Today I'd like to welcome friend and fellow film aficionado Saevar Halldorsson as the site's very first guest blogger. Halldorsson grew up in a movie theater in a small fishing village in Iceland. Passion for the cinema led him to New York to study directing, and then to write, produce, and direct for television. He shares with us his Pick of the Month.

FIFTY SHADES OF FELLINI

The Film Forum welcomes Terrence Malick's debut feature BADLANDS for a week and extends Roberto Rossellini's VOYAGE TO ITALY for a second week. Both journeys existential, with vastly different outcomes. Essential viewing. Just not today.

REPRIEVE! I mean, SOSPENSIONE DELLA PENA! Roberto Rossellini's VOYAGE TO ITALY is held over at Film Forum for an additional week! George Sanders and Ingrid Berman make the eponymous journey both geographical and metaphysical 35 more times! Grazie mille, B-Gold!

Roberto Rossellini's Neorealist classic VOYAGE TO ITALY screens its last tonight as the Film Forum's 9-day trib to the master cinematic innovator and banger of Ingrid Bergman comes to a close. The story of a marriage suddenly tested on the eponymous trip after years of seeming content was lambasted upon release, speculatively due to the backlash against the married director's affair with the also-married-but-not-to-Rossellini Bergman, the film's star.

Michaelangelo Antonioni's THE CRY is afforded MOMA's weekly three-day trib as part of their Auteurist History of Film series.

Sorry this overview comes a few days late but it's May, so pardon me for enjoying the warm weather whydonch'ya?

Roberto Rossellini's ode to the nuances of marriage and the angels and/or demons time makes of them sails into its 4th day of 9 at the Film Forum. VOYAGE TO ITALY was cooly recieved in its day but has since climbed the critical ranks to reach #41 on the BFI top 50 all-time. They're also responsible for VERTIGO's perch at #1, so take that ranking as you will. Determined to catch this. Just not today.

Roberto Rossellini's examination of a marriage's peaks, pitfalls and potential end, VOYAGE TO ITALY, enters day three of its 9-day week at Film Forum in its brand new DCP incarnation.

Roberto Rossellini's VOYAGE TO ITALY enters the second of its 9-day week at the Film Forum. The neo-realist auteur's examination of the strengths, weaknesses and, indeed, purpose of the modern marriage has risen sharply from its initial status as commercial pariah to critical darling. I've got some time to choose this, so I pass it up today in favor of a flop that landed with a louder thud.

THE FIRST OF MAY!!! MAY 1ST 2013!! MAY MAY MAY!!! HAVE I MENTIONED IT'S MAY???