pops baron: American International Pictures

05 August 2015

All film titles link to screening information.

Thursday August 6th:
Hiroshima Mon Amour, New DCP 4K Restoration, Showtimes throughout the day @ FF

Bless Their Little Hearts, 35mm, 7 or 9:30PM @ BAM

Tales of Hoffman, New DCP Restoration, 7PM @ MoMA

The Moon with Teeth, Digital, 7:30PM @ Spectacle Theater

Last chance to catch Jem Cohen's masterpiece Counting [Q+A w/ Jem Cohen after 7:25PM show], DCP, Showtimes throughout the day @ IFC

Friday August 7th:
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice, 35mm, 11AM @ IFC

The Red Shoes, 35mm, 4:30PM @ MoMA

Boxcar Bertha, 35mm, 7PM @ AFA
Sökarna, Digital, 7PM @ Spectacle
Seventeen [Q+A w/ Joel DeMott], 16mm, 7PM @ BAM
Black Narcissus, 35mm, 8:00PM @ MoMA

Last Tango in Paris, 35mm, 9:45PM @ FF
Five Deadly Venoms, 35mm, 12:15AM @ Nitehawk

Cinema on the Edge: The Best of Beijing Independent Film Festival 2012 - 2014 kicks off and runs through August 13th @ AFA
See It Big! 70mm kicks off @ MoMI
Metropolitan [Q+A's throughout the weekend after the 7PM shows], new DCP restoration opens @ FSLC with daily showtimes throughout the week

Saturday August 8th:

The Freshman, 35mm, 4:30PM @ FF

Blue Velvet, 35mm, 4:30 or 9:30PM @ BAM

Un chant d'amour / Pull My Daisy, both on 35mm, 5PM @ AFA [Free for members]

Queen of Blood, 16mm, 7PM @ AFA

The Surveyors, Digital, 10PM @ Spectacle

Toxic Zombies, Digital, Midnight @ Spectacle

Sunday August 9th:

Viva Zapata!, 35mm, 12:30PM @ FF

The Apple, Digital, 5PM @ Spectacle

Apocalypse Now, DCP, 8PM @ FF

Last chance to catch Sisters [7PM] and Blood & Lace [9PM] at AFA.

Continuing:

Phoenix @ IFC

Tangerine @ FSLC

Update:
God Bless the Child plays throughout the weekend with Q+A's.

31 July 2015

Blood and Lace (Philip Gilbert, 1971)

Opening with a beautiful homage to Psycho via a dream sequence that marries Eisenstein (the past) and Halloween (the future). Everything else that follows seems to come from a different universe. If Mr. Gilbert would've ever made another film maybe that universe could have expanded but he didn't so it's all contained here. A blonde (Melody Patterson) finds herself as an underage orphan after her prostitute mother is brutally murdered. This propels a series of events that could constitute the plot of ten different films. Throw in Gloria Grahame in her What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? role. An ending worthy of Oldboy and Sleepaway Camp that has a time traveling cameo by a fat Freddy Kreuger. A film that subconsciously entered cinema history through it's influence, even if it went widely unseen (until recently at least).