Associate Editor (Restorations and Revivals)
Simon Taaffe has come across the following screenings and other information.
Click on the links for times etc where indicated.
The Metrograph
Time to take note of New York’s latest seriously good
repertory, revival and restoration house,The
Metrograph at number 7 Ludlow
Street. Click on the link for its “Mission” which includes “From exclusive premieres
to rare archival print screenings, book signings, special dinners, and events,
Metrograph offers experiences for a wide spectrum of audiences, attracting
diverse communities all drawn to the excitement of cinema and the magic of
having a place to celebrate it.”
OK.
Sounds like the Cremorne Orpheum...no? Well if you click on this link you get a different
perspective with a seriously good program. Among the many on offer is a screening on 35mm of Robert Kramer & John Douglas 1975 countercultural classic Milestones.
Verhoeven
Few contemporary
directors have inspired more debate than Paul Verhoeven, whose smartly
entertaining films push the boundaries of sex, violence, and accepted good
taste to daringly subversive ends. After a string of groundbreaking works in
the Netherlands, Verhoeven eventually found his way to Hollywood, where he lent
his complex, morally ambiguous worldview and facility for action spectacle to
some of the most fascinating—and often controversial—studio films of the
eighties and nineties.
An ironist who frequently
works in so-called “disreputable” genres—science fiction, erotic thriller,
melodrama—he combines a formal mastery with a satirist’s sensibility,
delivering visceral thrills alongside provocative critiques of capitalism,
militarism, and masculinity.
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