Thanks for the Use of the Hall

General discussion of films, and specific recommendations of films playing in the New York City area.

Saturday, August 18, 2007

Le Banc de la désolation: MOMA, August 19, 2007

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If you're a Chabrol fan and haven't yet disposed of tomorrow afternoon, go to MOMA for the 5 pm screening of Le Banc de la désolatio...
Friday, August 17, 2007

Bringing Up Baby

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I saw Bringing Up Baby 12 times in my first 15 years of film-buffery, and then let 20 years go by before my13th viewing last week. My first...
Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Godard; Bodily Functions

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I've been discussing Godard in the comments section of a post on Craig Keller's Cinemasparagus blog. I managed to work Bazin into ...
Thursday, August 9, 2007

A Double Life: Post-War Cukor

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A Double Life , the first film George Cukor directed after WWII, seems to signal a change in Cukor's ideas about the plastic aspects of ...
Monday, August 6, 2007

Ruggles of Red Gap: MOMA, August 15 and 31, 2007

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I've always been amazed that Ruggles of Red Gap was adapted twice before Leo McCarey got his hands on it, because his version seems so ...
Friday, August 3, 2007

Carriage Trade

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As a young film buff, I used to enjoy Jonas Mekas's rapturous writing about (mostly) non-narrative film for the Village Voice . I rememb...
Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Sweet Smell of Success

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Sweet Smell of Success is pretty much universally regarded as one of director Alexander Mackendrick's best films - in fact, it's us...
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