Underwater came out this week and looks like even the promise of watching TJ Miller get eaten by sea monsters couldn’t save it. Which is annoying because I’m pretty sure that Kristen Stewart is a good actor, but goddamn, it’d be nice if she made a good movie every once in a while. At least she got to hang out with Vincent Cassel...here’s what else is happening:
Series:
Film Forum’s Black Women: Trailblazing African American Actresses & Images 1920-2001
IFC Center’s The Films of Studio Ghibli
Lincoln Center’s The Bong Show: The Films of Bong Joon Ho
Lincoln Center’s New York Jewish Film Festival
MoMA’s To Save and Protect: 17th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation
Monday, Jan. 13:
Memories of Murder- 6pm- Story of three detectives trying to catch the real-life first serial killer in South Korean history. Bong Joon-Ho would like you to note that it came out before Zodiac. Lincoln Center
My Neighbor Totoro in 35mm- 6:20pm- Two kids sneak onto the fur bus, have a great time. IFC Center
Naked Bullet- 7:45pm- Yakuza gangster definitely won’t run off with a girl and then get caught by his boss and tortured AGAIN. Film Noir Cinema
Tuesday, Jan. 14:
Code Unknown in 35mm- 7:30pm- Juliette Binoche stars in Michael Haneke’s 357th examination of violence. Followed by a wine and beer reception, which is what should happen after every Haneke film. FIAF
The Red Light Bandit- 7:30pm- Brazilian existential gangster movie. So like Sonatine but everyone’s beautiful. Spectacle Theater
Mephisto- 7:30pm- Adaptation of Thomas Mann’s 30s novel about his brother-in-law(!), a sellout-liberal actor who becomes the favorite of the Nazis. He does not come across very well... Film Forum
Wednesday, Jan. 15:
Citizen K + Q&A with Director- 6:40pm- Documentary about oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former richest man in Russia, until he was arrested by Putin in 2003. So, no good guys in this one. Film Forum
A Bigger Splash- 8pm- Semi-fictional documentary about artist David Hockney reenacting himself getting dumped by his partner, which led to him processing this by painting swimming pools. And thus his tragedy was our gain- we win! Metrograph
Snake Eyes in 35mm- 8:45pm- Coked-out Nicolas Cage suspects something may be amiss when the Secretary of Defense is killed at a boxing match. Roxy Cinema
Thursday, Jan. 16:
8mm in 35mm- 7pm- Small town private eye Nic Cage finds a snuff film and does not care for it. Also Joaquin Phoenix plays a character named Max California. Roxy Cinema
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders in 35mm- 7:30pm- Czech New Wave fairytale classic about a woman coming of age and having to fight off vampires, priests, and witches. Which does happen in Czechia a lot. MoMA
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters- 10:15pm- Yes, Paul Schrader directed a fragmented surreal biopic of Yukio Mishima, a guy so intense he committed harikiri just to make a point about how masculine he was. Metrograph
Friday, Jan. 17:
The Canyons & Paul Schrader: Man in a Room + Q&A with Paul Schrader and Alex Ross Perry- 7pm- Paul Schrader’s Lindsey Lohan/Bret Easton Ellis collab plus a talk with the Taxi Driver screenwriter himself. I have so many questions about what was going on in his life when he wrote Rolling Thunder. Metrograph
The Earrings of Madame De… + Intro by Curator- 7:30pm- Stanley Kubrick’s favorite movie, a love-triangle drama about French aristocrats. Full Metal Jacket makes so much more sense now. Museum of Moving Image
Scream 2 in 35mm- 12:10am- Thank god they didn’t kill off Jamie Kennedy in the first one. Nitehawk Williamsburg
Saturday, Jan. 18:
It’s the Nineties, Stupid!- 12:30pm- A secret six film 90s marathon from Anthology Film Archives. Please just show Point Break six times. Please just show Point Break six times. Anthology Film Archives
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti in 16mm- 5:15pm- Documentary on Haitian voodoo culture, compiled from hours of footage shot on 16mm in the early 50s. Quad Cinema
VHYES- 7:30pm- Retro VHS mashup comedy about a kid taping over his parent’s wedding video with his favorite shows. AKA The Adult Swim Movie. Alamo Drafthouse
Sunday, Jan. 19:
Siren of the Tropics + Live Piano- 3:40pm- Josephine Baker’s film breakthrough, which is important because Josephine Baker is amazing. Film Forum
Bonnie and Clyde- 4pm- Any people who recruit Michael Pollard to their gang are really feeling themselves. True heat check moment. Syndicated
The Exorcist: Extended Director’s Cut- 6pm- Out of context, the pea soup scene is a pretty funny gag. Quad Cinema
What Else is Playing:
63 Up
Colonel Redl
Confidence
Cunningham
A Hidden Life
Invisible Life
Les Miserables
Mephisto
Pain & Glory
System K
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
The White Sheik
What to Plan on:
Film Forum is hosting the film series Homage to Anna Karina from Jan. 22-Jan. 30, a tribute to an amazing actor, who is so good that she can make Jean-Luc Godard movie seem charming. She’s an incredibly talented actor and someone so striking that you could just look at a still photo and see that she was clearly a movie star.
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