DEADLY FRIEND. Lord knows where my predilections will lead me this day.

Ongoing series today include An Auteurist History of Film at MoMA, and The Deuce at the Nitehawk Cinema. The hijinks look thus;

A precipitous drop in both temperatures seasonally appropriate and kinetic activity on NYC's repertory film circuit begs a simple question; is it really May? To which I answer, does May really exist? I haven't seen any evidence, pally, you tell me. May is a rumour. Until convinced otherwise.

Today's lone continuing series is An Auteurist History of Film at MoMA. The diminutive doings be thus;

An uncharacteristically slow day during May's 1st week affords me the opportunity to finally choose a film that's been running for the last week and a half, and not only because it reps exactly one quarter of the days's rep circuit doings. The totality of today's new and continuing series include French Cinema's Secret Trove at the French Institute, and BAM Cinématek's sadly concluding Ellen Burstyn trib. And now, on with the opera;

Continuing series today include Film Forum Jr. and The Hitchcock 9 at Film Forum, the Ellen Burstyn trib at BAM Cinématek, and the Kenji Mizoguchi retro at Museum of the Moving Image. Damn the Jujubes and full steam ahead;

From first meal to midnight snack, you could virtually live inside NYC's repertory theaters today and scarcely meet the sun. While I advise against such a lifestyle, particularly following a winter that would scare all other winters back to their icy mommas, I could understand the temptation given today's schedule in classic screenings, starting with The Goblin King and ending with ROBOCOP. The real ROBOCOP.

Continuing series today include the Ellen Burstyn trib at BAM Cinématek, and the Kenji Mizoguchi retrospective at Museum of the Moving Image. Lead on MacDuff...

A new broom sweeps clean, unless you apply that aphorism to my immediate surroundings. I'm referring rather to May 2014's power to potentially, hopefully, remove the bitter taste and chill of this most egregious of winters, one which seems to have been finally, mercifully put down. Mercifully regarding our well-being, not the foaming-mawed mad season that wreaked hell upon our rivers, streets, cars, skin, id, ego and superego lo these last 2400 months. Finally weather conducive to the patronage of our fine rep circuit screens arrives, Buddah willing, and in accordance the programmers at these precious venues have booked a wide and enticing variety of films to beckon the Cinegeek like a siren's call.

Today's new and continuing series include the Kenji Mizoguchi retrospective at Museum of the Moving Image, An Auteurist History of Film at MoMA, the Ellen Burstyn trib at BAM Cinématek, Justice in Film at the New York Historical Society, and the schmancy Cabaret Cinema at the Rubin Museum. Here now is the rep film circuit's collective Ode to Spring;