JAN 2012 - 92nd Street Y

JAN 2012
FILM
Inebriated movie-viewing comes in many forms: it may
be a guilty pleasure, fantastical masterpiece, goofy comedy,
muscle-filled action flick... all experiences that are enhanced
with a couple of drinks. For this series, we will choose two
films tied together by a theme (that may or may not make
sense when sober) and screen them for one night only. For
maximum enjoyment, we encourage you to arrive early for
a drink or two at Cafe 92YTribeca. Other surprises are in
store, including guest presenters, quote-alongs and prompts
for audience participation. Round up your besties and make
it a Beer Goggles night! Come early for Happy Hour! An
hour before each screening, our café will offer $2 off most
beer and wine for movie ticket holders. And you can bring
your drink into the screening, too!
January’s theme: TV Land. Co-presented by Channel 101.
Fri, Jan 13, 8 pm
Scrooged
The holiday season may be over, but it’s never too late
to watch this 80s classic about a coldhearted TV exec
(Bill Murray) who gets haunted by three lesson-bearing
Christmas spirits.
Director: Richard Donner. 101 min. 1988. 35mm.
Fri, Jan 13, 10:15 pm, $10
UHF
A local weirdo (“Weird Al”Yankovic) gains control of local
TV station and its new oddball programming becomes an
instant hit. Featuring tons of sight gags and a pre-meltdown
Michael Richards!
Director: Jay Levey. 97 min. 1989. 35mm.
Sat, Jan 21, 8:30 pm
Año Bisiesto (Leap Year)
Winner – Best Director, Feature Film. Michael Rowe’s
debut feature film, winner of the Camera d’Or at the Cannes
Film Festival tells the story of Laura, a young journalist living an
isolated life in a cramped Mexico City flat, who is not lucky in
love.The banality of her daily life stands in stark contrast to her
nightly pursuit of sex and love.These short-lived affairs barely
take the edge off her isolation, but then she meets the brooding,
would-be actor Arturo.Their chemistry ignites feelings in
Laura that leave her deeply troubled.The two embark on an
increasingly dangerous sadomasochistic relationship in which
pleasure, pain and love merge.Their physical relationship
seems headed for a very dark place as her secret past resurfaces,
pushing Arturo to the limit in this intense, powerful and at
times deeply unsettling movie.
Michael Rowe, Mexico, 2010, 94 min.
In Spanish with English subtitles.
Sun, Jan 22, 1 pm
Nostalgia For The Light
Cinema Tropical in partnership with 92YTribeca is proud
to launch a new program initiative consisting of an annual
festival celebrating the best of the Latin American film
production of the year. The Cinema Tropical Festival
features the winners of the Cinema Tropical awards that
were announced at a ceremony at The New York Times’
headquarters on December 1 in five different categories:
Best Feature Film; Best Director, Feature Film; Best
Documentary; Best Director, Documentary Film and First
Film. The winners, which were selected by a six-member
panel jury, are great representatives of the vitality and the
artistic excellence of contemporary Latin American cinema.
Winner – Best Documentary. Patricio Guzmán’s
latest film is a meditation on memory, history and eternity.
Chile’s remote Atacama Desert, 10,000 feet above sea
level, provides stunningly clear views of the heavens. But it
also holds secrets from the past—preserved corpses, from
pre-Columbian mummies to recent explorers, miners
and disappeared political prisoners. In this otherworldly
place, earthly and celestial quests meld: archaeologists dig
for ancient civilizations, women search for their dead and
astronomers scan the skies for new galaxies.
Patricio Guzmán, 2010, France/Germany/Chile, 90 min.
In Spanish with English subtitles.
This month, actor/director Alex Winter will appear in
person for a Q&A after a screening of his cult classic film, as
well as to introduce his first on-screen work. This month’s
program is co-presented by The A.V. Club’s New Cult
Canon.
Sat, Jan 14, 7:30 pm
Freaked
Followed by Q&A with Alex Winter and The A.V. Club’s
Alison Willmore
Rarely screened and unavailable on DVD, this bizarro
funhouse comedy features Alex Winter as rising star of the
hit film “Ghost Dude,” hired to shill a new pesticide by the
E.E.S. (Everything Except Shoes) Corporation, only to be
kidnapped by a carny-show owner and transformed into a
hideous pus-squirting gremlin.
Possessed with a scrappy absurdism that plays like a cross
between the schoolyard slapstick of the ZAZ trio &
the frenzied lunacy of Mr. Show, the film offers a virtual
sideshow of anarchic weirdness—featuring machine-gun
toting Jamaican eyeballs (“Rastafareyes”), Mr. T as the
Bearded Lady and the cinema’s first flashback by a common
household hammer. “Freaked pays homage to everything
from Tod Browning’s Freaks to the stop-motion magic of
Ray Harryhausen, all while staking out a manically funny
tone of its own.” – Scott Tobias,The A.V. Club
Directors: Tom Stern & Alex Winter. 80 min. 1993. 35mm.
Sat, Jan 14, 10:15 pm, $10
Sun, Jan 22, 3 pm
Octubre
El Lugar Más Pesqueño (The
Tiniest Place)
Winner – Best Feature Film. Clemente, a moneylender
of few words, is a new hope for Sofía, his single neighbor,
devoted to the October worship of Our Lord of the Miracles.
They’re brought together over a new-born baby, fruit of
Clemente’s relationship with a prostitute who’s nowhere to be
found. While Clemente is looking for the girl’s mother, Sofía
cares for the baby and looks after the moneylender’s house.
With the arrival of these beings in his life, Clemente has the
opportunity to reconsider his emotional relations with people.
Octubre, the first feature film from Peruvian brothers Daniel
and Diego Vega, is a deadpan dark comedy incorporating
influences ranging from Jim Jarmush and Aki Kaurismaki to
Robert Bresson, and winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes Film
Festival-Un Certain Regard.
Winner – Best Director, Documentary Film and Best
First Film. Hailed as “one of the most impressive debuts by
a Mexican filmmaker” by Robert Koehler (Variety), Huezo’s
remarkable film tells the story of Cinquera, a tiny place nestled
in the mountains amidst the humid jungle that was ravaged
by the bloody civil war that swept El Salvador between 1980
and 1992.The powerful and hypnotic documentary depicts
a community that has learned to live with its sorrow, an
annihilated town that re-emerges through the strength and
deep love of its inhabitants for the land and people.With a
lyrical eye, Huezo interweaves the simplicity of the town’s
present life with tragic testimonies of the past. The Tiniest Place
is ultimately a story of resilience, hope and the ability of the
human being to reinvent himself after surviving a tragedy.
Daniela and Diego Vega, Peru, 2010, 83 min.
In Spanish with English subtitles.
Tatiana Huezo, Mexico, 2011, 104 min.
In Spanish with English subtitles.
Sat, Jan 21, 6:30 pm
Back in the latchkey-kid days of scant parental involvement,
limitless freedom and VHS tapes, there were certain films that
served as comfort food. These were the movies we’d watch
over and over until the tape wore out. Over the years they’ve
been ignored by the canon, dismissed as “so bad it’s good”
kitsch and relegated to cable TV purgatory. Turns out, they’re
more oddball, crafty and subversive than we remember. Basic
Cable Classics is a monthly tribute to those well-worn VHS
staples that still hold up all these years later.
Death Wish 3
Introduced by Alex Winter.
When his friend is beaten to death by a group of thugs,
vigilante Charles Bronson steps in to take revenge. Granted
permission by the police to kill punks at will, our hero
engages in all-out warfare (via mail-ordered rocket launcher)
against a reverse-mohawked ganglord and his band of
war-painted goons (including Alex Winter in his debut
performance).
One of the most sublimely bizarro riffs on Dirty Harry ever
filmed, with a body count that may very well surpass the
entirety of Ran, Bronson walks the streets like an outlaw
in his own private shooting gallery, dispatching creeps with
obvious glee. “The New York of Death Wish 3 is like a realworld The Warriors crossed with a paranoid right-wing smalltowner’s vision of big-city menace: a gang-infected war zone,
lorded over by the cast of Breakin’. It’s crazy, it’s violent, it’s
altogether stupefying.” – Scott Tobias,The A.V. Club
Director: Michael Winner. 92 min. 1985. 35mm.
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The Beguiled
Just Me and You
Wed, Jan 4, 7:30 pm
Wed, Jan 11, 8 pm
The Beguiled
Just Me and You
Part of the series Closely Watched Films,
hosted by Elliott Kalan.
Followed by Q&A with Louise Lasser and Meet The Lady host
Tom Blunt.
Wounded union soldier Clint Eastwood is the only man
at an all-girl southern boarding school run by emotionally
repressed headmistress Geraldine Page. Attempting to
manipulate the students and staff with his charm and good
looks, Eastwood opens a Pandora’s box of sexual jealousy
that can only lead to tragedy and violence. A bold change
of role for America’s favorite western anti-hero and a great
showcase for Oscar-winner Page, The Beguiled is the strangest
and most compelling work of Dirty Harry director Don
Siegel. A southern gothic tale of male/female sexual mind
games against the background of total war, Siegel seems
almost giddy to explode the masculine mythmaking of his
other movies.
The 1978 movie Just Me and You pairs cutting-edge comic
actors Louise Lasser and Charles Grodin as a delightfully
mismatched duo road-tripping across the lonely, automated
expanses of modern America. Written by the “Mary
Hartman, Mary Hartman” star herself (her sole feature
screenwriting credit to date), this deeply personal work
showcases Lasser’s uncanny knack for wringing huge laughs
out of the most achingly vulnerable moments.
Host Elliott Kalan and a special guest will discuss men
and women, the sexy side of the Civil War and whatever
happened to dream sequences.
Director: Don Siegel. 105 min. 1971. 35mm.
Fri, Jan 6, 8 pm
The House By The Cemetery
Part of the series Not Coming To A Theater Near You,
presented by the film blog. Special thanks to Blue Underground.
Lucio Fulci had helmed over two decades of work prior to
1979’s Zombie and during this time his films were beholden
to no single genre. Nonetheless, his ultra-violent, pseudo
sequel to George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead would place
him firmly in the annals of horror cinema and henceforth
he would be considered a horror icon alongside Dario
Argento, John Carpenter and David Cronenberg. But unlike
fellow Italian Argento, whose films are often set in his native
Europe, Fulci’s horror films depict fatalistic scenarios in
unmistakably U.S. settings as far-reaching as Louisiana (The
Beyond) and New England (City of the Living Dead). The
latter is depicted in The House by the Cemetery, his 1981 film
(preceded by The Beyond and City of the Living Dead in what
is popularly considered the “Gates of Hell” trilogy). The film
was hindered by censorship for many years - it was banned
in the UK along with other video nasties - and was not
released in this original, uncut version for over two decades.
Preceded by a 35mm trailer reel containing other genre
classics such as The New York Ripper,What Have they Done to
Our Daughters and Shaolin Challenges Ninja.
Director: Lucio Fulci. 87 min. 1981. 35mm.
Director: John Erman. 100 min. 1978. DVD.
Thu, Jan 12, 7:30 pm
Five Time Champion
With director Berndt Mader and producer Ezra Venetos in
person. Part of the series Festival Playlist. NYC Premiere.
Julius, fourteen years old and a reluctant science wiz,
grapples with his relationships with friends, girls and
family, all more mysterious to him than the worms he uses
in a school experiment. Rumors abound on his father’s
estrangement, his mother is dating his principle, and his
girlfriend wants to move fast. He can’t physically dissect
these people, so how is he supposed to know what makes
them work? With humor and heartfelt moments, Five Time
Champion features a charming performance from Ryan
Akin as well as veteran actors Betty Buckley and the reliably
strange Jon Gries.
Director: Berndt Mader. 92 min. 2011. BluRay.
to repeatedly insult a global terrorist with petty name-calling
and how to stop a moving car using a speedboat. Will this
meat-headed Sherlock Holmes solve the mystery of the
missing plumber? Or will the city of New Orleans suffer its
worst movie in recent history?
Bad Movie Night includes a trivia round, prizes and
a presentation by I Love Bad Movies and running
commentary by The Flop House.
Director: Renny Harlen. 108 min. 2009. DVD.
Wed, Jan 25, 7:30 pm
The Telephone Book
With producer Merv Block in person for post-screening Q&A
with Janus Films’ Brian Belovarac!
A super rare 35mm film screening of a forgotten classic
from the New York Underground! Sexually frustrated
gamine Alice (Sarah Kennedy) is freed from her apartmentbound malaise when she receives the world’s greatest
obscene phone call from one “John Smith,” sending her on
a picaresque journey through the Manhattan white pages
in search of its maker. As Alice encounters ego-crazed porn
directors, perverted psychologist and priapic shut-ins, her
trip grows more and more deranged, interrupted by firstperson interviews with phone freaks and climaxing in one
of the nuttiest half-hours of 1970s cinema. The sole directing
credit of “Saturday Night Live” writer Nelson Lyon and
produced by Merv Bloch, creator of some of the movie
industry’s best ad campaigns, The Telephone Book is hilarious
and disturbing in equal measure.
Director: Nelson Lyon. 80 min. 1971. 35mm.
Thu, Jan 26, 8 pm, $10
Thu, Jan 19, 7:30 pm
Broadway Danny Rose
Movie night with Iron Mule.
Woody Allen is Danny Rose, an agent to a roster of C-list
talent that includes a one-legged tap dancer and pianoplaying birds.
He finally catches a break with Lou Canova (Nick Apollo
Forte), a has-been lounge singer who wants to re-launch his
career. But the stroking of Lou’s ego includes a masquerade
involving his mistress Tina (Mia Farrow): Danny must escort
her to Lou’s shows because he can’t perform unless she is
there. Complications arise when her ex, a powerful gangster,
wants to rub out Danny.
Preceded by the short film Sanford Van Johnson: a Life Near
the Theater by Eric Drysdale and Chris Regan. 12 minutes.
2003.
VHS Trailer Show 3
Another round of trailers directly off of VHS tapes!
Some of us refuse to let go of our VHS tapes. One reason is
that they have become a treasure trove of trailers for movies
that time forgot. Being forced to scan past them each time
you want to get to the feature, you end up developing an
affection for these seemingly made-up movies. For the
VHS Trailer Show, we present you with our favorite trailers,
directly from VHS tapes. Armed with their favorites will
be Matt Desiderio (VHS Vault), Mark Freado (Junk Food
Dinner), Sean Price Williams (DP for The Color Wheel),
Cristina Cacioppo (92YTribeca’s film programmer), a special
segment of “VHS Trailers That Should Have Been” from the
Found Footage Festival and more.
We’ll also invite audience members to share their favorites,
so if you’ve got a tape, cue it up!
Director: Woody Allen. 84 min. 1984. 35mm.
Sat, Jan 7, 8 pm, $10
The Iron Mule Short Comedy
Film Festival
The Iron Mule Short Comedy Screening Series was
founded in April, 2002 under the name First Sundays at
the Chicago City Limits Theater in NYC and has been
screening monthly ever since. We are a collective of
filmmakers and film lovers who meet monthly to celebrate
funny and inventive short cinema among friends. Join us if
you dare!
This month includes a short that adapts famed cartoonist
Bruce McCall’s work, a film that investigates if Gandhi was
a pinch-hitter for the Yankees and this month’s “Wanna Be a
Star” movie, Russian Dressing.
Sat, Jan 28, 9:30 pm, $13 ticket includes one beer.
Fri, Jan 20, 8 pm
Bad Movie Night: 12 Rounds
Starting with the most illogical chase scene in film history,
Renny Harlin’s 12 Rounds gets bigger, dumber and funner
by the minute. Irish arms dealer Miles Jackson (Aiden
Gillen of “The Wire”, somehow stumbling through his own
native accent) taunts Louisiana cop Danny Fisher (WWE’s
John Cena) through a series of dangerous tasks in order to
save his wife ... as long as Fisher doesn’t accidentally destroy
the entire city first.
Hailed by bad-movie podcast The Flop House as “Dumb as
a brick, stupid as a bag of hammers and a movie we kind of
like,” 12 Rounds is steeped in important life lessons, like how
The House By The Cemetery
JAN 2012
The Telephone Book
FILM
Broadway Danny Rose
Beaches Sing and Cry Along
You’ve gotta laugh a little, cry a little, and where better to do
it than our Beaches Sing and Cry Along! Bring your best pal
along to experience this tearjerker in an environment where
shameless weeping is encouraged. Whether you’re more of a
CC or a Hillary, you’ll enjoy singing along to “Otto Titsling”
and yelling for Ahmed to send the heat up. We’ve got beer
(your first is on us) and good company, so don’t miss it!
Director: Garry Marshall. 123 min. 1988. DVD.
Other screenings may be added so be sure to check our
website for updates!
Beaches
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