ON THE BIG SCREEN
The New York Film Festival continues at Lincoln Center with a Special Event: Francis 
- The Godfather part two (1974) October 5
- Days of Heaven (1978) October 7
- Dodsworth (1936) October 10
It’s the black bird. It’s the stuff dreams are made of. It’s John Huston’s The Maltese Falcon (1941), playing at the Metrograph on Saturday, schweetheart. They’re all there: Sam Spade, Bridget O’Shaughnessy, The Fat Man, Joel Cairo. And Wilmer. Not to mention Gladys George, Lee Patrick, Jerome Cowan, Ward Bond, Barton MacLane and a cameo by Walter Huston as Captain Jacoby.
If you ever thought that Cary Grant belonged on Mount Rushmore, now you’ve got your wish. North By Northwest (1959) is this week’s Hitchcocktober offering at the Village East. Great Bernard Hermann score.
For more Hitch, head up to Yonkers, where Cary Grant teams up with Grace Kelly this time, in To Catch A Thief (1955). It screens on Wednesday.
Now, for something completely ridiculous: the Hopewell Theater presents the Monty Python and the Holy Grail Quote-A-Long. It’s in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, the television insanity that started it all back on October 5, 1969 on BBC1.
ALSO
- Mr. Klein (1974) returns to the Film Forum starting Friday.
- Rosemary’s Baby (1968) at the Nighthawk Cinema/Williamsburg on Saturday and Sunday.
- The Innocents (1961) at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria
- Young Frankenstein (1974) is on the screen as part of the Lafayette Theater’s Fall Classics series in Suffern, N.Y.
- In Pennsylvania, it’s House of Wax (1953) in 3D at the County Theater in Doylestown. October7
For a complete listing of theaters showing classic films in the greater metro N.Y. area, check out Where To Find the Flicks
BLU-RAY
The only thing to catch my eye among this weeks’s Blu-ray releases is 3 Silent Classics by Josef von Sternberg. Von Sternberg is best known for the seven films he made with actress Marlene Dietrich starting with The Blue Angel (1930) and including Morocco, Shanghai Express, Blonde Venus and The Scarlet Empress. This collection contains three of his best silent films. Underworld (1927) has been called the first gangster film. The Last Command (1928) is an early (and highly effective) Hollywood satire. The Docks Of New York ((1928) is a hard-hitting look at life of the waterfront.