Heavy
screening log this week, folks. Some very interesting and great movies out
there for New Yorkers to check out. Film Forum has Celine & Julie Go Boating (seeing this afternoon), IFC Center has The Connection (seeing Wednesday),
and Film Society continues its retrospective of Turkish cinema. In news that is
wholly awesome, Roger Ebert liked and linked my latest video essay to his
Facebook and Twitter followers. Validation! I will also say on my continuing
rants about digital projection, that I was not a big fan of the new 4K scan of Bonjour Tristesse at Film Forum. This is
another Sony DCP, and like Dr. Strangelove, they tried to recreate film grain. It’s less distracting than
it is in Kubrick’s film, but it’s another missed opportunity.
-Shakes the Clown,
1992. Directed by Bobcat Goldthwait. 35mm projection at 92nd Y
Tribeca.
-Bonjour Tristesse,
1958. Directed by Otto Preminger. Digital 2K projection at Film Forum.
-Four Nights a Dreamer,
1971. Directed by Robert Bresson. 35mm projection at Brooklyn Academy of Music.
-Elegy, 1971.
Directed by Yılmaz Güney. 35mm projection at Film Society of Lincoln Center.
-Yol, 1982.
Directed by Serif Gören and Yılmaz Güney. 35mm projection at Film Society of
Lincoln Center.
-Gojira, 1954.
Directed by Ishirô Honda. 35mm projection at Japan Society.
