Budd Boetticher's THE RISE AND FALL OF LEGS DIAMOND enjoys the second of its three-day run as part of MOMA's ongoing Auteurist History of Film series. Buddy B's modern gangster epic follows none-too-historically the exploits of Prohibition era headline maker Jack Diamond, associate of Arnold Rothstein and all-around swell guy.

Jean Gabin and Bourvil's trek across a nighttime occupied city in the service of transporting a butchered but spoiling porcine parcel for the wartime black market comes nearly to its end. A PIG ACROSS PARIS screens at the Film Forum for two more days before its final oink. Would definitely snag my Pick but another journey nearing its end takes precedence today. Desolee, mon ami.

Jean Gabin and Bourvil transport a butchered and slowly rotting PIG ACROSS PARIS in Claude Autant-Lara's comedy of desperation concerning the eponymous city's thriving Black Market during the Occupation. Screens for a week at Film Forum, so I pass it up today. It'll keep.

The great Jean Gabin and Bourvil transport A PIG ACROSS PARIS in Claude Autant-Lara's seriocomic postwar classic. Occupied France's black market is repped by the titlular porcine parcel, butchered and slowly spoiling, which plants obstacles of both the human and clock-watching variety in our protagonists' way. Screens for a week at Film Forum in its new DCP resto, so it'll take my Pick one of these days, just not this one.

Last chance to show some long-deserved love for Jerry Schatzberg's SCARECROW, the only flick to co-star Al Pacino and Gene Hackman, at least until they cash in on that direct-to-video action comedy I pray nightly will not happen. Screens its last at the Film Forum. Chose it yesterday so me myself is gonna pass.

Yeah, I kinda thought we left Bergman weather behind a while ago myself, but apparently MOMA feels differently. The Man With No Tan's THE VIRGIN SPRING screens for three days as part of the museum's ongoing Auteurist History of Film series. Let's take a break from the Berg Man for a season, shall we?

Jerry Schatzberg's SCARECROW, the only onscreen pairing of New Holywood icons Al Pacino and Gene Hackman, recieves a much deserved DCP restoration and a week-long booking at the Film Forum. This tale of two drifters whose dream of owning a car wash in Pittsburgh is frequently disrupted by inconvenient reality recieved little love whence released, but has come to be regarded as the gem all involved set out to make it.

Claude Chabrol's early shot fired in the French New Wave THE COUSINS ends its three-day run as part of MOMA's ongoing Auteurist History of Film series, which is sorta remarkable to anyone who's ever asked visiting relations to depart on time.

Today both Roberto Rossellini's Neorealist classic VOYAGE TO ITALY and Terrence Malick's New Hollywood masterpiece BADLANDS screen their last at the Film Forum. Hey, the journey's gotta end somewheres sez this guy, and both couples find the elusive spark their lives have been sorely bereft of. Sorta.

Claude Chabrol's THE COUSINS unspools for three days as part of MOMA's ongoing Auteurist History of Film series. The tale of the eponymous duo and the clash between their cultures urban and rural was an early shot fired in the French Nouvelle Vague, and won the Golden Bear at the Venice Film Fest.