Upcoming Events, Dec 2007

Not a whole lot coming up in December except movies, really. MoMA is again showing some good movies. I'm hoping to see two directed by Wong Kar-wai (Fallen Angels and Happy Together), two by Josef von Sternberg with Marlene Dietrich (Morocco and The Scarlet Empress), and three written by Ben Hecht (Hawks' Barbary Coast, George Stevens' Gunga Din, and William Wyler's Wuthering Heights).

The IFC Center is reviving Il Posto, a hilarious Italian office/coming-of-age comedy from 1961, as well as It's a Wonderful Life, which I like more every time I see it.

Walter Reade Theater is hosting a screening of Kent Jones' The Man in the Shadows:

This is a film by a film critic -- indeed, one of the most penetrating of contemporary film critics -- and as such goes far beyond fan-based summary to synthesize, describe and interpret [director Val] Lewton's work in the context of the director's own life.

And one can't forget Christmastime in Ohio.