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Featured Screening: A Cinema of Industrial Noise at MoMA

What’s Showing Today? Sunday, October 21
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Featured Screening: A Cinema of Industrial Noise at MoMA

Today MoMA‘s To Save and Project series features a program titled A Cinema of Industrial Noise, an eclectic selection of cacaphonous works variously preserved by the University of South Carolina, Sony Pictures, the New York Public Library and Tamasa Distribution.

The program begins with NYC Street Scenes and Noises, a Fox Movietone newsreel beginning with a presentation by the New York City “Noise Abatement Commission” measuring noise pollution in Times Square. Following the scientific demonstration, the Movietone news truck creeps through the street recording city noise from gradually shifting perspectives. Released 1929, it’s not only an early sound film but unique as a sync-sound newsreel, and therefore a unique sensory portrait of the urban area for its time—though visually static, a “city symphony” in a literal sense. (As another point of comparison, if Vertov’s Enthusiasm is thrash metal, this is perhaps the equivalent of Earth 2.) Authored by Dr. Seuss and directed by Bob Cannon, Gerald McBoing-Boing tells the story of a young boy who speaks in sound effects. Besides merely being a key predecessor of Police Academy‘s Larvelle Jones, it’s a touching outsiders story rendered through brilliant animation—jazzy shapes and flat, colorful planes occasionally making startling use of perspective. Maggi Carson‘s Punking Out is a seminal document of CBGB circa 1978 featuring The Ramones, Lydia Lunch and Richard Hell. Finally, Film theorist Jean Mitry creatives a visual industrial symphony in the style of Eugène Deslaw and Fernand Léger with Symphonie mécanique, which is distinguished by an electro-acoustic score from Pierre Boulez.

A Cinema of Industrial Noise runs this evening at 6:45 pm.

Also Noted

Egyptian filmmaker Yousry Nasrallah is in attendance at Anthology Film Archives today for a presentation of his 2003 The Gate of the Sun, a 278-minute adaptation of Lebanese writer Elias Khoury‘s novel spanning fifty years of Palestinian society and exile. The show begins at 3:00 pm.

The Doomsday Festival and Symposium concludes this evening at 92YTribeca with The Quiet Earth, a 1985 apocalyptic film from New Zealand about the final three survivors on earth. It’s been described as an unofficial remake of the underrated 1959 MGM film The World, The Flesh and The Devil, though its own reputation generally exceeds that of its predecessor. Earlier in the day, Doomsday Short Films includes a 16mm screening of Peter Watkins’s The War Game preceded by recent shorts from CHERYL, Soda_Jerk and others.

This afternoon/evening is 8mm Movie Matinee’s Haunted Hills of the Wild West Halloween extravaganza. From 4:30 to 8:30 pm 8mm film fans and horror aficionados will gather in the back room of Bar 82 for drinks, popcorn, entertainment, and small-gauge oddballs and rarities. Bar 82 is located on Second Avenue between 8 and 9 Streets.

This evening are the final screenings of Strangler Vs. Strangler and El Dependiente at Spectacle, two of my contributions to the SPEC2BER lineup. Strangler Vs. Strangler is a tar-black Grand Guignol comedy with a madcap sensibility. The story charts crossed psychic wires between a series of characters in Belgrade: a carnation salesman-turned-stranger, an aspiring New Wave rockstar whose song about the strangler catapults him to national fame, and a hopelessly neurotic detective tasked with sorting the whole mess out despite his increasingly lapsing sanity. Released eight years before Eraserhead, El Dependiente is startlingly similar in tone and sensibility. Set in a small Argentinian town, it features a series of eerily muted, nocturne encounters between a daydreaming store clerk and a mysterious, reticent young woman who catches his eye on the way home from work every night. Full of yawning, empty spaces, stomach-churning dread and punctuated with brutal, absurdist humor that’s guaranteed to leave no one laughing, El Dependiente is a rare and totally unforgettable gem.

Today

Doomsday Film Festival at 92YTribeca
Series Details

  • The Hellstrom Chronicle (Walon Green & Ed Spiegel). Details. Introduced by star Lawrence Pressman and followed by live insect handling demonstration by Margaret Stevens. Bluray. 1971. 90 min 1:30 pm.
  • Doomsday Short Films. Details. Work by SlurpTV, Soda_Jerk, CHERYL, Todd Chandler & Jeff Stark, Jillian Mayer, Alan Foreman, John Richard, Victoria Cocks and Mihai Grecu with Peter Watkins’s The War Game. 4:00 pm.
  • Apocalyptic Poetry. Details. Readings by Kim Rosenfield, Aaron Winslow, Trisha Low, Lanny Jordan Jackson and Andy Sterling. 5:30 pm. FREE.
  • The Quiet Earth (Geoff Murphy). Details. 35mm. 1985. 91 min. 6:00 pm.

The Films of Denis Côté at Anthology Film Archives
Series Details

  • All That She Wants. Details. 35mm. 2008. 105 min. 2:30 pm.
  • Curling. Details. 35mm. 2010. 92 min. 5:00 pm.
  • Bestiaire. Details. Video. 2012. 72 min. 7:00 pm.
  • Drifting States. Details. 35mm. 2005. 91 min. 9:00 pm.

On Romantics and Outsiders: The Cinema of Yousry Nasrallah at Anthology Film Archives
Series Details

  • The Gate of the Sun. Details. 35mm. 2003. 278 min. 3:00 pm.
  • On Boys and Girls. Details. Video. 1995. 72 min. 8:30 pm.

Salut les jeunes! Young French Cinema at BAMCinématek
Series Details

  • The Virgin, The Copts and Me (Namir Abdel Messeeh). Details. DCP. 85 min. 2:00 and 6:50 pm.
  • La vie au ranch (Sophie Letourneur). Details. 35mm. 2010. 92 min. 4:30 and 9:15 pm.

Harold Lloyd at Film Forum
Series Details

  • Speedy (Ted Wilde) with Look Pleasant Please. Details. 35mm. 1928/1918. 95 min. 3:10 pm.

To Save and Project: The 10th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation at MoMA
Series Details

  • The Lower East Side and Coney Island: Lost and Found. Details. Introduced by Ken Jacobs and Paula Gladstone. Work by Jacobs, Gladstone. 1934-1980. 115 min. 1:00 pm.
  • The Dumb Girl of Portici (Lois Weber & Phillips Smalley). Details. 1916. 112 min. 4:00 pm.
  • A Cinema of Industrial Noise. Details. Work by Fox Movietone, Robert Cannon, Maggi Carson, Juliusz Kossakowski, Federic A. Shore and Jean Mitry. 1929-1978. 57 min. 6:45 pm.

50 Years of James Bond at MoMA
Series Details

  • Diamonds Are Forever (Guy Hamilton). Details. 1971. 120 min. 2:00 pm.
  • Live and Let Die (Guy Hamilton). Details. 1973. 121 min. 5:00 pm.

Raya Martin at Museum of the Moving Image
Series Details

  • A Short Film about the Indio Nacional. Details. 35mm. 2005. 97 min. 2:00 pm.
  • Next Attraction. Details. Digital. 2008. 90 min. 4:30 pm.
  • Autohystoria. Details. Digital. 2007. 95 min. 7:00 pm.

SPEC2BER at Spectacle
Series Details

  • Strangler vs. Strangler (Slobodan Šijan). Details. 1985. 91 min. 7:30 pm.
  • El Dependiente (Leonardo Favio). Details. 1969. 78 min. 9:30 pm.

8mm Movie Matinee’s Haunted Hills of the Wild West at Bar 82. Details. 4:00 pm.

Ongoing

Wuthering Heights (Andrea Arnold) at Film Forum. Details. 2011. 128 min. 1:15, 3:45, 7:00, and 9:30 pm.
Holy Motors (Leos Carax) at Film Forum. Details. 2012. 116 min. 1:30, 4:00, 7:15 and 9:40 pm.
Wake in Fright (Ted Kotcheff) at Film Forum. Details. 35mm. 1971. 114 min. 4:30 and 9:40 pm.
Le Grand Amour with Heureux Anniversaire (Pierre Étaix) at Film Forum. Details. 35mm. 1969/1962. 99 min. 1:00, 5:30, 7:40 and 9:50 pm.

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