Today's continuing series include The Complete Hitchcock at Film Forum, Vienna Unveiled and An Auteurist History of Film at MoMA, Under the Influence: Scorsese/Walsh at BAM Cinematek, Richie's Electric Light: The Bold and the Daring at the Japan Society, and Overdue: Richard Fleischer at Anthology Film Archives. Sucks it's also gonna be 2 degrees while all this excellence is unspooling. The seductive celluloid as follows;

Today's continuing series include the midpoint of Film Forum's The Complete Hitchcock, MoMA's Vienna Unveiled and their ongoing Auteurist History of Film, and BAM's ace career comparison Under the Influence: Scorsese/Walsh. The celluloid skullduggery be as follows;

Today's ongoing series inlude Film Forum's The Complete Hitchcock, MoMA's Vienna Unveiled, BAM Cinematek's Overdue, and Anthology Film Archives' Overdue: Richard Fleischer. Those last two should settle naming rights in a duel. The list as follows;

We got ourselves a pretty impressive haul on the rep film circuit today. Continuing series include Film Forum's The Complete Hitchcock, Moving Image's Hotels on Film, MoMA's Vienna Unveiled, and Anthology Film Archives' Overdue: Richard Fleischer. The plunder be thus;

Today's absolutely tropical 50 degree temps inspire me to shed several layers of winter shielding built up over the cruel, tyrannical reign of the Polar Vortex. I blame the booze and apologize to any onlookers who were traumatized by said shedding. Thankfully it's only a second offense.

Today's continuing series include Film Forum's trib to the exceedingly well winter-proofed auteur The Complete Hitchcock, MoMA's elegant Vienna Unveiled, the Silent Clowns' Chaplin at Essanay, and Anthology Film Archives' Overdue: Richard Fleischer. The rep circit monkeyshines in full;

Today's new and continuing series include MoMA's Auteurist History of Film and Vienna Unveiled, Film Forum's exercise in cinematic corpulence The Complete Hitchcock, Anthology Film Archives' Overdue: Richard Fleischer, and the Rubin Museum's swank Cabaret Cinema. The repertory hijinks as follows;

Not much could survive this Arctic blight that has beset our land lo these last three months, so let's be grateful that Film Forum's Complete Hitchcock and MoMA's Auteurist History of Film and Vienna Unveiled are the lone series still scurrying about foraging for food and shelter. The Londonesque quest for fire be thus;

Today's continuing series include Film Forum's The Complete Hitchcock, and MoMA's Auterist History of Film and Vienna Unveiled: A City in Cinema. Let's go to press;

We've made it to the third month of this relatively still-new year. Aside from losing, at an alarming rate, some of the most beloved talent the movie industry has ever known, I'm hoping we've all made it through this miserable, grim, dank and dour winter thus far with only mild wear and tear. Is the irony lost on all but me that last year at this time, when Bergman was screening on a seemingly weekly basis, the weather was so much less Bergmanesque?

Ahem.

Another Oscars ceremony in the books, the awards handed out, the gift swag absconded with, the Vanity Fair after-party crashers repelled by champagne cork fire. All in all I gotta say it was a pretty fair affair, and not the usual case of the undeserving lauded for work almost instantly forgotten (I'm looking at you, THE KING'S SPEECH). While a batch of my own personal picks went unrewarded (the nommed Chiwitel Ejiofor, the un-nommed BLUE JASMINE), most of the actual winners turned in some of the most meretorious work of 2013 (McConaughey, Spike Jonze's Original Screenplay upset). So for a change I'm not livid. I'll channel my anticipatory disgust toward the weather instead. Grrr.

Today's continuing series include Film Forum's massive The Complete Hitchcock and MoMA's Vienna Unveiled: A City in Cinema. Here be the shenanigans;