beamish14 wrote: Tue Aug 30, 2022 11:58 pm
I’d love to see a comprehensive overview of Forman and Ivan Passer’s works together. Passer lived in L.A. and attended a number of screenings of his work, and I know Forman was on the East Coast and was present at some retrospectives of his films
Valmont screened in 70mm about 15 or so years ago at the Egyptian in Hollywood. Really curious to see if it still exists
Among the slate, we have an Isabelle Huppert retrospective, a Taiwanese New Wave retrospective, the premiere of EO and a new 4K Restoration of Paris, Texas.
Lincoln Center will screen in December a retrospective of the films of Yoshimitsu Morita, a name that is entirely new to me. Is anything of his worth a detour? I see one longtime user here has called him "the greatest director of the past thirty years" - if you really like him, what makes his work great for you?
I think it's a bad sign when they get notable guests and the screenings don't sell out: IIRC, David Gordon Green, Barbara Kopple, Sally Potter and Joanna Hogg's appearances this fall all had a ton of empty seats leftover. If it was another venue of similar size, I feel like those screenings would have sold out.
hearthesilence wrote: Tue Nov 08, 2022 8:37 pm
I think it's a bad sign when they get notable guests and the screenings don't sell out: IIRC, David Gordon Green, Barbara Kopple, Sally Potter and Joanna Hogg's appearances this fall all had a ton of empty seats leftover. If it was another venue of similar size, I feel like those screenings would have sold out.
They need to do a better job of announcing and promoting those events in a timely manner! Also, weren't the latter two during NYFF? That couldn't have helped.
hearthesilence wrote: Tue Nov 08, 2022 8:37 pm
I think it's a bad sign when they get notable guests and the screenings don't sell out: IIRC, David Gordon Green, Barbara Kopple, Sally Potter and Joanna Hogg's appearances this fall all had a ton of empty seats leftover. If it was another venue of similar size, I feel like those screenings would have sold out.
They need to do a better job of announcing and promoting those events in a timely manner! Also, weren't the latter two during NYFF? That couldn't have helped.
Potter gave two Q&A's at Metrograph and she did attend the NYFF as well but was not part of the festival like in the past simply because she didn't have anything to present this year.
Hogg did two Q&A's in between appearances at the NYFF. She was able to appear at Metrograph because the NYFF brought her into town.
Never Cursed wrote: Tue Nov 08, 2022 7:42 am
Lincoln Center will screen in December a retrospective of the films of Yoshimitsu Morita, a name that is entirely new to me. Is anything of his worth a detour? I see one longtime user here has called him "the greatest director of the past thirty years" - if you really like him, what makes his work great for you?
hearthesilence wrote: Tue Nov 08, 2022 8:37 pm
I think it's a bad sign when they get notable guests and the screenings don't sell out: IIRC, David Gordon Green, Barbara Kopple, Sally Potter and Joanna Hogg's appearances this fall all had a ton of empty seats leftover. If it was another venue of similar size, I feel like those screenings would have sold out.
They need to do a better job of announcing and promoting those events in a timely manner! Also, weren't the latter two during NYFF? That couldn't have helped.
Potter gave two Q&A's at Metrograph and she did attend the NYFF as well but was not part of the festival like in the past simply because she didn't have anything to present this year.
Hogg did two Q&A's in between appearances at the NYFF. She was able to appear at Metrograph because the NYFF brought her into town.
"Couldn't have helped" in that much of the potential audience was attending NYFF screenings instead.
They need to do a better job of announcing and promoting those events in a timely manner! Also, weren't the latter two during NYFF? That couldn't have helped.
Potter gave two Q&A's at Metrograph and she did attend the NYFF as well but was not part of the festival like in the past simply because she didn't have anything to present this year.
Hogg did two Q&A's in between appearances at the NYFF. She was able to appear at Metrograph because the NYFF brought her into town.
"Couldn't have helped" in that much of the potential audience was attending NYFF screenings instead.
Apologies, I read that too fast and thought the post was mistaking those Q&A's as happening at the festival, not Metrograph.
Pretty vanilla schedule from Film Forum for the winter, with 4k restorations of Rules of the Game, Conformist, Draughtman's Contract, and The Trial all lined up over the holiday season and then some Sturges from Jan to Feb.
Drucker wrote: Wed Nov 16, 2022 6:44 pmPretty vanilla schedule from Film Forum for the winter, with 4k restorations of Rules of the Game, Conformist, Draughtman's Contract, and The Trial all lined up over the holiday season and then some Sturges from Jan to Feb.
I'll probably get to The Trial and Shadow of a Doubt, also with a new 4k restorations, so there's that.
skilar wrote: Thu Nov 03, 2022 1:36 am
You're not. It reminds me of their seats: pretty but hard.
Shouting out this great post from two weeks ago. Metrograph has the worst seats in movie theater history.
Not sure how much longer I can get up any enthusiasm for the least joyful rep theater I've ever been to. They don't seem to have any real enthusiasm for the films they're exhibiting or for the art of exhibiting movies in general. It's just kind of a depressing, uncomfortable place. Not to mention the dozens of rats running the streets when you get out of a 9 PM show - it's about four blocks from the rest of humanity, which is a hard feat to pull off in fucking Manhattan
mfunk9786 wrote: Thu Nov 17, 2022 1:03 am
They don't seem to have any real enthusiasm for the films they're exhibiting or for the art of exhibiting movies in general. It's just kind of a depressing, uncomfortable place.
I'm convinced that whoever designed the theater had never been to a movie in their life. And I don't understand their popcorn situation.
Drucker wrote: Wed Nov 16, 2022 6:44 pmPretty vanilla schedule from Film Forum for the winter, with 4k restorations of Rules of the Game, Conformist, Draughtman's Contract, and The Trial all lined up over the holiday season and then some Sturges from Jan to Feb.
There's the new Mia Hansen-Løve, Un beau matin, though, which seems promising.
Yeah, but that's a Sony release so it's not exactly a programming coup. It opens at Lincoln Center on the same day and I expect it'll play at least a couple of other NYC venues.
skilar wrote: Thu Nov 03, 2022 1:36 am
You're not. It reminds me of their seats: pretty but hard.
Shouting out this great post from two weeks ago. Metrograph has the worst seats in movie theater history.
Not sure how much longer I can get up any enthusiasm for the least joyful rep theater I've ever been to. They don't seem to have any real enthusiasm for the films they're exhibiting or for the art of exhibiting movies in general. It's just kind of a depressing, uncomfortable place. Not to mention the dozens of rats running the streets when you get out of a 9 PM show - it's about four blocks from the rest of humanity, which is a hard feat to pull off in fucking Manhattan
I mean you're totally right and I keep on harping on this point because as an early lover and booster of Metrograph I've really felt turned off by the change in vibe at Metrograph. It's been evident for years that the theater is really a front for a larger chic/media play. They care more about their streaming servcie and before the pandemic were focused on being an event space for premieres. But at least before the pandemic the programming was often great. It's clearly an after-thought at this point, and they just keep repeating the same chic hipster films (which isn't meant to be a slag on the films themselves, obviously).
This is going to sound like an extraordinarily bitchy thing, but COVID made my sensibilities align more with the atmosphere of the multiplex over the atmosphere of the arthouse and/or rep theater, and I don't know precisely why I associate that change with the pandemic, but I digress. If I can just go to a Regal to see something, I'd opt for that over the same film at an arthouse. I just sort of don't want to be bothered with all the arrogance and unpleasantness, or something. Get in and get out. Good snacks every once in a while. The show runs on time. I can see my buddy Maria.
That reminds me, BAM will soon offer beer, which feels at least a decade too late. (Local laws play a bigger role, but even venues in suburban Illinois had that ten years ago.)
BAM's another place that's kind of a pale reflection of its former self. It really spoiled me when I first moved here, and it's crazy to think back about who regularly stopped by to do Q&A's. (For example, Catherine Deneuve, Liv Ullmann, Juliette Binoche and Isabelle Huppert as well as Susan Sarandon with Paul Schrader, Richard Hell, Robert Redford with the real life Bernstein and Woodward....many, many more as well, and all within a few years.) It's still a fine arthouse venue. Spike Lee's even doing an anniversary screening of Malcolm X so it still has great events, but it was pretty crazy what it was like before.
Drucker wrote: Wed Nov 16, 2022 6:44 pmPretty vanilla schedule from Film Forum for the winter, with 4k restorations of Rules of the Game, Conformist, Draughtman's Contract, and The Trial all lined up over the holiday season and then some Sturges from Jan to Feb.
So disappointing that these, in particular, will only be showing somewhere where they just won't look very good.
He won the Oscar for writing Moonstruck over James L Brooks for Broadcast News and immediately parlayed it into writing one of the worst (and frankly inexplicable) films of the era, the January Man— be glad they’re sparing you of that one
domino harvey wrote: Fri Nov 18, 2022 7:43 pm
He won the Oscar for writing Moonstruck over James L Brooks for Broadcast News and immediately parlayed it into writing one of the worst (and frankly inexplicable) films of the era, the January Man— be glad they’re sparing you of that one
January Man is a fascinating misfire. A serial killer procedural wrapped around a pretty generic rom com. Kevin Kline appeared on Alec Baldwin’s podcast some years ago and discussed a film that was all over the place in terms of tone and a miserable experience to make, and you can probably guess that it was that
