Since any New York City cinephile has a nearly suffocating wealth of theatrical options, we figured it’d be best to compile some of the more worthwhile repertory showings into one handy list. Displayed below are a few of the city’s most reliable theaters and links to screenings of their weekend offerings — films you’re not likely to see in a theater again anytime soon, and many of which are, also, on 35mm. If you have a chance to attend any of these, we’re of the mind that it’s time extremely well-spent.
Film at Lincoln Center
The career-spanning Agnès Varda retrospective has its final weekend.
Museum of Modern Art
Films by Truffaut, Jane Campion, Nobuhiko Ôbayashi and more play in “Show Me Love: International Teen Cinema.”
Metrograph
“Holidays at Metrograph” winds down with Phantom Thread and Eyes Wide Shut.
Downtown ’81 and A Bigger Splash play in “Metrograph Standards.
Film at Lincoln Center
The career-spanning Agnès Varda retrospective has its final weekend.
Museum of Modern Art
Films by Truffaut, Jane Campion, Nobuhiko Ôbayashi and more play in “Show Me Love: International Teen Cinema.”
Metrograph
“Holidays at Metrograph” winds down with Phantom Thread and Eyes Wide Shut.
Downtown ’81 and A Bigger Splash play in “Metrograph Standards.
- 1/3/2020
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
This week's look at Buster Keaton on Blu-ray will focus on Kino's recent double feature of the Great Stoneface's two films leading up to his landmark The General. First up is 1925's Go West, a rather lackluster outing by Keaton standards, but still a solid comedy, followed by a significantly better outing, his 1926 boxing film, Battling Butler. The two of these films are both very entertaining, but when looking at them in terms of the oeuvre from which they emerge, they are minor works. Kino's double feature of Go West and Battling Butler also feature the least impressive of their restorations I've seen yet, apart from Three Ages. While the films themselves are not my favorite Keatons, Kino makes up some of the difference...
- 11/12/2011
- Screen Anarchy
Douris, MK2 reviving Keaton films
The Douris Corp., which holds rights to the classic motion pictures starring and directed by Buster Keaton, has struck an agreement with Paris-based MK2, the worldwide distributor of the films of Charlie Chaplin, for MK2 to digitally restore Douris' Keaton films for digital theatrical release in select cities. The titles to be restored include Our Hospitality, The Navigator, Sherlock, Jr., Go West, Seven Chances and Battling Butler.
- 4/16/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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