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David White
Feb 16, 2020

No Film Week: Feb. 17-23

The trailer for Wes Anderson’s new movie The French Dispatch just came out, and I am very excited to see that he has captured new and exciting actors Timothee Chalamet, Elizabeth Moss, and Henry Winkler for this one. It’s also exciting to know that they will be in every Wes Anderson movie from now, till the day they die, because that’s how it works. No one leaves Wes Anderson, babe. No one. Movies!:


Monday, Feb. 17:

  • Empire of Passion in 35mm- 6:30pm- Nagisa Oshima’s erotic samurai-noir gets even spicier when goddamn ghosts show up. Metrograph

  • The Big Lebowski- 7:30pm- Perfect time to rewatch this classic, because John Turturro made his own spin-off, which is not a thing I thought you could do. City Cinemas

  • Weathering With You- 8:40pm- Follow-up to Your Name, anime film about a high-schooler who runs away to Tokyo and meets a girl who can control the weather. Just like Rosario Dawson in Men in Black 2! Syndicated


Tuesday, Feb. 18:

  • Minnie and Moskowitz- 7pm- John Cassavetes’s rom-com classic about a museum curator and a parking lot attendant. A parking lot attendant played by Seymour Cassel with a ponytail. Alamo Drafthouse

  • McMillion$ (Episodes 3&4) + Q&A with Directors and Subjects- 7:30pm- I’m pretty sure that one of the people doing the Q&A was one of the people committing the fraud, so this should be amazing. IFC Center

  • Dream Deceivers in 16mm + Q&A with Director- 9:15pm- 90s documentary that examines the case of a fundamentalist family suing Judas Priest for having satanic subliminal messages in their music, after their teenage son attempted suicide. Anthology Film Archive


Wednesday, Feb. 19:

  • Boomerang- 7pm- Eddie Murphy is a braver man than me- I would be way too scared to turn Grace Jones down. Alamo Drafthouse

  • Everything is Illuminated + Q&A with Director Liev Schreiber- 7:30pm- Liev Schreiber is here to talk about his directorial debut, and I can’t wait for someone to ask to speak to Ray Donovan, James Lipton-style. IFC Center

  • Gothic in 35mm- 9:30pm- The story of Mary Shelly writing Frankenstein, directed by my favorite insane director Ken Russell. And obviously it involves a sexy descent into madness, as all movies should. Alamo Drafthouse


Thursday, Feb. 20:

  • The State Against Madela and the Others + Q&A with Director and Journalist- 7:15pm- New documentary about the 1963 trial where Nelson Mandela and 8 others faced the death sentence. Afterwards, the Q&A is led by Pamela Newkirk, an NYU professor who covered Mandela in South Africa when he was released from prison. IFC Center

  • Angel Heart- 9pm- Robert De Niro plays Lou Cyphre (wink wink) because Al Pacino doesn’t get to have all the fun. Anthology Film Archives

  • The Face of Another in 35mm- 10pm- Hiroshi Teshigahara’s plastic surgery existential drama. I don’t see what the fuss is about- none of my cosmetic surgery has changed me at all, except to give me some awesome looking calves. Metrograph


Friday, Feb. 21:

  • Saint Frances + Q&A with Directors and Writers- 7:30pm- SXSW award-winning movie about a woman taking a job as a nanny while trying to pull her life together. Good thing they don’t teach each other any lessons about life or the meaning of family or anything. Angelika

  • Cabaret Maxime + Q&A with Director and Star- 8:30pm- Ode to the dying old-school New York that no amount of Michael Imperioli can stop. Boy, ain’t that the truth. Metrograph

  • Wild at Heart in 35mm- 12:20am- David Lynch’s rock & roll Wizard of Oz with Nicholas Cage and Laura Dern. When Crispin Glover is giving the fifth wildest performance in a movie, you know you’re in good hands. Nitehawk Williamsburg


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Sunday, Feb. 23:

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