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Pandora and the Flying Dutchman 1951
Quad, DCP
Hands-down, one of the most significant repertory revelations of recent memory. Not quite like anything I've seen from this era, save perhaps for the hallucinatory final acts of BLACK NARCISSUS. Naturally, Jack Cardiff's mesmerizing cinematography on both plays a part. In a lot of ways this actually feels quite like a Powell and Pressburger production, albiet infused with a beguiling sort of atmosphere and magic. Adding to that ambiance is the narration of Harold Warrender as the archeologist,…
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Blast of Silence 1961
About 20 min in I got curious when the last time it played NY was - fucked around and realized it's at IFC (🐀) this weekend on 35mm. Kept watching tho b/c it was so obviously worth immediately seeing again.
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House of Tolerance 2011
Metrograph, 35mm
Extra half star for a perfect dismount.
Although,
HOUSE OF TOLERANCE Nights In White Satin scene
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FREE RADICALS Nights In White Satin sceneAnyway, of course this was booed at Cannes.
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Paranoid Park 2007
Metrograph, 35mm
I watched this 5 or 6 times during it's initial theatrical run - I was OBSESSED. This was my first time coming back to it since then, and I'm ecstatic to find that it holds the same mythical status for me.
Many films claim to capture the essence of youth, but few succeed. Even dicier are the ones that attempt to encapsulate the tectonically shifting landscape of trends in youth culture. The degree to which PARANOID PARK succeeds…
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The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting 1978
Though the paintings discussed are fictional, this is second only to Berger’s WAYS OF SEEING as a filmic exercise for affecting the way a viewer sees and interprets works of static art.
So dense with ideas that surely it’d collapse under its own weight if it were more than an hour long, it’s only fault is that it’s hard to keep up with the theories herein while the eye is distracted by some of the most achingly beautiful black and white imagery ever committed to film. A masterpiece.
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