Fuck, do I have to see Cats? I don’t want to see Cats. My whole body is repelled by the trailer to Cats. I wish everyone wasn’t saying how great-bad it was. Shit, fine I’ll see Cats. Fuck you, Tom Hooper. Well, here’s what else is happening:
Series:
IFC Center’s The Films of Studio Ghibli
IFC Center’s Oscars Spotlight: Documentaries 2020
Lincoln Center’s The Bong Show: The Films of Bong Joon Ho
MoMA’s To Save and Protect: 17th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation
Museum of Moving Image’s Curator’s Choice 2019
Quad Cinema’s Bernard-Henri Levy x 4
Monday, Jan. 6:
King of New York + Q&A with Director- 7pm- Where was Christopher Walken all of Abel Ferrara’s life? Goddamn, they go well together. Roxy Cinema
Inland Sea + Q&A with Director and Producer- 7pm- New film by famed observational documentarian Kazuhiro Soda about the aging Japanese town of Ushmado. Spectacle Theater
Hallucinations- 9:30pm- It’s always a good sign when you see “shot on video” in the description of a horror movie. Alamo Drafthouse
Tuesday, Jan. 7:
The Passion of Joan of Arc- 4pm, 7:30pm- Carl Th. Dreyer’s silent masterpiece with Maria Falconetti nailing Joan’s classic thousand-yard stare. You know the one. FIAF
The Host in 35mm- 6pm- Yes, there’s a river monster in Seoul and yes, it is America’s fault. Sawry. Lincoln Center
The Yakuza Code Still Lives- 7:30pm- 70s Yakuza classic with Battles Without Honor and Humanity star Akira Kobayashi, so you know it’s good. Film Noir Cinema
Wednesday, Jan. 8:
Citizen Kane- 7:30pm- Orson Welles’s Mr. Bobo remake has a lot more Joseph Cotton than the original. Nitehawk Prospect Park
Cure in 35mm- 8:30pm- Kiyoshi Kurasawa’s very intense and methodical psychological horror movie, which also has one of my favorite posters. Lincoln Center
Supergirl in 35mm- 9:30pm- Faye Dunaway dares to come at Superman’s cousin. Alamo Drafthouse
Thursday, Jan. 9:
Apollo 11- 6:30pm- Shockingly tense documentary that somehow makes you nervous that Apollo 11 isn’t going to make it. What a great movie. IFC Center
Spoons, Toons & Booze New Years After Dark- 9:30pm- Alcohol + Lucky Charms + Jem & the Holograms = Truly outrageous. Nitehawk Prospect Park
Black Snow- 10pm- Xie Fei’s 1990s drama about a Beijing ex-con returning home and his struggle to stay straight. Plus Chinese pop singers! Spectacle Theater
Friday, Jan. 10:
Bell, Book and Candle- 1pm, 6:30pm- Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak made another movie together the same year they made Vertigo?? Metrograph
Stupid Young Heart- 7pm- Finland’s candidate for the Best International Film Oscar is like Juno but with more Neo-Nazis. Scandinavia House
The Woman Who Loves Giraffes + Q&A with Director & Subject- 7:15pm- Documentary about Anne Dagg, who went to South Africa in the 1950s to do immersive research giraffes- four years before that hack Jane Goodall did the same thing with chimps. Quad Cinema
Saturday, Jan. 11:
Some Like It Hot- 11am- Billy Wilder’s cross-dressing comedy classic that shows that even straight Marilyn Monroe can’t resist woman Tony Curtis. And there are definitely no gay panic jokes. Film Forum
Home Movie & The Amusement Park + Intro by Director and George Romero’s Widow- 6:30pm- Jan Oxenberg’s pioneering lesbian feminist short and George Romero’s pre-Night of the Living Dead anti-ageism PSA that is also a proto-horror movie. MoMA
Audition in 35mm- 12:10am- Takashi Miike’s Date Movie is about a movie director who learns the piano the hard way from his new girlfriend. Nitehawk Williamsburg
Sunday, Jan. 12:
Matilda- 11am- Even when they’re the villains, Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman make a pretty good couple. Metrograph
The Wages of Fear- 1pm- One of the tensest movies I’ve seen, about a very sweaty group of truck drivers transporting nitroglycerin through the South American mountains. Lincoln Center
Deliverance in 35mm- 8:45pm- It takes a lot to make Ned Beatty a sympathetic character, but we did it. Lincoln Center
What Else is Playing:
63 Up
Advocate
Atlantics
A Bigger Splash
Clemency
Colonel Redl
Confidence
Cunningham
Dark Waters
Downtown 81
Earth
The Europeans
Eyes Wide Shut
A Hidden Life
Invisible Life
Les Miserables
Mephisto
Pain & Glory
Phantom Thread
Synonyms
System K
The Two Popes
Uncut Gems
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
The White Sheik
What to Plan on:
Alamo Drafthouse is hosting an event about the show Dyke TV on Jan. 14 and it looks amazing. The screening is a 90 min best-of collection for the show that was created for, by and about lesbian culture in the 90s. After the screening, there is also a Q&A with some of the producers and I can only imagine that they have some amazing stories.
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