GetReel 1.17.19

MANHATTAN

There’s a lot going on at The Metrograph in the coming week. Kay Francis: The Queen Of Pleasure continues this weekend with Let’s Go Native (1930) and Lubitsh’s Trouble In Paradise (1932). She’s one of those major stars from the early 30s who’s relatively forgotten today: a dark beauty with a striking screen presence who certainly deserves to be remembered. This series runs through February 3. 

Also, an Orson Welles film from 2018? The Other Side Of The Wind, the master’s final film has been completed by Welles’ collaborators and screens this weekend. Featuring a cast including John Huston, Peter Bogdanovich, Susan Strasberg, Norman Foster, Mercedes McCambridge and many more.

And Ronald Bronstein, co-editor and publisher of the book R. Crumb’s Dream Diary, will be in the house to introduce the film Crumb.(1994), which explores the genius and deep dysfunction of underground cartoonist R. Crumb and his brothers Maxon and Charles (Charles committed suicide 1992).  

The Metrograph is located at 209 West Houston St.

At The Museum of Modern Art, Modern Matinees: Sir Sidney Poitier continues with:

• A Raisin In The Sun (1961) January 18
• A Patch Of Blue (1965) January 23
• They Call Me Mr. Tibbs! (1970) January 24

Sir Sidney Poitier runs through February 28. For complete info and show times,  CLICK HERE.

To Save and Project: The 16th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation also continues, with:

• Crime Wave (1954) on January 19, 
• Night Tide (1961) January 20
• Orphans at MoMA: Rarities of African American and LGBTQ Cinema—and More January 21
• The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) January 22
• Faust (1926) January 24

This 1926 version of the Goethe legend, directed by by the great F.W. Murnau, is a soaring, surreal visual trip. The silent film at its best.

To Save and Project runs through January 31. For complete info and show times,  CLICK HERE. MoMA is located at 11 West 53 St.

Film Forum kicks off FAR-OUT IN THE 70s: A New Wave of Comedy, 1969–1979, a four week fest featuring dozens of film form the decade including Animal House, Monty Python and The Holy Grail, Pink Flamingos, American Graffitti, and many, many more. Film Forum Jr., the ongoing week-end kids fest, will be screening Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory (1971). Film Forum is located at 209 West Houston St.

City Symphonies continues at Anthology Film Archives. The series will feature some of the seminal films of this genre, as well as a diverse selection of films documenting city life, city landscape, city rhythms. This weeks features another packed schedule, including cinematic explorations of Belgrade, Chicago, Lisbon, New York, and Paris. Anthology Film Archives is located at 32 Second Avenue (at 2nd St.)

ETC.

At The Quad, Pictures of Polite Society: Henry James at the Movies concludes with:

• The Heiress (1949) 
• The Innocents (1961)
• The Lost Moment (1947)

The International Film Center begins Late Night Favorites Winter 2019 on Friday with 2001 A Space Odyssey (1968).

NEW JERSEY

West Orange Film Festival 

• 1/20/19: Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

Screenings are at the AMC DINE-IN Essex Green 9 in West Orange.

This week we begin listing screenings at local libraries

Madison – Some Like it Hot (1959) January 23

Montclair – I Want To Live! (1958) January 23

Springfield – Butch Cassidy and a Sundance Kid (1969) January 24

ETC.

Suffern, N.Y. The Lafayette Theater – It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) January 19