NOW PLAYING
Hamnet
SC Wed Dec 31 12:25 3:25 6:00 / Thu Jan 1 11:15am 6:00
Nuremberg (Ian Farthing, Michael Hart)
SC Wed Dec 31 12:00 6:30 / Thu Jan 1 12:00 6:30
The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg
Jan 4 (Sun) Park 7:15
Weapons
Jan 6 (Tue) Rio 9pm
David Lynch
Jan 6 (Tue) Cinematheque 6:00 Blue Velvet + Mulholland Drive 8:30
Frankenstein
Jan 8 (Thu) Hollywood 7:30
The Secret Agent
Jan 9 (Fri) Rio 6:30
Jan 11 (Sun) Rio 1pm
Brazil, 1977, ruled by a military dictatorship
The Rip
Joel: "Matt & Ben and a juicy crime-related plot, plus Kyle Chandler! All I need. Pass the popcorn."
Breaking the Waves
Jan 18 (Sun) VIFF 11am / Jan 20 (Tue) 8pm
*
Eephus
MUBI 7 days free
Apple TV Rent 5.99
Amazon Video Rent 5.99: For his first feature, Carson Lund developed a daring premise, telling the story of a single baseball game—in a New England adult-recreational league, some time in the nineteen-nineties, on a field that’s about to be erased by the construction of a school—from the time that the players approach the field to the time that they leave it. Lund keeps the action tethered to the site, ranging no farther than the dugouts, the woods beyond the outfield, and the nearest street. From this challenge, Lund provides a pointillistic group portrait of idiosyncratic characters, parses the sport’s action with a singularly analytical yet subjective eye, and expands the melancholy of farewells to symphonic dimensions.
Train Dreams
NETFLIX
: logger, building of American West, Malick-ish. Sing Sing writers
Ballad of a Small Player - Colin Farrell, UK gambler on the run in Macau
NY doc
The Stranger (PN undercover cop moody dark Aussie)
The Teachers' Lounge (Karen Cooper)
Poison
The Rat Catcher
The Swan
The Wonder
Sinners: Ryan Coogler’s rigorously imagined thriller-fantasy set during the era of Jim Crow... let’s-put-on-a-show entrepreneurship, in which a band of outsiders join together in scrappy pursuit of creative principles that defy the commercial norms of their era
Black Bag : director Steven Soderbergh and the screenwriter David Koepp, a delectably witty espionage thriller with a slippery yet sincere marital drama at its core
The Phoenician Scheme, Wes Anderson
APPLE
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
The Lost Bus
Wolfwalkers
Slow Horses
Mr Scorsese (Oct 17)
The Velvet Underground (Todd Haynes doc)
Bono: Stories of Surrender
Sharper (2023, Julianne Moore, John Lithgow)
Coda (2021, "only hearing child of a deaf family, who expect her to work full-time at the family's struggling fishing business. Ruby hopes to study music at Berklee
The History of Sound (Mel) MUBI 7 DAYS FREE
ONLINE RENT
0825 Honey Don't, Ethan Coen [online rent only]
a dark comedy about Honey O’Donahue, a small-town private investigator who delves into a series of strange deaths tied to a mysterious church
WATCHING FOR
1024 Springsteen Deliver Me From Nowhere: biopic, rec by LA Times
1107 Sentimental Value: Joachim Trier second-place Grand Prix at Cannes. Daughter refuses role in filmmaker father's movie.
FRIEND RECS
All We Imagine As Light PN | Criterion 7 days free, Apple $3.99 | S&S #1 for 2024
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (2023, Friedkin) - streaming only AL
Chelsea Walls Brett Alan Dewing
Meek's Cutoff AL
Black Bag (stylish Steven Soderbergh screwball spy thriller) - Prime DW
John Coltrane, A Love Supreme - Netflix
Karaoke RK
Barbie PN
Hard Truths (Mike Leigh) PN
My Old Ass ("packs a punch") Daniel Reville
La Chimera Matt Page
Corpo Celeste Matt Page
Fallen Leaves (Kaurimaski) Michael Hart quirky, sad yet funny, movie references & always a live band
HAVE
Julia (Rudi saw it summer 2025)
The 4:30 Movie [Hoopla, Apple]
The Naked City
Spencer
NETFLIX
SEE WITH CAROLE
Game Night (comedic take on The Game)
Flora and Son (writer/director of Once and Sing Street)
Liberty Heights (Barry Levinson, Baltimore, great early-Fifties pop soundtrack)
Vengeance Most Fowl [streaming]
MONTAGE
The Eternal Zero
Gun Crazy
The Irishman - freeze frame, death dates of characters
I'm Still Here (Brazil military dictatorship 1964 /1971 / 1996 / 2014)
Fargo
SERIES
Chernobyl
Adolescence [set in Liverpool] Katie & Carole, etc
The Lowdown, with Ethan Hawke "a noir for our era" | New Yorker, Sep 22, 2025 [on FX]
Station Eleven
True Detective Season One, as well as Season Four w/ Jodie Foster (Katie rec)
RECENT
Wes Anderson, The Phoenician Scheme (Jun 6)
March | Eephus (Sunday league ballpark to be demolished. Cannes contender. DM1016)
Exhibiting Forgiveness
NOW PLAYING
Doubters To Believers (Klopp) Netflix
*
American Fiction [Prime Apple Amazon]
Blitz (Steve McQueen, Saoirse Ronan) [Apple] DW didn't like it
Grand Theft Hamlet [MUBI]
My Old Ass (PRIME)
The Old Oak (2023, Hoopla)
Promised Land (Amazon Apple Hoopla)
Oh, Canada [Schrader. Draft dodger?]
The Shadowless Tower [Apple $6.99]
Sam Mendes, Empire Awards speech, 2013
I want to thank Stanley Kubrick for the war room in “Dr. Strangelove,” Billy Wilder for C. C. Baxter in “The Apartment,” Kurosawa for the death of the king at the end of “Throne of Blood,” Martin Scorsese for panning a camera down an empty corridor in “Taxi Driver,” Joel and Ethan Coen for the last scene between Marge and Norm in bed at the end of “Fargo,” Paul Thomas Anderson for the deafening of H. W. Plainview in “There Will Be Blood,” Bergman for the visit of Bibi Andersson to Liv Ullmann in the dead of night in “Persona,” Francis Coppola for the killing of Fredo Corleone in “The Godfather II,” David Fincher for the first scene in “The Social Network,” Bob Fosse for the audition sequence at the beginning of “All That Jazz,” Quentin Tarantino for Christopher Walken’s speech about the watch in “Pulp Fiction,” Woody Allen for the fireworks over “Manhattan,” Clint Eastwood for making it rain at the end of “Unforgiven,” Michael Powell for the moment Moira Shearer steps into the ballet of “The Red Shoes,” David Lynch for the car journey with Frank Booth in “Blue Velvet,” Mike Nichols for Benjamin in the swimming pool in “The Graduate,” François Truffaut for the moment the boy looks into the lens at the end of “400 Blows,” and Wim Wenders for the moment Harry Dean Stanton sees Nastassja Kinski after all those years at the end of “Paris, Texas.”
MUBI [7 days free via Apple TV+]
Kim's Video (NYC video store sold to foreign country, now returned to NYC)
Pacifiction (diplomat, French Polynesia
The Settlers (Chile)
FIND
The Last Film Show (India, Julie Sutherland rec)
Looking for Eric (Ken Loach) depressed postman's conversations with Eric Cantona
Porcelain War (Rosie rec, Ukrainian pottery)
A Midnight Clear (Ethan Hawke)
REVILL
Thin Red Line
In The Loop (Brit poli satire, Gulf War)
Leviathan (also PN)
American Honey
If Beale Street Could Talk
The Fountain
GONE
Blinded By The Light (2019) (Apple TV+ buy $12.99) *
Broken Circle Breakdown (DW: "mega sad". Belgian, bluegrass music)
Christ Stopped at Eboli (rec Anthony Forkush)
Cold Case Hammarskjold HOOPLA MUBI
The Gods of Times Square
Living
Maestro (Daniel Revill #8, 2023)
Marlowe
The Mass Is Ended *
Memory
Norah's Will (Mexico, rec Geoff Cowper)
One Life
Past Lives (Daniel Revill #1, 2023)
The Road Dance (rec Michael Hart, Scottish small town w/ music)
Society of the Snow
The Taste of Things
*
The Mass Is Ended (1985, Italy, Nanni Maretti)
"A young priest, Don Giulio, struggles to maintain his faith. Having been a radical college student in the 1960s, Don Giulio has now rejected his long hair and liberal ideals in favor of the church. He has himself transferred to his home parish, only to discover the church empty and the town indifferent. Meanwhile, Don Giulio’s friends from his radical days begin popping up with their lives in serious disarray. Don Giulio seeks solace with his beloved family, but his family too is in chaos. The director's follow-up, The Son's Room, was a stunner." VIFF
The Promised Land
an old-fashioned epic, a settler Western unfolding on the barren heaths of Denmark rather than the American frontier. Mads Mikkelsen is a longtime soldier seeking the favor of the Danish crown by cultivating a harsh landscape. Kahlen cobbles together a ragtag crew of waifs and cast-offs, and goes to bitter battle with a preening local lord.
The Settlers
In 1893, Segundo, a Chilean mestizo, an English army captain, and an American mercenary embark on an expedition on horseback to reclaim the lands that the State has granted to José Menéndez. What appears to be an administrative expedition turns into a violent hunt for Onas, the natives of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago.
The Shadowless Tower
This quiet but sweeping drama, a winsome tribute to the old quarters of Beijing, their narrow streets and hole-in-the-wall eateries. a rumpled, middle-aged food critic, is the soulful center of the film, while Huang Yao gamely plays the young photographer who coaxes him out of his stasis.
