The Taste of Iceland Festival invades New York City this week like a bougie Leif Erikson. And you know Andri Snær Magnason is gonna be there. Here's what else is happening:
Monday, Sept. 9:
Pierrot Le Fou- 12pm- Godard's mid-life crisis experiment. The acting is good, at least. Metrograph
Spirited Away- 2:15pm- Miyazaki classic where absolutely no one enjoys the wonder of flight. Metrograph
Under House Arrest & Testimony + Q&A with Stephane Vieyra- 6:30pm- Paulin Soumanou Vieyra's lone feature film plus a short by his son, Stephane, about his father. Metrograph
Strike- 7pm- Eisentein's first film ends his retrospective. Anthology Film Archives
Night of the Comet in 35mm + Introduction by Gilbert Gottfried- 7:30pm- So, Gilbert Gottfried was the host of USA Up All Night, so he's introducing cult classic Night of the Comet...sure, why not. Nitehawk Prospect Park
Film Noir Mondays (Surprise Film Noir)- 7:30pm- A surprise obscure noir film. Fingers crossed for Obscuro: the Shocking Detective. Film Noir Cinema
Undone + Livestream Q&A with Creators and Artist- 9pm- The first two episodes of the new show by the creators of BoJack Horseman with a Q&A afterwards with them and the visual artist behind the new show. Alamo Drafthouse
Son of Dracula- 9:30pm- Not the Son of Dracula from the 70s that starred Harry Nilsson and Ringo Starr. Somehow much much weirder. Alamo Drafthouse
Tuesday, Sept. 10:
The World is Yours- 4pm, 7:30pm- First film in FIAF's Isabelle Adjani series. She plays against type in this movie, which I think means that she smiles. She probably doesn't smile. FIAF
The Game Changers- 7pm- Documentary produced by Arnold Schwarzenegger among others about the myths involving protein and diet. JCC
Mobile Suit Gundam F91- 7pm- This installment in the Gundam series takes place 30 years after the events of Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack, if that helps. Nitehawk Prospect Park
Wednesday, Sept. 11:
Spirited Away- 12pm- Oh, "spirited away", like whisked away but also there are actual spirits involved. I get it. Metrograph
Zama- 4:45pm- Lucrecia Martel's examination of colonization. She seems to be against it. Metrograph
Perfect Blue- 5pm- Perfect Blue must mean something different in Japan. Metrograph
Double Feature: Cries and Whispers & Esther Kahn- 6pm- The last pairing in Lincoln Center's free double feature series. Lincoln Center
True Stories in 35mm- 7pm- Virgil, Texas is turning 150. Roxy Cinema
Cinema Unter National (Surprise Arthouse Movie)- 7pm- You're on a need-to-know basis with movies at Film Noir Cinema. Film Noir Cinema
Chained For Life + Q&A with Director- 7:05pm- One of the wildest trailers I seen in a while. IFC Center
Matador- 7:30pm- I don't what Pedro Almodóvar would find interesting about a story of an ex-bullfighter, who get turned on by killing. Alamo Drafthouse
La Grande Bouffe- 9:30pm- A glutten orgy. Literally. Alamo Drafthouse
Thursday, Sept. 12:
Pierrot Le Fou- 12:45pm, 9:15pm- Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina sure are good, huh? Metrograph
True Stories in 35mm- 7pm- Welcome to the Virgil Celebration of Specialness. Roxy Cinema
The Sound of Silence + Q&A with Director, Writer and Star- 7pm- Peter Sarsgaard tunes Rashida Jones's house. Which is not a euphemism. IFC Center
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe + Q&A with Writer and Star- 7pm- Filmed version of Lily Tomlin's hit one-woman show. Lincoln Center
Party Girl in 35mm- 7pm- Parker Posey is going to be 24 and hasn't done anything yet. Alamo Drafthouse
Chained For Life + Q&A with Director- 7:05pm- A movie about a movie about exploitation, I think? IFC Center
The Crow in 35mm + Q&A with Bruce Lee Biographer- 7:15pm- It's very hard to make a quippy joke about Brandon Lee and The Crow without being a huge asshole. Nitehawk Prospect Park
Ghoul Scout Zombie Massacre- 9pm- I have nothing to add. Film Noir Cinema
Sister Street Fighter- 9:35pm- "He's a one man army, she's a one woman death squad." Spin-off of the Sonny Chiba classic. Alamo Drafthouse
Friday, Sept. 13
9 to 5- 2:30pm- Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda are sick of putting up with Dabney Colemans in the workplace. Lincoln Center
All of Me- 5pm- Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin join forces, and bodies. Lincoln Center
Easter Snap & Hale County This Morning, This Evening- 7pm- Documentary follows the life of two young African Americans in Hale County, Alabama over five years. Metrograph
The Late Show- 7pm- Art Carney and Lily Tomlin get in over their heads investigating Tomlin's kidnapped cat. Lincoln Center
Boyz in the Hood + Introduction by Walter Mosley- 7pm- John Singleton's masterpiece about growing up in South Central LA. Introduced by Walter Mosley, author of Devil in a Blue Dress among many others. BAM
America + Q&A with Directors- 7pm- Documentary of three years in the life of a Mexican family as the family matriarch, América, ages. Museum of Moving Image
Redistribution + Q&A with Seth Price- 7pm- Art project that began as a lecture at the Guggenheim. Metrograph
Ms. Purple + Q&A with Director- 7:15pm- Two siblings care for their aging father in LA's Koreatown. Quad Cinema
Cracked Up+ Q&A with Director and Star- 7:25pm- Documentary about SNL's Darrell Hammond. I wouldn't miss it for the world, Trebek. IFC Center
Monos + Q&A with Director- 8pm- A group of kids are told to watch over a hostage in a remote South American village. Angelika
TVTV Looks at the Oscars & The Quiche of Peace- 9pm- A meta-documentary filmed at the 1976 Oscars. Plus a short where one of Lily Tomlin's characters goes to a gay bar. Lincoln Center
Poetic Justice- 9:40pm- Rhythm Nation vs. Histhm Nation in John Singleton's second film. BAM
Depraved + Q&A with Director- 9:45pm- Larry Fessenden's fresh new take on Frankenstein. IFC Center
Wicked City- 12am- Midnight 80s anime. Nitehawk Williamsburg
Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama- 12:10am- From the director of A Talking Cat!?! Nitehawk Williamsburg
Saturday, Sept. 14:
Olivia- 10:45am- Jacqueline Audry's film from 1951 about a girls boarding school. Nitehawk Prospect Park
Laurel and Hardy Shorts- 11am- I bet the thin one and the big one are going to get along in these ones. Film Forum
City Lights- 11am- Charlie Chaplin needs to get paid. Metrograph
Uta No Prince-Sama - Maji Love Kingdom Movie- 11am- I don't...I don't know where to start with this one. City Cinemas
Jawbreaker in 35mm- 11am- Rose McGowan. Nitehawk Williamsburg
Your Name (Kimi no na wa)- 12pm- 2016 anime film about two high school students who switch bodies. Museum of Moving Image
J.T.- 2pm- Jane Wagner-written film about a small boy in Harlem who cares for a badly-injured cat. Lincoln Center
Double Feature: Invisible Adversaries & Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)- 2pm- Austrian experimental film and Donald Sutherland's o face in this double feature. BAM
The Incredible Shrinking Woman- 3:30pm- Lily Tomlin gets small. Lincoln Center
America + Q&A with Directors- 4pm, 6pm- A family in Colima, Mexico reunites after the grandmother has an accident and has to work out how to care for her as she ages. Museum of Moving Image
Monos + Q&A with Director- 5:20pm- One of the most exciting trailers I've seen in a while. Angelika
Conversation with Hilton Als, Lily Tomlin, and Jane Wagner- 5:30pm- White Girls author and series organizer Hilton Als talks with Tomlin and Wagner. Lincoln Center
Maiden- 6pm- The story of the first all-female crew in the Whitbread Round the World Race. Syndicated
Rosewood- 6:45pm- John Singleton film about the 1923 Rosewood, Florida lynchings. BAM
Easter Snap & Hale County This Morning, This Evening- 7pm- Growing up, I used to visit my grandparents each summer in Cottonwood, Alabama. There's no normal part of Alabama. Metrograph
Cracked Up+ Q&A with Director and Star- 7:25pm- Hammond details a number of the mental issues he's struggled with in this documentary. IFC Center
Nashville + Introduction by Lily Tomlin- 7:30pm- Robert Altman makes the best film about a place and time ever made. The best one never made is Peachtree Streetz, my screenplay about Atlanta, which has been sitting on the blacklist for years. Lincoln Center
Matchsticks + Q&A with Directors- 8pm- A series of shorts, a poetry reading, and a Q&A with the directors. Metrograph
2 Fast 2 Furious- 9:40pm- Ludacris in, Ja Rule out- let's go! BAM
Depraved + Q&A with Director- 9:45pm- It's Frankenstein set in Brooklyn but not Frankenstein in Brooklyn. That's my Eddie Murphy fanfic. Ok, slashfic. IFC Center
Wicked City- 12am- Yes, there are giveaways at this screening. Nitehawk Williamsburg
Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama- 12:10am- David DeCoteau also directed A Talking Pony!?! and My Stepbrother is a Vampire!?! Nitehawk Williamsburg
Sunday, Sept. 1
Olivia- 10:45am- Tension in a boarding school? Only in the movies! Nitehawk Prospect Park
Laurel and Hardy Shorts- 11am- That got out of hand fast. Film Forum
City Lights- 11am- Chaplin forgot to sign up for the company vision insurance. Metrograph
Jawbreaker in 35mm- 11am- I said, Rose McGowan. Nitehawk Williamsburg
Your Name (Kimi no na wa)- 12pm- I'm jealous of whoever would get to switch bodies with me. Can you imagine getting my body for the first time? Museum of Moving Image
9 to 5- 2pm- This will probably come up during their annual reviews. Lincoln Center
Maiden- 3:30pm- I read this as the Whitebread Round the World Race so many times. It seemed so on the nose. Syndicated
All of Me- 4:15pm- Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin get real personal. Lincoln Center
True Stories in 35mm- 5:30pm- "Finally, it's David Byrne's time to shine" thought David Byrne. Roxy Cinema
Lily Tomlin- 6:15pm- Documentary capturing the creation of The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe. Lincoln Center
Big Business- 8:15pm- Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin play two sets of identical twins that got switched at birth. They probably never reunite. Lincoln Center
Live Flesh- 9pm- Pedro Almodovar made movie where Javier Bardem is a wheelchair basketball star. And other stuff, I guess. Alamo Drafthouse
What Else is Playing:
Anthology Film Archives's Vito Acconci and Takashi Makino Programs
Film Noir Cinema's Shortfish: Iceland's Premier Short Film Festival
New York Philharmonic's Art of the Score series with Close Encounters of a Third Kind and Psycho.
Aga
Another Day of Life
Aquarela
The Art of Self-Defense
Before You Know It
Blue Velvet
Cold Case Hammarskjöld
Edie
End of the Century
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
Give Me Liberty
The Harvesters
Haunt
Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel
Jinn
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Le Rayon Vert
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of my Voice
The Load
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Mr. Klein
The Nightingale
Official Secrets
Promise at Dawn
Raising Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins
Ready or Not
Satanic Panic
Say Amen, Somebody
Tel Aviv on Fire
Tigers Are Not Afraid
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
Vivre Sa Vie
What to Plan on:
The Metrograph is showing Goodfellas on 35mm on Sunday, September 22 at 5pm with a Q&A with the producer (Irwin Winkler) and writer (Nick Pileggi). Winkler has had a 50-year career, producing a number of Scorsese films, all of the Rocky movies, and many others, and Pileggi adapted his own book "Wiseguy" for the Goodfellas screenplay.
Also, the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF)'s Crossing the Line Festival begins September 12. Peter Brook will be there with a new production co-written and directed by him and his long-time collaborator Marie-Hélène Estienne. Brook is one of the greatest theater directors of all time, and the director of brilliant film adaptations of Lord of the Flies and Marat/Sade. He is the smartest person I've ever heard talk about theater. The new production is called Why? and it runs from Sept. 21-Oct. 6 at the Theatre for a New Audience.
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