7/7: This Week in Film 04.03 – 04.09

Date:

Thursday April 3rd:.

NYC: Big visitor in town. Museum of the Moving Image suggests AN EVENING WITH WONG KAR-WAI moderated by curator David
Schwartz. WKW talks about his NYC-set My Blueberry Nights. 7:00 p.m.

Friday April 4th:.

Carter Smith’s directorial debut comes in the form of The Ruins. Dreamworks releases this horror pic wide.

Saturday April 5th:.

Pick your import night: Israel (Jellyfish) China (Tuya’s Marriage) or France (Water Lilies).

Sunday April 6th:.

Screwball Sunday. Perhaps give George Clooney’s Leatherheads a try.

Monday April 7th:.

Brooklyn, NY: What is a favorite film of Martin Scorsese, Jerry Garcia, and Luis Buñuel? 1965’s three hour Polish film from Wojciech Has’ The Saragossa Manuscript (Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie) is at the BAM. Click here for screening times.

Tuesday April 8th:.

DVD: I. Drink.Your…. Paul Thomas Anderson’s masterpiece There Will Be Blood (Two-Disc Special Collector’s Edition) gets released. And speaking of drinking…those who love world cinema are the ones most likely to travel, and
there is no better fun to discover the world then by drinking it up
with locales. I never heard of this series but the second season of Three Sheets, MOJO HD’s travel and drinking series get released as well. Bottoms up!

DVD There Will Be Blood

Wednesday April 9th:.

NYC: Fresh headlines stating that FIA President Max Mosley looks for alternative means to sexual satisfaction, a week prior to the release of a documentary film on Israeli Nazi-themed pornography. To get a jolt see Stalags and speak to it’s filmmaker, Ari Libsker who is at the Film Forum at the 8:15 show to answer your burning questions. Click here for more showtimes and some visual samples.

 

Eric Lavallée
Eric Lavalléehttps://www.ericlavallee.com
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society) and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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