It's a big day on the rep film circuit, so let's dive right in. New and continuing series today include the Film Society's dual tribs to George Cukor's CV and the Ingmar Bergman/Liv Ullmann collaborations, Film Forum's exhaustive Barbara Stanwyck retrospective, Anthology Film Archives' revisit of their Delmer Daves appreciation, Museum of the Moving Image's See It Big!: Great Cinematographers, and the Rubin Museum's Cabaret Cinema. The entire madcap antics as follows;

My outer-body self will assume the duties of typing out the daily offerings to be had on the rep film circuit, as my corporeal self snoozes soundly beneath the fleece sheets provided by his friendly neighborhood Kmart on this 4,000 Kelvin below day.

New and continuing series include Film Forum's extensive month-long trib to Barbara Stanwyck, the Film Society's final sayonara of 2103 to master filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu, the Silent Clowns getting up to their old pre-talkie antics once more, Anthology Film Archives' revisit of their Delmer Daves retrospective, MoMA's Our Town: Baltimore, and the Japan Society's folded-hand bow to recently passed essayist and cinematic scholar Donald Richie. Here be the exacts;

Continuing series today include Film Forum's month-long Barbara Stanwyck trib, the Film Society's final sayonara of 2013 to Yasujiro Ozu, and the Nitehawk Cinema's Film Feasts. The day's cinematic menu in its entirety;

John Carpenter's THEY LIVE, the filmmaker's takedown of Reagan-era middle class evisceration, continues at the IFC Center for the remainder of the week, until it's replaced on Friday by Frank Capra's IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE. For reasons that defy my eloquence, this seems all too utterly appropriate.

Ongoing series today include the Film Forum's month-long trib to Barbara Stanwyck, the Film Society's coda to the year of Yasujiro Ozu, and the French Institute's Cinema Tuesdays, this month dedicated to maverick silent film comedian Max Linder. The full bill of fare;

The rep circuit screenings were ubiquitous as rain over the weekend. Now the rain is as ubiquitous as rain. Ya take what ya get.

Today's lone series is Film Forum's month-long Barbara Stanwyck trib. The meager menu in full;

As I'm still fascinated by a Cinegeek parlor game that ensued upon yesterday's post-screening of Preston Sturges' THE LADY EVE, whereby studio era stalwart Joel McCrea was recast in that film's Henry Fonda role, and then other classic roles including IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE's George Bailey, I'm making that entertaining futilty this month's frivolity. All month long I want your feedback as to which daily screening would be well served, if not improved, by McCrea's casting, no matter the decade of its release. You'll find my choice at the end of this screed. Until then...

It's 60 degrees, it's 30 degress, it's clear and sunny, it's misty and foggy, it's NYC, it's Glasgow. YO! Make up yer mind, Ma Nature! We got film skeds to keep to, and coats and umbrellas are sorta important to our commutes, ya dig Mamz?!?

Ahem. New and continuing series include Film Forum's massive month-long Barbara Stanwyck trib, IFC Center's The Way He Was: Early Redford, Moving Image's See It Big! Great Cinematographers, and the Film Society's last Ozu trib of 2013. The monkeyshines as follows;

AAAAND...the December rep calendar properly begins! Last year our cheery programming elves brought us retrospectives dedicated to Max Von Sydow, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Jean-Louis Trintignant. Because nothing sez warm holiday fuzzies like that trio. Proceedings are significantly lighter this spin 'round the sun, and new and continuing series today include Film Forum's excellent month-long Barbara Stanwyck trib, IFC Center's Robert Redford huggery, MoMA's ongoing Auteurist History of Film, the Film Society's Yasujiro Ozu hot stone massage, Moving Image's See It Big! Great Cinematographers, and the Rubin Museum's Cabaret Cinema. The full day's shebang as follows;

Today is the literal calm before the rep circuit storms. Continuing series are limited to the Film Society's Yasujiro Ozu foot massage and MoMA's Auterist History of Film. The whole megillah;

The month in rep film begins cooly, no pun intended, as programmers showcase some interesting offerings before bringing the real heat starting this weeekend. Series today are limited to MoMA's ongoing Auteurist History of Film and the Film Society's cheerily monickered Ozu and his Afterlives. The full prognosis;