By David Poland poland@moviecitynews.com
Screening Gotham–International Edition: March 17-19, 2006
A few of this weekend’s worthwhile cinematic happenings around New York:
–Fuck the Irish on St. Patrick’s Day and go to MoMA, where the museum’s Canadian Front program rolls on today with a trifecta of premieres from our northern neighbors with all the universal health care. Carl Bessai kicks things off with the U.S. premiere of his Unnatural and Accidental, followed by Amnon Buchbinder’s Whole New Thing (right) and Allan King’s nursing home documentary memory for Max, Claire, Ida and company. And Sunday, you can really make things multinational as French Canadians Denis Côté and Denise Filiatrault crash the party with their respective premieres Drifiting States and My Life in Cinemascope/Bitter Memories. You may have to read a few subtitles, but it beats stepping in some hungover junior investment banker’s vomit.
–Anthology Film Archives this weekend offers up the complete work of China’s young master Jia Zhangke. A lot of critics will jump behind Platform as kind of the be-all, end-all of contemporary (and even classic) Chinese cinema, but I think I will have to go with The World for its shattering view of youth working at a Beijing theme park, swallowed by distorted visions of world-famous tourist attractions. Slow, cool and revelatory, with a mind-blowing opening shot foreshadowing the desperation to come, it is cinema of the highest order.
–So let’s say you are like me and got shut out of last summer’s wildly popular engagement of The Conformist at Film Forum. You are in luck: The Leonard Nimoy Thalia will screen Bertolucci’s masterpiece in all it colorful glory Sunday afternoon. Plan now, leave early and do not screw this one up.
(Photo: Chris Reardon)
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