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Go Ask Alice at 92YTribeca

What’s Showing Today? Wednesday, September 12
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Featured Screening: Go Ask Alice at 92YTribeca

Unfortunately, today’s intended feature screening has already sold out! Nuts! But the picture of a mustachioed William Shatner in Clark Kent glasses (not pictured: the word “COACH” on his sweatshirt) will remain for posterity.

Also Noted

The Breaking Ground series at Anthology Film Archives has its penultimate show today, including work by Peter Tscherkassky, Dietmar Brehm, VALIE EXPORT and Kurt Kren. Also at AFA: Michael Ritchie‘s directorial debut and first pairing with future Candidate star Robert Redford, Downhill Racer, and John Fante-scripted Nelson Algren adaptation A Walk on the Wild Side. The latter’s novel is the source of the powerful maxim, “Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom’s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.”

Film Forum offers two-for-one admission on a pair of Henri-Georges Clouzot crime thrillers today: L’Assassin Habite au 21 and Quai Des Orfèvres.

Tonight is the final evening to catch Sergei Paradzhanov‘s masterpiece Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, regarded as one of the finest Soviet films ever made. Tomorrow the Film Society of Lincoln Center succeeds its Ukrainian Poetic Cinema with the logical follow-up, a retrospective of conservative Hollywood film icon Christopher Nolan.

Songwriter Adam Green‘s The Wrong Ferrari is a feature film shot entirely on his iPhone—and, if not the first feature to be produced thusly, is no doubt the only one starring Macaulay Culkin along with appearances by Arrested Development‘s Alia Shakwat and Devendra Banhart. Green will be in attendance at Spectacle‘s screening tonight for a Q&A with select cast and crew members.

Today

Back to School at 92YTribeca
Series Details

  • Go Ask Alice (John Korty). Details. Amy Sedaris, Jill Sobule and Tom Blunt in discussion. 16mm. 1973. 74 min. 7:30 pm.

From the Pen Of… at Anthology Film Archives
Series Details

  • Downhill Racer (Michael Ritchie, written by James Salter). Details. 35mm. 1969. 101 min. 6:45 pm.
  • Walk on the Wild Side (Edward Dmytryk, written by John Fante). Details. 35mm. 1962. 114 min. 9:00 pm.

Breaking Ground: 60 Years of Austrian Experimental Cinema at Anthology Film Archives
Series Details

  • Program 9: From A to Z and Back. Details. Work by Peter Tscherkassky, Dariusz Kowalski, Karoe Goldt, Dietmar Brehm, Lisl Ponger, VALIE EXPORT, Kurt Kren, Michaela Schwentner and Johann Lurf. 35mm/16mm/video. 1967-2007. 75 min. 7:30 pm.

The French Old Wave at Film Forum
Series Details • 2-for-1

  • L’Assassin Habite Au 21 (Henri-Georges Clouzot). Details. 35mm. 1942. 84 min. 1:00, 4:40 and 8:20 pm.
  • Quai des Orfèvres (Henri-Georges Clouzot). Details. 35mm. 1947. 106 min. 2:40, 6:20 and 10:00 pm.

Capturing the Marvelous: Ukrainian Poetic Cinema at Film Society of Lincoln Center
Series Details

  • Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov). Details. 1965. 97 min. 6:15 pm.
  • The Stone Cross (Leonid Osyka). Details. 1968. 76 min. 8:30 pm.

An Auteurist History of Film at MoMA
Series Details

  • Vera Cruz (Robert Aldrich). Details. 1954. 94 min. 1:30 pm.

Oscar Winning Irish Short Films at Film Society of Lincoln Center. Details. Work by Terry George, Juanita Wilson, Martin McDonagh and Nicky Phelan. HDCam. 2012. 90 min. 7:00 pm.
The Wrong Ferrari (Adam Green) at Spectacle. Details. Adam Green in attendance. Digital. 72 min. 8:00 pm.

Ongoing

Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock) at Film Forum. Details. DCP. 1958. 128 min. 1:15, 3:50, 7:00 and 9:30 pm.
For Ellen (So Yong Kim) at Film Forum. Details. 2012. 93 min. 1:00, 2:50, 4:40, 6:30, 8:20 and 10:10 pm.
Francine (Brian M. Cassidy & Melanie Shatzky) at MoMA. Details. 2012. 74 min. 8:00 pm.

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