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David White
Oct 20, 2019

No Film Week: Oct. 21-27

Jojo Rabbit came out this week and I really hope Taika Waititi knows what he’s doing, because that trailer makes me extremely uncomfortable. I’m willing to pretend it never happened and see what else is happening this week:


Series:


Monday, Oct. 21:

  • A Shot in the Dark- 4:45pm, 9:30pm- Peter Sellers really explores the space in Pink Panther! Part Deux. Metrograph

  • The Two Faces of a Bamileke Woman- 6:45pm- Essay documentary about Cameroonian expatriate returning home and connecting with her family. Anthology FIlm Archives

  • Chez Jolie Coiffure- 8:45pm- Documentary about the culture of a West African hair salon in Brussels. Anthology FIlm Archives

  • Poltergeist- 9:20pm- Do not go into the light. Or the house. Or the tv. Or that big stack of chairs. Syndicated

  • A Night to Dismember: The Original Cut- 9:30pm- I hope you had the time of your knife. *stab*. Alamo Drafthouse


Tuesday, Oct. 22:


Wednesday, Oct. 23:


Thursday, Oct. 24:

  • Down to the Bone + Q&A with Director- 7pm- Debra Granik’s debut film about a drug addiction, which helped her cut her comedy teeth before Winter’s Bone and Leave No Trace. MoMA

  • Eggeling/Grant/Jacobs & Fleischner- 7:30pm- Collection of avant-garde shorts from the 20s to the 60s. Anthology Film Archives

  • The Lady Vanishes- 7:30pm- I know she was around here somewhere. Give me a minute. City Cinemas

  • Fascination + Live Score- 7:30pm- Finally, I’m able to watch erotic horror the way it was meant to be seen- awkwardly next to people in public. Plus live music! Nitehawk Williamsburg

  • Leaves of Grass + Q&A with Director- 8pm- I’m seeing double- four Edward Nortons! Also, did you know that Tim Blake Nelson directed O? Neither did I! IFC Center

  • Shouting at the Screen- 9:30pm- Wyatt Cenac and Donwill encourage your participation. Alamo Drafthouse


Friday, Oct. 25:

  • Night of the Living Dead- 10am- The MoMA is playing Night of the Living Dead for free, on repeat, from 10am to 9pm. Public domain is great. MoMA

  • Une Simple Histoire in 16mm- 5:30pm- Formalistic pioneer that follows a woman and child in Paris looking for work and housing. Anthology Film Archives

  • Psycho in 35mm- 6pm- She wouldn’t even hurt a fly. Metrograph

  • The Thing- 6:35pm- First goddamn week of winter! God, this is the greatest movie ever made. Syndicated

  • The Cake General- 7pm- Swedish comedy about a small town that tried to make the largest layer cake ever. What Midsommar was based on. Scandinavia House

  • America + Q&A with Director- 7:30pm- Garrett Bradley’s masterpiece short on black representation in film. Museum of Moving Image

  • S.O.B. in 35mm- 8:30pm- “Take that, Hollywood! And that!”- Blake Edwards. Metrograph

  • Madman + Q&A with Stars and Composer- 9:30pm- Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, Madman Marz. Alamo Drafthouse

  • A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night- 12am- Ana Lily Amirpour’s breakout about Iranian rock vampires. David Lynch is soooo jealous right now. Syndicated

  • Drag Me to Hell- 12am- How the hell did this not make the list of top goats on screen! Nitehawk Williamsburg

  • Hostel- 12:15am- “All publicity is good publicity!”- Slovakia Tourism Council. Roxy Cinema

  • Halloween- 12:20am- The first night he came home! Nitehawk Williamsburg


Saturday, Oct. 26:


Sunday, Oct. 27:


What Else is Playing:

  • The Addams Family

  • By the Grace of God

  • The Cat and the Moon

  • The Cave

  • The Current War: Director’s Cut

  • Filibus

  • Frankie

  • Greener Grass

  • Hustlers

  • Judy

  • Kinetta

  • The Lighthouse

  • Mister America

  • Mr. Klein

  • Pain & Glory

  • Parasite

  • Satantango

  • Stuffed

  • Synonyms

  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

  • Where’s My Roy Cohn?


What to Plan on:


Halloween is a movie holiday and basically every theater is doing something. A 1999 horror double feature/party, Bruce Goldstein, Heavy Metal, Psycho, Afrocentric Vampires, Bubs, and a lot of screenings of Halloween (and Halloween III: Season of the Witch!). But ones I want to mention in particular are the Brooklyn Museum’s film series The Most Scared I’ve Ever Been and FearNYC/Film Noir Cinema’s screening of The Tingler.


The Brooklyn Museum is showing three movies over three nights from October 29-31, where guests Jim Jarmusch, Jeremy O. Harris, and Zazie Beetz & David Rhysdahl show the movies that literally scared them the most. They are The Evil Dead, Eve’s Bayou, and Under the Shadow, respectively, and on Halloween, after Under the Shadow, there’s an after party. These are great, diverse guests, showing great movies, having fun- it’s perfect.





William Castle’s The Tingler is infamous for being the peak campy and gimmicky of William Castle’s very campy, very gimmicky career. He installed vibrating chairs (subtly called Perceptos) in theaters to shake during scary scenes, he hired fake audience members to faint, and then hired fake EMTs to show up and carry them out. He’s a goddamn master. And FearNYC and Film Noir Cinema are recreating the whole thing, which sounds fun as hell. Do you have the guts to sit in this chair?

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