By David Poland poland@moviecitynews.com
Screening Gotham: June 16-18, 2006
A few of this weekend’s worthwhile cinematic goings-on around New York:
–The Museum of the Moving Image features a pair of nifty-sounding screenings tonight and tomorrow. First up is Strangers With Candy, which does not open in theaters for another two weeks but is hitting the New York preview rounds pretty hard in the meantime. The film’s creative duo Amy Sedaris and Paul Dinello will stop by afterward to answer your probing questions. Heads-up, however: Tonight’s event will be hosted at the ImaginAsian Theater on the Upper East Side (not at the Museum’s Queens headquarters), and its hosts tell The Reeler it is sold out. Which naturally means a little more creative crashing scheme is in order. I have faith in you.
Meanwhile, the museum returns home tomorrow to screen Full Metal Jacket with Matthew Modine in attendance. Feel free to ask him how he applied his lessons from Kubrick to his performance in the recent Tribeca shit-stack Kettle of Fish. Or just gasp and sob and blubber into the mic. Same difference.
–Speaking of Tribeca, the festival unofficially marches on with a series of films about office life. Just what you wanted over the weekend, I know, but at least they are free. Tribeca Cinemas unspools the Fonda/Tomlin/Parton parable 9 to 5 tonight and the cult classic Office Space Saturday; both films start at 7 p.m. and seating is first-come, first-served.
–The very wonkiest of New York’s cinema wonks should be taking over Film Forum right about now as the joint unveils its restored print of G.W. Pabst’s silent “erotic masterpiece” Pandora’s Box. Featuring Louise Brooks as Lulu, the bobbed, class-straddling siren of Weimar Germany, the film confirmed the star as one of the great screen icons of her era–hell, of any era, but primarily after her career was well over, the French had revived her work and she wrote her 1982 memoir Lulu in Hollywood. This weekend’s 7:45 shows feature live piano accompaniment, while Film Forum repertory programmer Bruce Goldstein may beatbox over the late screenings if you ask nicely.
I already saw them at the apple store Q@A and they were hysterical. Clips on my site…