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Film Forum's Oct-Dec lineup.

In terms of Criterion-related news, we have: 4K restorations of Ichikawa's The Burmese Harp; Antonioni"s Il Grido and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg; All We Manage As Light (via Sideshow/Janus); and a run of The Wages of Fear. We also get a new Herzog documentary (Theater of Thought); retrospectives on George Stevens, Marlon Brando and the Ealing Comedies; and new 4K restorations of Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice and Let's Get Lost from Kino.

The runtime for Wages of Fear suggests that it won't be the original theatrical release.

Film at Lincoln Center will be screening a 35mm print of Anora from October 16-20

"Following on the success of the landmark MoMA exhibition Iranian Cinema before the Revolution, 1925–1979 and the astonishing recent rediscovery of Mohammad Reza Aslani’s Chess of the Wind (1976), the Museum presents a retrospective of the filmmaker’s work—14 newly preserved dramas and documentaries, some never before screened—that deepens our appreciation of this unsung master."

It runs from October 24th through October 31st.

Parajanov retrospectives coming to Anthology Film Archives and UCLA. The series are mostly the same but weirdly, the New York series seems to be missing "The Confession" - the surviving footage of Parajanov's last unfinished film.

IB Tech print of Mccabe playing at MOMI this Saturday

Gotta be honest, being off of Twitter I totally miss this stuff now. Do others? I can't make it and am kicking myself.

More Altman. Nitehawk playing a bunch of his films over January, worth calling out MASH in 35mm Jan 4-5 in Williamsburg, and a screening of A Wedding on Jan 21 (digital) Williamsburg.

Jerry Schatzberg retrospective began tonight at MoMA. He was scheduled to appear at a few screenings, but things took a horrific turn tonight when he fell down the stairs as he was getting on to the stage. The museum sent everyone home and said they would send out an update. I've been more sensitive to this as I've been going to more jazz shows with elderly performers, but definitely give your elderly friends and relatives a hand whenever they're moving around if you can tell they're starting to slow down.

hearthesilence wrote: Sat Feb 01, 2025 3:31 am Jerry Schatzberg retrospective began tonight at MoMA. He was scheduled to appear at a few screenings, but things took a horrific turn tonight when he fell down the stairs as he was getting on to the stage. The museum sent everyone home and said they would send out an update. I've been more sensitive to this as I've been going to more jazz shows with elderly performers, but definitely give your elderly friends and relatives a hand whenever they're moving around if you can tell they're starting to slow down.

Oh my god. That is horrible. He was here in Los Angeles recently with Al Pacino

beamish14 wrote: Sat Feb 01, 2025 6:26 pm

hearthesilence wrote: Sat Feb 01, 2025 3:31 am Jerry Schatzberg retrospective began tonight at MoMA. He was scheduled to appear at a few screenings, but things took a horrific turn tonight when he fell down the stairs as he was getting on to the stage. The museum sent everyone home and said they would send out an update. I've been more sensitive to this as I've been going to more jazz shows with elderly performers, but definitely give your elderly friends and relatives a hand whenever they're moving around if you can tell they're starting to slow down.

Oh my god. That is horrible. He was here in Los Angeles recently with Al Pacino

There's been an update on his Instagram account:

schatzbergarchive wrote:Jerry would like to thank you all for your concern after he took a fall last night at the screening of Puzzle of a Downfall Child. He’s okay and in good spirits, and is being taken care of at the hospital. He appreciates you all coming to see the film and everyone’s kind words.

Big relief. It happened so fast and I couldn't see where he landed or where he was on the ground. Later on someone posted a secondhand report on social media that he looked unconscious which just made it all the more concerning. (EDIT: Someone responded to that post which apparently was wrong: "He was conscious when we left. He wanted to get up for the Q&A. We are waiting to hear he is okay.") I've never seen anyone fall down the stairs like that, much less anyone who's elderly (Schatzberg is 97), and even from where I was sitting, it was really horrifying to see.

Tickets are now on sale for the March 14th screening Sara Driver’s WHEN PIGS FLY from her own personal 35mm print as part of MoMA's series GIRLS TO THE FRONT: NINETIES AND NOW. (It's a great print - I saw it at Anthology when they screened all of her work after she was able to reclaim her films.) She'll also be there for a Q&A after the film, and as I mentioned elsewhere, it's also my personal favorite Marianne Faithfull screen performance. Good score by Joe Strummer as well.

Heads up, Atom Egoyan's new film Seven Veils has finally opened in the U.S., and he's in town this weekend for only two Q&A's at Quad Cinema. The first one was tonight, and it was actually not quite sold out - you could still buy tickets at showtime and there were a few empty seats in decent locations. The second one is tomorrow night (Saturday) at 6:45 p.m. and again, it hasn't sold out yet.

hearthesilence wrote: Sat Mar 08, 2025 4:00 am Heads up, Atom Egoyan's new film Seven Veils has finally opened in the U.S., and he's in town this weekend for only two Q&A's at Quad Cinema. The first one was tonight, and it was actually not quite sold out - you could still buy tickets at showtime and there were a few empty seats in decent locations. The second one is tomorrow night (Saturday) at 6:45 p.m. and again, it hasn't sold out yet.

When he came to Los Angeles to screen Adoration in 2008, the Armenian-American community was really out in force to support him. I imagine he might get a bigger reception over here, but maybe his reputation and visibility really has slipped too much

beamish14 wrote: Sat Mar 08, 2025 5:10 am

hearthesilence wrote: Sat Mar 08, 2025 4:00 am Heads up, Atom Egoyan's new film Seven Veils has finally opened in the U.S., and he's in town this weekend for only two Q&A's at Quad Cinema. The first one was tonight, and it was actually not quite sold out - you could still buy tickets at showtime and there were a few empty seats in decent locations. The second one is tomorrow night (Saturday) at 6:45 p.m. and again, it hasn't sold out yet.

When he came to Los Angeles to screen Adoration in 2008, the Armenian-American community was really out in force to support him. I imagine he might get a bigger reception over here, but maybe his reputation and visibility really has slipped too much

I have a feeling it wasn't promoted that well...but then again that proves his visibility really HAS slipped too much! The only reason I knew it was happening was because I checked Quad Cinema's website a few days ago. I then searched on social media, and one of the companies involved posted about it, only to receive NO reactions - but tbf the page didn't have many followers either.

This isn't the first time this has happened - I make it a habit to check various film listings every week because a lot of stuff just doesn't get advertised very well. I went to a Velvet Underground celebration/film program hosted by half of Sonic Youth once and it did NOT sell out at all - and I even ended up sitting behind 2/3 of Yo La Tengo by sheer chance - but the following week, I saw some people bemoaning that they were completely unaware of it.

New 4K restoration of Play It as It Lays at Film Forum until next Thursday.

There’s a René Clair retrospective at the Film Forum starting this Friday.

I completely get why these are almost all DCPs, with a number of them being (recent?) 4k restorations, but still kind of amazing that even a Rene Clair retrospective at Film Forum would be mostly digital.

My sense would be that the last 35mm prints struck for the Clair films are fairly ancient by now. Were any of them given a re-release by Rialto in the '90s or '00s? I don't recall any but my memory is poor. Clair has been fairly out of fashion as long as I've been a film buff, after a long period were he was one of the most cited directors around.

I caught up with LE DERNIER MILLIARDAIRE recently, and it was quite funny — a lot like Lubitsch's contemporaneous ruritanian romances — but not, I thought, an improvement over the stuff that preceded it.

I hope this retro is well-attended, Film Forum is definitely taking a risk by devoting so much time to it.

Save the date category… Film Forum playing a new 35mm print of 8 1/2 April 25 to May 8

Has anyone here gone to the MOMA’s incredible-looking Girls to the Front film series?

They just screened one of my all-time favorites, the Jane’s Addiction quasi-documentary Gift with co-director Casey Niccoli in person, and I’m curious about the format, as the MOMA’s website does not list it. A Q&A from the event has been posted online

In my experience, if no format is listed it generally tends to be digital. Have not made it to that series yet though so could be wrong!

Drucker wrote: Mon Apr 07, 2025 7:47 pmIn my experience, if no format is listed it generally tends to be digital. Have not made it to that series yet though so could be wrong!

I figured, but I was hoping to be pleasantly surprised! Stunned whenever that film gets a screening

I've been out of town so I sadly haven't been able to catch the series. I posted a heads up about the 35mm screening of When Pigs Fly, which is Sara Driver's personal print and she was there to discuss it. Had I been in town, I definitely would've caught that, but I did see that print at Anthology when they held a retrospective of her work some years ago and it did indeed look beautiful. Before Boom for Real, all of her films had been released on DVD in one compact set - it's now out-of-print, but I hope someone re-issues it on Blu-ray.