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FWIW, what MoMA is calling the NY premiere of Lobster Films' new restoration of Buster Keaton's Our Hospitality will screen in MoMA's Sculpture Garden tomorrow night at 8:30 p.m. (The restoration was based in part on a print in MoMA's collection.)

(Screens again on Wednesday, July 21, but at 3 pm in the afternoon in either of MoMA's two main theaters.)

Ribs wrote: Wed Jul 14, 2021 4:19 pm The Paris will be reopening next month also with an actual rep series - which I don’t think has been formally announced yet but should be soon. But they’re committed to 35mm or 70mm (they got a 70mm projector when they renovated for some reason) for their rep showings.

Just a reminder that this is now under ownership by Netflix

Yes, but it’s programmed by David Schwartz formerly of the Museum of the Moving Image. There will be real programming there, mostly on 35, in between Netflix releases. And thankfully they will program it sensibly with shifting titles and not show movies like Never Look Away for five full months.

I haven't been there in years but am looking forward to attending more often

The Paris has announced its programming for August, beginning next week. First will be a week programmed by Radha Blank, showing John Cassavetes’s Shadows, Robert Townsend’s Hollywood Shuffle, and Billy Wilder’s The Apartment; Sidney Lumet’s Dog Day Afternoon; Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank; Kathleen Collins’s Losing Ground; Nick Castle’s Tap; Christopher Guest’s Waiting for Guffman; and Hal Ashby’s The Last Detail.

Then for the next two weeks will be a series entirely devoted to movies that historically opened at the Paris:

Claude Lelouch’s A Man and a Woman
Bertrand Blier’s Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet
Louis Malle’s The Lovers
Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan (with Stillman in person)
Albert & David Maysles’s Grey Gardens
Jean-Luc Godard’s Vivre Sa Vie
Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Amélie
Alfred Hitchcock’s The Trouble With Harry
Mira Nair’s Monsoon Wedding and The Namesake
James Ivory’s Room With A View
Ira Deutchman’s Searching for Mr. Rugoff (with Ira Deutchman in person) (this didn't open there, it's a new doc about the man who ran the theater for many years)
Marcel Carne’s Children of Paradise
Todd Haynes’s Carol
Roger Vadim’s ….And God Created Woman
Pietro Germi’s Divorce Italian Style
Henri-Georges Clouzot’s The Wages of Fear
Jacques Becker’s Casque D’Or
Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal
Orson Welles’s Othello
Luis Buñuel’s Viridiana and Belle de Jour
Just Jaeckin’s Emmanuelle
James Ivory’s Maurice and Howards End
Jean-Charles Tacchella’s Cousin Cousine
Alain Tanner’s La Salamandre
Terence Davies’s The House of Mirth
Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name
Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story

The operating ethos of the theater is "35mm if at all possible" which has me curious about titles like Metropolitan where Whit Stillman insists the DCP be shown because he likes it better than the print.

Where is the schedule listed? And any idea where it indicates what is playing in 35 and not?

They did a special announcement in Deadline for their reopening, the full details with schedule and what’s on what should come soon.

Here's the list from the press release (The Lelouch doesn't say whether it's 35mm or digital):

Claude Lelouch’s A Man and a Woman
Bertrand Blier’s Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Digital)
Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet (Digital)
Louis Malle’s The Lovers (35mm)
Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan (35mm) (with Stillman in person)
Albert & David Maysles’s Grey Gardens (Digital)
Jean-Luc Godard’s Vivre Sa Vie (35mm)
Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Amélie (35mm)
Alfred Hitchcock’s The Trouble With Harry (35mm)
Mira Nair’s Monsoon Wedding (35mm) and The Namesake (35mm)
James Ivory’s Room With A View (Digital)
Marcel Carne’s Children of Paradise (35mm)
Todd Haynes’s Carol (35mm)
Roger Vadim’s ….And God Created Woman (35mm)
Pietro Germi’s Divorce Italian Style (35mm)
Henri-Georges Clouzot’s The Wages of Fear (35mm)
Jacques Becker’s Casque D’Or (35mm)
Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (35mm)
Orson Welles’s Othello (Digital)
Luis Buñuel’s Viridiana (35mm) and Belle de Jour (35mm)
Just Jaeckin’s Emmanuelle (DCP)
James Ivory’s Maurice (Digital) and Howards End (Digital)
Jean-Charles Tacchella’s Cousin Cousine (Digital)
Alain Tanner’s La Salamandre (Digital)
Terence Davies’s The House of Mirth (35mm)
Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name (Digital)
Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story (35mm)

The Japan Society's Japan Cuts 2021 film festival is now screening (films are available to rent through 9-2, but can be finished until a few days after that).

https://film.japansociety.org/page/japan-cuts-2021/

The "biggest" film screening online is Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Wife of a Spy. And it is the first one my wife and I watched. Comments on this posted in the Kiyoshi Kurosawa Korner....

Film Forum calendar for October and November


This looks fun...

NOVEMBER 12 – DECEMBER 2
THREE WEEKS OF ROAD MOVIES
38 Freewheeling Classics
including Terrence Malick’s BADLANDS, Wong Kar-Wai’s HAPPY TOGETHER,
Ida Lupino’s THE HITCH-HIKER,
Spike Lee’s GET ON THE BUS,
Nicholas Ray’s THEY LIVE BY NIGHT,
Ingmar Bergman’s WILD STRAWBERRIES,
Steven Spielberg’s DUEL,
Jean-Luc Godard’s PIERROT LE FOU,
Alfonso Cuarón’s Y TU MAMÁ TAMBIÉN,
Gus Van Sant’s MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO, and many others
Selected titles supported by the Robert E. Appel Fund for Spanish and Portuguese Language Films, the George Fasel Memorial Fund for French Classic Cinema, and
the Robert Jolin Osborne Endowed Fund for American Classic Cinema

So what ever happened to this idea that the Paris Theater would be showcasing tons of rep stuff?

No one ever said tons, but they have been doing a steady flow of tie-in titles on 35 like the Magnificent Seven, Brokeback Mountain, The Piano, Red Desert, and a recent format focused doc series (not on 35 of course!) a few weeks ago that included the films of the Ross Brothers and Kirsten Johnson. Sadly it appears that now we are in the actual big movies on Netflix’s slate part of the year they aren’t doing two things a week like they had been but I’m sure in time it’ll appear again. There are definite plans for more real series like the Paris one, but they were never going to be happening in this time of year when the theater’s main value is a fixed home for the Netflix awards titles.

Totally missed this but Japan Society is presenting the North American premiere of a new 4K restoration of Sadao Yamanaka's Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo. Screening this Saturday (Dec. 11) at 7pm, it features newly-discovered scenes that make it the most complete version of the film extant.

I'm not a New Yorker but for those who are I recommend MoMA's "An Evening with Christopher Harris" this January, showing his amazing feature still/here along with a collection of shorts he curated. I had the pleasure of taking some college courses taught by Harris and beyond being a great avant-garde filmmaker, he's also an exceptionally thoughtful and commanding public speaker, the opposite of the canned answer festival Q&As many of us are used to.

The schedule for To Save and Project: The 18th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation is now up. MoMA hasn't rescheduled anything lately AFAIK (many repertory cinemas here have tweaked their schedules or closed altogether, partly due to the spike in COVID cases) so it's likely this won't change. Way too many highlights to name, just click on the link.

Coming to MoMA in February: Dames, Janes, Dolls, and Canaries: Woman Stars of the Pre-Code Era, an 18-film series featuring 14 leading actresses that "wherever possible, a concerted effort has been made to schedule films that not only show their talents, but also are either rarely screened, unavailable on home video, or have reputations unfairly diminished by years of terrible, murky copies." The actual program isn't available but it sounds like it should be a Major Event.

And one I'm incredibly jealous of before they even announce the program.

Has there been any word on a redo of their scrapped Nouvelle Vague rarities program from summer of 2020?

No, though they remounted their similarly shelved Participant series in October and this was apparently on the verge of being announced before the pandemic delayed it. So much like other venues like Film Forum it appears they may be cycling back to the programming they had promised but it could take a while to reorganize with print trafficking and other schedules. I certainly am most hoping that series appears as it seemed to me absolutely essential but who knows if it’ll work out.

Ribs wrote: Thu Jan 06, 2022 3:17 pm Coming to MoMA in February: Dames, Janes, Dolls, and Canaries: Woman Stars of the Pre-Code Era, an 18-film series featuring 14 leading actresses that "wherever possible, a concerted effort has been made to schedule films that not only show their talents, but also are either rarely screened, unavailable on home video, or have reputations unfairly diminished by years of terrible, murky copies." The actual program isn't available but it sounds like it should be a Major Event.

The schedule is now posted. It includes East Lynne, one of the earliest Best Picture nominees I always assumed I'd never get to see on account of only having one known complete print.

Tempted to see McCarey's Part-Time Wife but I saw Let's Go Native a few years ago and it was one of the worst things I've ever seen. Curious if anyone has seen it.

The times and full schedule for the Mifune series is now up. Seems like everything except Rashomon is in 35.

Given the less than optimal status of the blu-rays, may be worth catching Pandora and the Flying Dutchmen in 35mm.