New and continuing series this day include Classics of French Cinema with Olivier Barrot at the French Institute, Labor of Love: 100 Years of Movie Dates at BAM Cinématek, Welcome to Metrograph: A to Z at the Metrograph, Anna & Jean-Luc at Film Forum, and Jean-Marie Straub and Danièlle Huillet at MoMA. The kino califragilistic be thus;

Well Howdy-Do, Stockahz! Thanks for being a patient soul as I prepped this month's overview. It's been a hectic couple of weeks but even though I let the first few days of May '16 slip past, there's still plenty of screenings and series to get to over the next lunar cycle. Plenty. Trust me, it proved an exhausting amount to collect in one calendar. So let's get exhaustive about it, shalln't we?

New and continuing series this day include Classic IFC Center and When U Were Ours: Remembering Prince at IFC Center, Fassbinder's Top Ten at the Metrograph, Modern Matinees: Six New York Independents at MoMA, the waning days of the Film Society's Queer Cinema Before Stonewall, and the eternally swellegant Cabaret Cinema at the Rubin Museum. The glorification of grain be thus;

Already this year the movie-mad in our metropolis have been the lucky recipients of so much treasure, and 2016 is a mere 4 months in! We've been gifted Film Forum's SHAKESPEARE ON FILM, which included a visit and Q&A with the auteur's daughter, the Michael Mann retropsective at BAM, which included an evening's sit with the man himself, and the thrilling trib to Argentinian Noir in the postwar era, which featured none other than Eddie Muller, founder and prez of the Film Noir Foundation. As I prep the May '16 callie of NYC's rep film shenanigans I'm bursting to discuss the many series, screenings and special events on the horizon. Howehvz; we still got this month to conclude. April '16, we hardly knew ye. But enough sentiment. Let's get to today's celluloid chicanery;

Ongoing series this day include Modern Matinees: Six New York Independents at MoMA, Queer Cinema Before Stonewall at the Film Society, and Fassbinder's Top Ten at the newly-unveiled Metrograph Cinema. The poetic popcorny pull-down be thus;

Today's lone ongoing series is the Film Society's brilliant, comprehesive and fascinating Queer Cinema Before Stonewall. The silver halide salience be thus;

New and continuing series this day include Fassbinder's Top Ten and Old & Improved at the Metrograph, Queer Cinema Before Stonewall at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, See it Big: Vilmos Zsigmond! at the Museum of the Moving Image, and Stephen King on Film at IFC Center. The lavender lamentation be thus;

New and continuing series this day include Japan Sings! The Japanese Musical Film at the Japan Society, Chantal Akerman: Images Between the Images at BAM, and the year-long Welcome to Metrograph: A to Z at the Metrograph. The flickering frolic be thus;

Tax Day approacheth, and while I still haven't found a decent accountant as regards my personal finances, I myself can take a good accounting of the rep film scene at the moment. Something tells me I'm going to owe on the former but be rewarded on the latter. And I'm perfectly fine with that. Depending on the amounts. Wait, let me go back to finding an accountant...

Continuing series this day include Modern Matinees: Six New York Independents and Germany 66, both unfolding at MoMA, Barthes at the Movies: A Retrospective at Anthology Film Archives, and the monthly trib to Times Square's glory Grindhouse past, The Deuce at the Nitehawk. The emulsified ebullience be thus;

New and continuing series this day include Classics of French Cinema with Olivier Barrot at the French Institute, Germany 66 at MoMA, Japan Sings! The Japanese Musical Film at the Japan Society, and Barthes at the Movies: A Retrospective at Anthology Film Archives. The filmic frivolity be thus;