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No Film Week: Nov. 11-17

  • David White
  • Nov 10, 2019
  • 8 min read

It’s French Cinema Week in New York City and just like in The King, these beautiful-haired Dauphins are coming over here to tell us how we will die and question our wieners. And I’m terrified- Charlotte Gainsbourg is in my head and she’s close to breaking me. So I’ll be hiding out all week, but for everyone else, here’s what’s happening:


Series:


Monday, Nov. 11:

  • Burning Cane + Q&A with Director- 4pm- Winner of Best Narrative Film at the Tribeca Film Festival and also directed by a 19-year-old. *Sigh*. Metrograph

  • American Ninja 2: The Confrontation- 7pm- Michael Dudikoff is back for a confrontation, which shouldn’t be too hard, unless someone was genetically engineering super ninjas. But that would be crazy. Alamo Drafthouse

  • Lust for Freedom- 9pm- From the Troma Vault, a hard-hitting look at police corruption and misogyny. With the tagline “Bras & brawls behind prison walls!”. Film Noir Cinema


Tuesday, Nov. 12:


Wednesday, Nov. 13:

  • The Wayward Girl + Q&A with Star- 6:30pm- An evening with Liv Ullmann plus a screening of her first film. And more importantly, Liv Ullmann gets an evening with you. Scandinavia House

  • Fists in the Pockets in 35mm- 7pm- One of my favorite movies, Marco Bellocchio’s debut loves its family to death. MoMA

  • Critico- 7pm- Documentary about the relationship between filmmakers and critics. It’s mostly about breaking through the critic’s icy exterior by transporting them back to their childhood. Anthology Film Archives

  • The Honeymoon Killers in 35mm- 7pm- The American indie classic that mixes campy and verite-style filmmaking. John Waters loves it. Alamo Drafthouse

  • Underground Film Society: Stanley Sweetheart & Deep End- 9pm- Celebrate 1970 with the Underground Film Society. Film Noir Cinema

  • Decoder- 9:30pm- 80s Cult film about the power of industrial music to overcome corporate fast food brainwashing. Features William S. Burroughs and Soft Cell. I love it already. Alamo Drafthouse

  • The Wedding Planner- 9:30pm- There’s a very different movie in here from the wife’s perspective, where they didn’t just agree to be friends, that’s for damn sure. Syndicated


Thursday, Nov. 14:

  • The Swallows of Kabul + Q&A with Director & UN Experts- 6:30pm- Animated film about two young people in love in 90s Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. Landmark at 57 West

  • Miss Julie + Q&A with Star- 6:30pm- The second and final “Evening with” event for Liv Ullman includes a screening of her last film. Scandinavia House

  • Un Film dramatique- 7pm- A group of French middle schoolers are tasked to film their lives over the course of four years in this documentary that just won France’s biggest art prize. MoMA

  • Peggy Sue Got Married in 35mm- 7pm- Kathleen Turner goes back in time to not marry Nicolas Cage. Which is ridiculous. Roxy Cinema

  • Maid in Manhattan- 7pm- Jennifer Lopez is a professional working woman next to a rich white man, so obviously he whisks her away. Syndicated

  • Freeway II: Confessions of a Trick Baby- 7:30pm- Fuck off the Highlander II: The Quickening, there’s a next sequel name champion in town. Alamo Drafthouse


Friday, Nov. 15:

  • Gimmie Shelter- 10am- Altamont alta-day, baby. MoMA is showing Gimmie Shelter all day. MoMA

  • My Twentieth Century- 5pm- My absolute favorite 1989 Hungarian fairy tale that is beautifully shot and also won a prize at Cannes. Museum of Moving Image

  • Dragged Across Concrete + Q&A with Director- 7pm- The probably fascist, all caps PROBLEMATIC new movie from the director of Bone Tomahawk starring great guys Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn. And you can ask the director why he’s doing this. MoMA

  • The Hottest August + Q&A with Director- 7pm- Documentary that asks New Yorkers about the future during a heat wave. The answers may surprise you. JK, they’re upset. BAM

  • Badlands in 35mm- 7pm- Martin Sheen is the sexiest murderer this side of Sioux Falls. Museum of Moving Image

  • Edge of Democracy + Q&A with Director- 7:30pm- Documentary about the rise and fall of two Brazilian presidents and its effects on the country. Museum of Moving Image

  • Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project + Q&A with Director- 8pm- Documentary about Philadelphia activist and media watchdog, Marion Stokes, who recorded her TV 24 hours a day in order to monitor how what we watch affects us as a society. I mostly watched Stevan Segal movies on USA, so negatively, I’m guessing. Metrograph

  • The Architecture of Doom in 35mm- 8pm- 1989 documentary about how the Nazis used art and architecture to further their regime. Metrograph


Saturday, Nov. 16:

  • Coming Out in 35mm- 10:45am- The only East German film ever made about gay life premiered the day the Berlin wall came down. Nitehawk Williamsburg

  • Thoroughly Modern Millie- 11am- Julie Andrews, Mary Tyler Moore, and Carol Channing encounter, as IMDb describes, “flappers, sexuality and white slavers” in this comedy classic. Film Forum

  • Gremlins- 11am- Now I have another reason to hate Christmas. Metrograph

  • The Ice Harvest- 11am- Harold Ramis’s dark crime comedy about why you shouldn’t trust Billy Bob Thornton. Which should be obvious, John Cusack. IFC Center

  • All That Heaven Allows- 11am- Douglas Sirk and Rock Hudson make you forget about what everyone at the country club is saying. Nitehawk Prospect Park

  • Three Kings- 12:30pm- All George Clooney, Mark Walhberg, and Ice Cube want out of Desert Storm are life-long friendships and a little gold. MoMA PS1

  • Working Girl in 35mm + Intro by Mike Nichols Biographers- 1pm- Harrison Ford and Melanie Griffith climb the corporate ladder of 80s Wall Street. Museum of Moving Image

  • Attica in 16mm- 1:30pm- 70s documentary about what led to the Attica prison riot and what happened afterwards. Metrograph

  • Edge of Democracy + Q&A with Director- 2pm- Around about 2016 I stopped making jokes about other countries’ struggles with democracy. MoMA

  • An-Magritt- 2pm- The Liv Ullman celebration continues as she overcomes her harsh Norwegian upbringing in this 60s film. Scandinavia House

  • Days of Heaven in 35mm- 2pm- Terrence Malick and America gaze lovingly at Richard Gere and Brooke Adams. Museum of Moving Image

  • Pocket Money in 35mm- 3:45pm- Lee Marvin and Paul Newman are modern cowboys in the movie I have a man-crush with. Museum of Moving Image

  • The Trial + Q&A with Director and Secret Guest- 4pm- Tim Heidecker is on trial for organizing a shoddy EDM festival that killed 20 concertgoers. Plus the director and a “secret” guest! Museum of Moving Image

  • Jerome Hill- 4:30pm- Avante-garde look back at upper-class life in turn of the century America. Probably centers on breaking up railroad strikes. Anthology Film Archives

  • The Hottest August + Q&A with Director- 4:30pm, 7pm- Finally a film that humanizes global warming and the issues in American society. BAM

  • Klimt- 6:30pm- John Malkovich is Gustav Kilmt. And Gustav Klimt is a genius artist and pornographer? No, just an artist. Metrograph

  • Hugo/Jacobs/Levitt/Maas- 6:30pm- A series of avante-garde shorts for you, straight from the masters themselves. Anthology Film Archives

  • Madame Sata in 35mm- 7:30pm- Biopic about 20s Brazilian queer icon João Francisco dos Santos. Who must have been a hell of a person. MoMA

  • Overwhelm the Sky + Q&A with Director and Cast- 9pm- Radio personality Eddie Huntly isn’t going to take the murder of his friend lying down. He’s going to go to the park. Film Noir Cinema

  • The Room + Q&A with Director- 11pm- Lock up your daughters, Tommy Wiseau is on tour again. City Cinemas


Sunday, Nov. 17:


What Else is Playing:

  • 16 Bars

  • American Dharma

  • The Apollo

  • The Cotton Club Encore

  • The Current War

  • Dead Man

  • Doctor Sleep

  • Downtown 81

  • Equation to an Unknown

  • Everybody’s Everything

  • A Fish in the Bathtub

  • Frankie

  • Greener Grass

  • Harriet

  • Honey Boy

  • The Host

  • The Irishman

  • The Kingmaker

  • Light from Light

  • The Lighthouse

  • Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice

  • Marriage Story

  • Mickey and the Bear

  • Motherless Brooklyn

  • Pain & Glory

  • Parasite

  • Redoubt

  • The Report

  • Scandalous: The Untold Story of the National Enquirer

  • Synonyms

  • Tokyo Story

  • Tokyo Twilight

  • Waves

  • Where’s My Roy Cohn?


What to Plan on:

There’s two really cool music events coming up at Brooklyn Museum and Nitehawk. On Saturday, Nov. 16, Brooklyn Museum is hosting a dance party in honor of the opening of yasiin bey (formerly Mos Def)’s audio installation Negus. This is his new album and actually the only way to hear his new album- it’s not being released in any other medium. The dance party features DJ sets by the album producer among others, and the tickets also lets you listen to the album. The Wu-Tang Clan talked about doing a similar museum tour with their album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, but then ending up auctioning it off to Martin Shkreli, so it’s only up from there.


On Wednesday, Nov. 20, Nitehawk Prospect Park is having a tribute to legendary turntablist DJ Roc Raida, ten years after his passing. There is going to turntable battle footage and a discussion with fellow musicians Sean C, Rob Swift, and A-Trak, all telling stories about Roc Raida. After the event, there’s an after-party from 9-11pm.

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