February is a time for lovers. Romanceas well as the hope of finding it is in abundance and what better place to search for it than at your local repertoire cinema. Sure, a dark theater full of strangers may seem like an odd space to find a potential freer, but who knows what can happen at the concession site or below the cursor? One thing is certain: there is nothing like the allure of the big screen.
This month’s offers over New York and Los Angeles Has a whole amount of ticket prices designed to fill the hearts of the audience, not only in the sense to discover love, but also reach the soul. From January 31 and run through March 5, Film At the Lincoln Center will host a career retrospective title “Frederick Wiseman: an American institution” It is safe to enclose newcomers to the documentary’s hypnotic work, as well as long fans. Brand new 4K restorations Of 33 of his films, including “High School” and “Central Park”, will appear.
Indiewire, which celebrates the work in a revival house over the pond and highlights its current dispute with landlords, has also chosen alternatives from Prince Charles Cinema in London which will surely heat many during this cold, gloomy winter. Continue reading below for all our choices and more information about when you can catch them.
New York
Film at the Lincoln Center
Where to start with the cinemography of Frederick Wiseman … Many people look at his early work, such as “Titicut Follies” (1967) – a moving look at the Bridgewater State prison for the criminally crazy – or “high school” (1968) – a Seminal Snapshot of American Youth at Philadelfia’s northeastern high school – such as the perfect points for entering Wisemans Oeuvre, but is set against his major work, they are uncharacteristically minimalist in comparison. In fact, the best way to develop is an estimate for what Wiseman offers to experience its more massive portraits, such as “Welfare” (1975), which shows both officials and applicants involved in the named system, or “Central Park” (1989), a loving Ode to New York City’s most welcoming feature, those who enjoy its escape and the people responsible for maintaining its beauty and charm.
Wiseman’s latest work is also perhaps some of his most lively and lively, with his last movie, “Menu-Plaisir’s troisgrois” (2023) serves as a reminder that, despite his age, the nonagar filmmaker can still create fresh and attractive studies. It follows the second and third generation of a famous French culinary family as they maintain their heritage through obsessive yet sensitive attention to detail, just like Wiseman himself. Compared to other documentary formats such as Direct Cinema or Cinéma Vérité, Wiseman sees his own work as “reality fiction” by both his camera work and editing aiming to take advantage of the dramatic tension in his subjects. Whatever you call it, Wiseman’s films are a gift to our society and have some of the most honest depictions of humanity that will screen.
Anthology Film Archives
Another retrospective definitely worth checking out is “Wild at heart: Willem Dafoe” At Anthology Film Archives from February 7-26. From Kathryn Bigelow & Monty Montgomery’s cyclist drama “The Loveless” to Abel Ferrara’s Roman trip of self -discovered “Tommaso” Garde Theater Troup the Wooster Group. Unfortunately, its display of David Lynch’s “Wild at heart”, which includes Dafoe as a sexually violent career crime, but tickets to 35 mm shows of Paul Schraders Slick Crime Drama “Easy sleeping cabin” are still available for Friday, February 14 which will be followed by a question and answer with Dafoe himself. Dafoe will be interviewed after a number of other views in the series as well.
If Dafoe is not your thing … strange … but other options for the month include Stanley Kubrick’s nuclear power satire “Dr. Strangelove, “ With Peter Sellers, Peter Sellers and Peter Sellers, February 4 at 18:45, as well as Jules Dassin’s genre-defining crime procedure “The naked city” The same night at 21:15.
Los Angeles
Vista -Theater
This month on PerspectiveWhile the modern headliners will be 35 mm views of Drew Hancock’s “Companion” and Oz Perkins “The Monkey”, both skewed against horror, the theater also has a wonderful selection of classics for those looking for something a little more tame … Well. .. not … not exactly tame. February 7 and 8, as part of Vista’s Midnights series, Flicks Russ Meyer’s Softcore Sex Ploitation “Vixen!” will appear at 35 mm. For their matinees, Vista will show Ernst Lubitsch’s beloved romantic comedy “Ninotchka”, co -written by Billy Wilder and with Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas, February 8 and 9 at. 10.00. Even the 14th and 15th at midnight, just in time for Valentine’s Day, Hal Ashby’s Oddball Rom-Com “Harold & Maude.”
Academy Museum
For those looking for a small adventure, move on to the Academy Museum’s David Geffen Theater on February 5 for a 35 mm view of the director’s average by Wolfgang Petersen’s wwii sub thriller “The boat.” An adaptation of the German novel 1973, the film follows a submarine crew during the Battle of the Atlantic and continued with the Six Academy Awards, including best director for Petersen.
Sorry for the east coasters that cannot catch “Wild at heart” In Anthology Film Archives, but for all these Angelinos who still mourn the loss of Lynch, the academy will screen the dark romantic thriller for 35 mm on Valentine’s Day at. 19:30 pt. A few days before, Wednesday, February 12, as a selection of Visual Effects branch and a special treatment for all these Cuarón fans out there, “Seriously” will appear in 3D, as it was done to be seen.
Prince Charles Cinema – London, UK
Cannot catch “Wild at heart” In New York or LA? Has no fear, because the love affair between Elvis -Immalator Sailor Ripley and Vivacious Vixen Lula Fortune will also be displayed at Prince Charles Cinema in London on Saturday, February 8 and Monday 10 February. PCC is the last independent cinema in London’s West End, in operation since 1962 when it was first opened as a theater before converting into a film house of poor reput. Finally, in 1991, the work began to turn it into the thriving local company it is today, but unfortunately all this is at risk now because of a conflict with the building’s landlord. To support PCC in its ongoing struggle, sign the petition On his website or even better, sign the presentation and check out one of its outstanding choice of February.
In addition to “Wild at Heart”, PCC will also be Screena Giuseppe Tornatore’s Oscar Award-winning love letter to movies and grow up, “Cinema Paradiso.” With a heart movement from Ennio Morricone and collaborated by his son Andrea, the upcoming age drama helped to revive the Italian film industry and the kiss scene mont to the end remains one of the cinema’s most indelible sequences. “Cinema Paradiso” will be displayed on PCC on February 8 at. 20:30 GMT.
