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