Monday, September 24

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What’s Showing Today? Monday, September 24
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Featured Screening: So Is This at Microscope Gallery

Microscope Gallery‘s events series continues this evening with So Is This, a 1982 film by Michael Snow comprised of a running text revealed one word at a time and deliberately paced.

Something of an inversion of the way films are often described with text, So Is This unravels as a sort of playful, self-reflexive investigation of both modes of communication. Ingeniously simple yet deviously complex, it’s a fun and cerebral exercise, which comes into that much greater relief when confronted with the task of writing about a film about language. As J. Hoberman describes, “Snow manages to defamiliarize both film and language, creating a kind of moving concrete poetry while throwing a monkey wrench into a theoretical debate (is film a language?) that has been going on sporadically for 60 years. If you let it, Snow’s film stretches your definition of what film is – that’s cinema and SO IS THIS.”

The film runs at 7:00 pm with $6 admission.

Also Noted

Pupi Avati‘s cerebral giallo The House of the Laughing Windows fixes upon a church fresco restorationist who slowly goes insane, eventually producing something far more terrifying than Cecilia Gimenez’s now-iconic botched job. It’s a major dark horse favorite of the cycle.

Playwright and activist Larry Kramer introduces Jules and Jim at IFC Center.

And at long last, Nirvana Night arrives at Spectacle. As programmer Ben Shapiro writes, “It doesn’t matter whether you’re a girl or a boy, a man or a child. Rich or poor, fat or thin. We can all agree on one thing: NIRVANA is the greatest band of all time.” I would qualify that with, “unless you are Steve Albini.” In any case, tonight is a super-mega fan comp newly created just for this evening of everything from classic interview clips to DIY fan tributes. It’s capped off by a “Secret Surprise Nirvana Film.”

Today

Giallo Fever! at Anthology Film Archives
Series Details

  • The House of the Laughing Windows (Pupi Avati). Details. 35mm. 1976. 110 min. 6:45 pm.
  • Bird with the Crystal Plumage (Dario Argento). Details. 35mm. 1970. 98 min. 9:15 pm.

Harold Lloyd at Film Forum
Series Details

  • For Heaven’s Sake (Sam Taylor). Details. 35mm. 1926. 68 min. 7:00 pm.

Yeonghwa: Korean Film Today at MoMA
Series Details

  • Blind (Ahn Sang-hoon). Details. 2011. 111 min. 4:30 pm.

Ride, Boldly Ride at MoMA
Series Details

  • El Dorado. Details. 1967. 126 min. 7:00 pm.

Richard’s Wedding (Onur Tukel) at BAMCinématek. Details. HDCam. 86 min. 2012. 7:00 pm.
Jules and Jim (François Truffaut) at IFC Center. Details. Introduced by Larry Kramer. 1962. 105 min. 8:00 pm.
So Is This (Michael Snow) at Microscope Gallery. Details. 16mm. 48 min. 1982. 7:00 pm.
Nirvana Night at Spectacle. Details. Compilation of lost interviews, rabid fan tributes and more followed by secret surprise Nirvana film. 8:00 pm.

Ongoing

The Tin Drum (Volker Schlöndorff) at Film Forum. Details. DCP. 1979. 142 min. 1:00, 4:00 and 9:00 pm.
Brazil (Terry Gilliam) at Film Forum. Details. 35mm. 1985. 143 min. 2:00, 4:30, 7:00 and 9:30 pm.
Radio Unnamable (Paul Lovelace & Jessica Wolfson) at Film Forum. Details. Subject and filmmakers in attendance at 6:15 pm. 2012. 87 min. 1:00, 2:45, 4:30, 6:15, 8:00 and 10:00 pm.

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