7/7: This Week in Film 03.20 – 03.26

Thursday March 20th:.

NYC: Get your Yakuza film fix via Asia Society’s Yakuza film series which runs until mid April. Tonite catch Yasuzo Masumura’s Hoodlum Soldier. Check here for details & directions.  

Friday March 21st:.

NYC: IFC Center starts their run of Christophe Honore’s Love Songs (Les
Chansons d’amour). Ismael (Louis Garrel) has slipped into a comfortable menage a trois with his longtime girlfriend Julie (Ludivine Sagnier) and his co-worker Alice (Clotilde Hesme). After a sudden tragedy, these young people must deal not only with the reality of loss but also with the fear that love might never return. 

Saturday March 22md:.

…and speaking of three-ways….play catch up with one of these: Van Sant’s Paranoid Park, Gordon Green’s Snow Angels or Ira Sachs’ Married Life.

Sunday March 23rd:.

NYC: Matchsticks and geometry. Film Forum has a brand new, clean print of Alain Resnais’ Last
Year at Marienbad with only a couple of final days to spare. See schedule.

Monday March 24th:.

Save your pennies: At the stroke of midnight, get ready for some James Cagney and co. with The Warner Brothers Gangsters Collection. The includes the true gangster classics: the wealth begins with Little Caesar and The Public Enemy, 1931; The Petrified Forest (1936), Angels With Dirty Faces (1938), The Roaring Twenties (1939) and the yummy, White Heat, (1949).

Tuesday March 25th:.

Cable TV: HBO presents doc filmmaker Tricia Regan’s AUTISM: THE MUSICAL. (8:00 EST). The documentary will be available online in its entirety beginning the morning after its linear premiere (March 26th) ending March 31st. 

Wednesday March 26th:.

NYC: My favorite NYC film festival begins today. New Directors/New Films takes place between today and April 6th at the Film Society and the MoMA. Check out the schedule here. Best of luck on getting tickets!