Hustlers AND Rambo: Last Blood came out this week?? Then what the hell is the point of this? Fuck it, I already wrote it, so I guess here's what else is happening:
Series:
Quad Cinema’s Laws of Desire: The Films of Antonio Banderas (Starting Sept. 18)
Anthology Film Archives’s Lutz Dammbeck: Experimental Film Program (Starting Sept. 16)
Lincoln Center’s Two Free Women: Lily Tomlin & Jane Wagner (Sept. 16)
Syndicated’s Quentin Tarantino Retrospective (Starting Sept. 20)
BAM’s Purpose and Passion: The Cinema of John Singleton (Sept. 16-20)
BAM’s Animation Block Party (Sept. 20-22)
Museum of Moving Image’s See it Big! Ghost Story series (Starting Sept. 20)
Monday, Sept. 16:
Steel Magnolias- 7pm- The greatest collection of character names in film history. Alamo Drafthouse
Long Day’s Journey Into Night in 3-D- 7:30pm- Half detective story, half dream, all dimensions. Or at least 3 of them. Lincoln Center
Showgirls + Presented by Martine Gutierrez- 8pm- God, Paul Verhoeven hates America so much, it’s amazing. He’s the best. IFC Center
The Lady Eve + Q&A with Tom Sturges- 8:10pm- One of the best rom-coms ever made, plus a Q&A with the writer/director’s son. Film Forum
Quadrophenia- 9:30pm- Vroom, vroom! Alamo Drafthouse
Tuesday, Sept. 17:
Adolphe- 4pm- Isabelle Adjani is hard to get and harder to lose. FIAF
Heathers + 5 Course Meal- 7pm- Good news: this looks fun as hell. Bad news: tickets are $95. Nitehawk Prospect Park
Knives and Skin- 7pm- The Eyeslicer, the radical film/art/zine collective, is closing out Eyeslicer Fest with this feminist teen musical. Nitehawk Williamsburg
First Love + Q&A with Director- 7:10pm- Takashi Miike’s 103rd film looks appropriately crazy. But is it his craziest movie? No. No it isn’t. Angelika
Camille Claudel- 7:30pm- Isabelle Adjani and Gerard Depardieu star in a biopic of the pioneering French female sculptor. Both of them haven't aged a day since filming this movie. FIAF
Stuck on You!- 9pm- Somehow the Troma Stuck on You isn’t the shitty Stuck on You. Interesting. Film Noir Cinema
The Art of Self Defense + Q&A with Star- 9:15pm- Jesse Eisenberg puts the “white” in white belt. Metrograph
Wednesday, Sept. 18:
Leave No Trace + Q&A with Director- 6pm- Ben Foster plays against type as an unhinged person. Metrograph
In Fabric- 6:45pm- The director of Berberian Sound Studio’s new film about a haunted dress. It's sheer terror. Nitehawk Prospect Park
Tampopo- 7pm- The Japanese Ramen-Western-Trucker classic. It’s somehow even better than that description. Roxy Cinema
Putney Swope- 7pm- Putney makes a few changes For the Corporate Culture. Alamo Drafthouse
Midnight Traveler + Q&A with Writer and Producer- 7:50pm Documentary about the incredibly hardships endured for an Afghan refugee. Film Forum
Disobedience + Q&A with Star- 9:15pm- Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams are just friends in this movie about two people who are just friends. Metrograph
Split Second- 9:30pm- The killer that homicide detective, Harley Stone, is after in post-global warming flooded London may not be human after all. Alamo Drafthouse
Thursday, Sept. 19:
I’ll See You in my Dreams + Q&A with Star- 7pm- Blythe Danner and Sam Elliott are my dream grandparents and also something I think they start dating or something in this movie. Metrograph
Porgy and Bess + Panel Discussion- 7pm- Otto Preminger’s adaptation that stars the incredible Dorothy Danridge. Sidney Poiter, Sammy Davis Jr. and Brock Peters aren’t bad either. Lincoln Center
Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies: God of the Outsiders: Satan in Literature, Culture, and Entertainment- Old Myth and New Insight- 7pm- Uh, this is a lecture, I think. I don’t know. Film Noir Cinema
Jonas Mekas Tribute Screening- 7:30pm- Two Jonas Mekas films in this program about the Godfather of the Avant-Garde. Anthology Film Archives
Punk the Capital + Q&A with Directors and Subjects- 7:30pm- Documentary about the history of DC’s punk scene. People don't talk about it, but I was also banned in DC. For equally as cool and non-sexual reasons. Nitehawk Prospect Park
Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls Like Mom- 7:30pm- Almodovar's first film shows that apparently his film titles got less on the nose as they went on?! Alamo Drafthouse
Easter Snap & Hale County This Morning, This Evening + Q&A with Director- 8:30pm- A short and a feature film by RaMell Ross about African American life in Alabama. Metrograph
Below the Belt in 35mm- 9:30pm- A waitress becomes a professional wrestler in this almost definitely nuanced portrayal of female wrestling from 1980. Nitehawk Williamsburg
Shouting at the Screen with Wyatt Cenac and Donwill- 9:30pm- Wyatt Cenac and Donwill pick a movie and then heckle it. I’m in. Alamo Drafthouse
Friday, Sept. 20:
Where’s My Roy Cohn? + Q&A with Director- 7pm- Documentary about Roy Cohn, the Forrest Gump of evil. Film Forum
Christine in the Cutting Room + Q&A with Director- 7pm- A presentation revolving around early transgender celebrity, Christine Jorgensen. Anthology Film Archives
An American in Paris- 7pm- Vincente Minelli and Gene Kelly’s great musical that proved America was ready for extended scenes of interpretive dance. Lincoln Center
Memories- 12:10am- Midnight anime sci-fi anthology. Nitehawk Williamsburg
The Return of the Living Dead in 35mm- 12:20am- The best zombie movie ever made. It’s Party Time! Nitehawk Williamsburg
Saturday, Sept. 21:
The Virgin Suicides in 35mm- 10:45am- The least privileged white women in a Sofia Coppola movie. Nitehawk Williamsburg
His Girl Friday- 11am- The best screwball comedy of all time. Film Forum
The Red Shoes in 35mm + Introduction by Jillian McManemin- 1:30pm- Powell and Pressburger’s technicolor ballet freakout. It’s brilliant. Metrograph
The Phantom Carriage + Live Piano- 2pm- Victor Sjöström’s silent ghost story. With Piano! Museum of Moving Image
All About My Mother- 3pm- Never mind, Almodovar movies titles are all equally on the nose and great. Alamo Drafthouse
Where’s My Roy Cohn? + Q&A with Director- 4:50pm- Roy Cohn, the guy from Angels in America was also Trump’s lawyer??? Jesus fucking Christ. Film Forum
Hair + Q&A with Stars- 5pm- Treat Williams- the second best Substitute ever- is in person for a screening of the hippie musical classic. Metrograph
Paternal Rites + Q&A with Director- 6pm- A essay/collage film about the repercussions and damage to a family caused by physical and sexual abuse. Anthology Film Archives
Nashville + Q&A with Writer- 7pm- Robert Altman’s masterpiece that burned the phrase, “This isn’t Dallas, it's Nashville!” into my brain. Film Forum
Sunday, Sept. 22:
His Girl Friday- 11am- Ralph Bellamy plays a nice young man from Albany. You should be so lucky. Film Forum
Rambo Marathon- 12pm- Watch a franchise take the craziest turn from a story about PTSD to a glorification of the military-industrial complex. Hell yeah! Everyone wins every time! Alamo Drafthouse
Goodfellas + Q&A with Writer and Producer- 5pm- “I always wanted to be a Goodfella”- Hank Hill. Metrograph
Swarm Season + Q&A with Director- 7pm- Impressionistic documentary about Hawaii that looks at a local family, honeybee swarms, and NASA scientists. Anthology Film Archives
What Else is Playing:
Ad Astra
Andrei Rublev
Another Day of Life
Aquarela
Before You Know It
Chained for Life
Cracked Up
David Crosby: Remember my Name
Depraved
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
Hausu
Le Rayon Vert
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
The Load
A Little Princess
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Millennium Actress
Mr. Klein
Ms. Purple
Monos
My First Film
The Nightingale
Official Secrets
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood in 70mm
One Child Nation
One Cut of the Dead
Redistribution
Say Amen, Somebody
The Sound of Silence
Tel Aviv on Fire
Tigers Are Not Afraid
Tokyo Ghoul S
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
What to Plan On:
The Brooklyn Museum is showing the documentary Rudeboy: The Story of Trojan Records on September 26 at 7pm. It's followed by a reggae DJ set by Bobby Konders and a Q&A with Don Letts, the foremost British punk videographer, member of Big Audio Dynamite, and personal hero of mine. Letts has led an insane life- he was one of the main reasons British punk became so influenced by reggae, he managed the Slits, he made films about Public Image Ltd. and The Clash. He's literally on the cover of Black Market Clash. Right after the Sex Pistols broke up, he went on a long trip to Jamaica with Johnny Rotten and Richard Branson- if he says even one story about anything that happened on that trip, it would be the best Q&A ever.
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