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David White
Nov 17, 2019

No Film Week: Nov. 18-24

Noah Baumbach has taken the Metrograph hostage and we have from now till December 22 to meet his demands. They are that 1) every movie has to be about upper-class white guy problems, 2) movies can appear funny but can’t actually be funny, 3) every character talks in long, erudite monologues, including children, no matter how inappropriate that would be for that character. So, while the police are trying to talk Noah down, here’s what else is happening:


Series:


Monday, Nov. 18:


Tuesday, Nov. 19:

  • The Emigrants- 6:30pm- Of course the Swedish Coming to America has them go to Minnesota. And is not a comedy. Scandinavia House

  • Give Me Liberty- 7pm- The day couldn’t get any worse for one Milwaukee-area handicap transport driver. At least he definitely won’t have to get tangled up in tricky issues like race and class. MoMA

  • Ask for Jane- 7pm- Movie about the real underground network that popped up to help women find safe illegal abortions in 60s Chicago. Take that, Mayor Daley. Anthology Film Archives

  • Lost in Translation + Intro by Co-Producer- 7pm- Sofia Coppola makes a movie that certainly looks smart, and also it’s in Japan! Japan Society

  • The Science of Sleep in 35mm- 7:30pm- Michel Gondry will make his rom-coms as whimsical as he wants, now that Charlie Kaufman isn’t there to boss him around. FIAF

  • Die Hard- 7:30pm- I’m down to my last gram of coke- time to solve this hostage crisis myself, thought Ellis. Nitehawk Prospect Park

  • Ellie- 9pm- Troma Tuesdays continue with a tale of a redneck girl seducing her way to revenge for the murder of her father. Film Noir Cinema

  • The Wraith in 35mm- 9:30pm- Remember when even the cheapest movie had ridiculous practical car explosions. The Wraith remembers. Alamo Drafthouse


Wednesday, Nov. 20:

  • The Architecture of Doom in 35mm- 7pm- Documentary about the art and design of the Third Reich. There will be khaki. Metrograph

  • Big Night + Q&A with Star- 7pm- Tony Shalhoub and Stanley Tucci star in this ode to italian food and failing restaurants. IFC Center

  • Millennium Film Journal No. 70- 7:30pm- A series of shorts that were all featured in Millennium Film Journal’s 70th issue “Body Memory”. This seems like a very smart event. I need to cancel that out by writing something very dumb about it. Fun fact: the Mad Magazine parody of the 70th issue is “Blech-y Mammary”. Anthology Film Archives

  • Mass Appeal Roc Raida Tribute- 7:30pm- A night of performance videos and discussions about turntablist legend Roc Raida, who passed away 10 years ago. Nitehawk Prospect Park

  • Raising Arizona in 35mm- 9:15pm- As long as Nathan Arizona Jr. was abducted by humans, there’s still hope. Roxy Cinema

  • Cool World in 35mm- 9:30pm- One of the wildest movies I’ve seen, it’s about a cartoon trying to have sex with a human so that she can become human. Because that’s how it works when Ralph Bakshi’s in charge. Alamo Drafthouse


Thursday, Nov. 21:


Friday, Nov. 22:

  • Your Program of Programs- 10am- 80s experimental cable access show in NYC that looks like a proto-Eric Andre Show, just with more experimental theater. And it’s playing all day! MoMA

  • Blast of Silence in 35mm- 11am- A hitman kills time and people in New York during Christmas. IFC Center

  • Caravaggio- 6pm- Derek Jarman’s masterpiece biopic about the renaissance painter. Plus young Sean Bean and Tilda Swinton, so you know we’re getting some flirty looks. Metrograph

  • Six Indigenous Shorts from the Sundance Institute- 6pm- Six shorts made in the last five years by indigegenous Sundance Institute Fellows. Museum of Moving Image

  • The New Land- 6:30pm- The Emigrants 2 picks up the story now that they’ve moved to Minnesota and purified themselves in the waters of Lake Minnetonka. Scandinavia House

  • Tokyo Pop + Q&A with Director- 7pm- An 80s rocker moves from NYC to Tokyo, with no issues or culture shock at all, which is nice. Stay for a director Q&A and a reception afterwards. Japan Society

  • Les Miserables + Q&A with Director- 7pm- French police drama inspired by the riots in Paris in 2005. It looks like a French version of The Shield, which I’m very into. And it’s free(?). FIAF

  • Mr. Toilet: The World’s #2 Man + Q&A with Director and Subject- 7pm- It’s a documentary about the world’s most passionate sanitation advocate. And yeah, they lean into it. City Cinemas

  • Get Out- 7pm- Blumhouse’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. Syndicated

  • The Nightingale- 7pm- Jennifer Kent is back after The Babadook and hitting harder than ever with her film about a woman in colonial Tasmania bent on revenge. BAM

  • The Thin Red Line in 35mm- 7pm- Terrence Malik’s Avengers assemble in this movie, where like 40 different famous actors show that war is hell and Pacific Islands are beautiful. Museum of Moving Image

  • The Ghost and Mrs. Muir- 8:15pm- Rex Harrison is the ghost with the boat in Joseph Mankiewicz’s classic. Metrograph

  • Moonstruck in 35mm- 8:30pm- Cher can’t keep her eyes off 80s Nicolas Cage. Checks out. Roxy Cinema

  • Drive- 9:30pm- Watch Ryan Gosling join Mads Mikkelson as the only actors who can make a Nicolas Winding Refn movie compelling. Syndicated

  • Pan’s Labyrinth in 35mm- 10:30pm- You know Doug Jones has a google alert set up for “Guillermo Del Toro sexy monster”. Roxy Cinema

  • The Forbidden Room- 11:55pm- Guy Maddin’s submarine drama, so obviously the crew is telling stories about Udo Kier. Syndicated


Saturday, Nov. 23:


Sunday, Nov. 24:

  • Miracle on 34th Street- 11am- I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus. And by mommy, I mean the district attorney, and by kissing, I mean charging him with a crime. Film Forum

  • Little Women in 35mm- 11am- Katharine Hepburn is such a Jo in this adaptation of Little Women. Metrograph

  • Planes, Trains & Automobiles- 11am- Before John Hughes conquered Christmas in Home Alone, he took down Thanksgiving. You’re on notice, Boxing Day. Nitehawk Williamsburg

  • While We’re Young + Q&A with Director- 1:30pm- Noah Baumbach directs this mid-life crisis comedy with Ben Stiller starring as Boah Naumbach. Metrograph

  • American Factory + Q&A with Director- 2pm- Chinese factory owners and American factory workers try to bridge their differences and definitely succeed in every respect. MoMA

  • Double Feature: In the Cut & Klute- 2pm- Meg Ryan and Jane Fonda star in these sexy thrillers that feature thrilling sex and sexy thrills. BAM

  • Working Girl + Q&A with Noah Baumbach- 4:15pm- Melanie Griffith overcomes Alec Baldwin and Harrison Ford to make it on Wall Street. She’s stronger than me. Metrograph

  • Marie Antoinette in 35mm- 5:15pm- Sofia Coppola takes on her Everest- Marie Antoinette, the most privileged white woman in history. Roxy Cinema

  • Black Mother- 6:30pm- Surreal collage portrait of Jamaicans from all social strata. BAM

  • Force Majeure- 6:35pm- Family sits with the fact that the father abandoned them when he thought there was an avalanche. Really sits with it. Syndicated

  • The Farewell + Q&A with Director- 7:15pm- A Chinese-American visits her grandmother in China to bond, overcome cultural differences, and learn life lessons. Metrograph

  • The Handmaiden- 9:20pm- Chan-wook Park’s wild NC-17 thriller about a new handmaiden hired by a Japanese heiress. Syndicated

  • Caravaggio- 10pm- Derek Jarman traces Caravaggio’s life and art. I don’t have any jokes- it’s a genuinely beautiful movie. Metrograph


What Else is Playing:

  • American Dharma

  • Atlantics

  • Battling Butler

  • Dark Waters

  • Downtown 81

  • Duet for Cannibals

  • Equation to an Unknown

  • Ford v Ferrari

  • Honey Boy

  • The Irishman

  • The Kingmaker

  • The Lighthouse

  • Marriage Story

  • Mickey and the Bear

  • Motherless Brooklyn

  • Mr. Klein

  • My Twentieth Century

  • The Navigator

  • Pain & Glory

  • Parasite

  • Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

  • Redoubt

  • The Report

  • Scandalous: The Untold Story of the National Enquirer

  • Shooting the Mafia

  • Synonyms

  • Tokyo!

  • Tokyo Twilight

  • Varda by Agnes

  • Waves


What to Plan on:

Nitehawk Williamsburg in partnership with Poster House is showing the wild horror movie Basket Case on December 5 and the film is introduced by the Poster House Chief Curator. It’s being shown in conjunction with the Poster House exhibition Baptized by Beefcake: The Golden Age of Hand-Painted Movie Posters from Ghana and the introduction centers on how movies like Basket Case connected with Ghanaians in the 90s.


Also, FIAF is hosting A Weekend Celebration of Tunisia on December 6-7, with food, theater and films. There is a Tunisian pop-up market with goods made in Tunisia or by Tunisians. They are showing two films on December 7, Beauty and the Dogs, about a Tunisian woman raped by police officers, and Dear Son (with a Q&A with the director), about a Tunisian father searching for his missing son.

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