11/18: HORSE FEATHERS

I BELIEVE THIS AWFUL PICTURE SAYS IT ALL.

10/5: FKUS (FRENCH CONNECTION UNITED STATES)

10/29: DIABOLIQUE (TAKE 2)

http://filmseriesusa.blogspot.com/2008/10/108-diabolique.html

FOR REAL THIS TIME

10/22: E.T.: THE EX. TERR.

In the 1980s, the genre of Science Fiction was in its prime once again, and George G. Lucas was at the forefront, spearheading the beachhead of this emerging vanguard. His masterwork came to a culmination in a masterpiece of a pièce de résistance, known to world as the ET: The Magnum Opus.

Critically ignored and publicly forgotten, we here at the 5th Annual New York International American Film Series, USA have attained an age-old print of the film('s 20th Anniversary Edition) and have pain-stakingly strained with persnickety meticulousity to restore all 172,800 frames of this Modern Wonder (It's #5, after Rod Stewart's seminal Greatest Hits).

And tomorrow, we plan on showing every single one of those frames on our roof, in order, with live accompaniment by John Williams and the Crown Heights Philharmonic.

Illegal aliens get in free!

10/15: MR. BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE

BYOBARBIES

10/8: DIABOLIQUE

THIS MOVIE WILL MAKE YOU SHIT YOUR PANTS.

9/16 TRADING PLACES

Rich, septugenarian brothers Randolph Duke and Mortimer Duke both fall for the same homeless schlepp. Only problem is, they're in it for the money. a money. one money. a dollar.

A droll send up of Casablanca, Trading Places declares itself as philosophalic treatise on ontology from its onset. Banned by the Catholics for being anti-poverty, and banned by Poverty for glamorizing keeping a piece of chicken cordone bleu in one's wallet, the movie was originally concieved as a vehicle for Abraham Lincoln and Fredrick Douglas reunion picture (think "Jaws II"). Of course the project fell by the wayside when Lincoln decided to go back into theater.

Featuring Eddie Murphy in his first ever role as a black man. Also featuring Dan Ackroyd who after years of struggling with being typecast as a chair in most films since 1953 (See Sabrina) makes his breakthrough role as an on-screen character. Also come watch the the first film since the Hayes Code era to be sponsored by the word "motherfucker." Watch and listen for the product placements.

A funny sidenote: due to his strong religious convictions, actor Eddie Murphy (a mennonite) refused to continue using the word "motherfucker," featured heavily in the script. So halfway through production, he insisted scratching it out and having it replaced with either the word "gentleman" or "noodles."

The Balkans Situations and Sabrina

Two Pictures

tonight on the roof at Adelaide.

The Balkans Situations @ 7:30


"over time while some countries have had Shakespeare, Jazz, Mexican Food, and the cuckoo clock, all we've had are the balkans situations," A film by our resident documentarist Emmanuelle Cicconi follows the stories of people left to square off with post-war Bosnia and come to terms with its on-going problems. Featuring very serious corrupt officials, pacifists, and a bizzar scene where a man dressed up like tweazers hungrily chases a chicken (not a reference to Rocky II). in italian with English Subtitles.


AND

Sabrina @ 9:00



Billy Wilder's hilarious rehearsal of the Romeo and Juliet story (she dies, he dies, she dies again)Tailormade for the chainsmoking generation of 1950's New York by the chainsmoking hollywood industry of 1950's California. Featuring the breathtakingly beautiful Boggie and laconically charismatic Hepburn. William Holden is competent.

1,000.00 CLOWNS

A man who lives above a closed Chinese restaurant with his nephew is "eccentric" and he offends a television chipmunk star (Chippy the Potato Chip Chipmunk or something like that) by making a joke about Abraham Lincoln (or something like that) and he comes out of his building and you notice that he lives in a completely blighted neighborhood but that's not important at all but at one point he does go out and makes it with (as in: lay) a social worker in the New York Public Library (unknown branch) and they go fishing at some point too.

This summary has been provided by the Ramblings of one David Greenglass, noted author. Please visit http://davidgreenglass.jdate.com for more information on him, and on this film, and others, and other films.

930, Weds, 1130 Bergen. Come drunk.

-<3

8/20: STOLEN KISSES

Hey there's this movie by Frenchois Truffaut (EVER HEARD OF HIM?) called Baisers Voles, which in French (EVER HEARD OF IT?) means Stolen Kisses, which is what we're showing this week in the 50th Anniversary Newark Intercontinental Olympic Cinema Spectacular, A.M.E.R.I.C.A. (EVER HEARD OF ANYTHING MORE AWESOME????????)

As always, we will be getting plastered while a movie happens to be playing on the roof of 1130 Bergen St, at 930 pm. See you there. Bring chairs.



PS. THE MOVIE IS NOT ABOUT RAPE.
PPS. EVEN IF IT WERE, IT IS IN FRENCH, SO IT WOULD JUST BE CALLED 'LOVE'

8/13: Sulliver's Traverns

Not to be confused with Gulliver's Travels, Sullivan's Tadpoles, Mulligan's Tassles, Hollister's Assholes, or O Brother Where Art Thou*. This movie is much funnier than all of those. In fact, it's about making a movie that's much funnier than all other movies ever. You should come see it, it's way wittier than anything else you'd be doing Wednesday night.

Also, we're premiering our new cinema this week, the Alec Norxchorx Family Cinema and Boozebar, with a brand new screen (The Fuckin' Chupacabra) that is in fact a large wall painted white. The old screen is being retired due to its age, bad posture, lack of charisma, and the fact that it got struck by lightning almost 117 times in the five years that we've been running this show. Don't worry about getting lost finding the place though, we took a cue from the Mets and Yankees, and built the new one right next to the old. Just walk out the roof door as usual and you'll see it right before your eyes – none of those pesky right turns or anything.

Sea youth air!


*you'll have to see the movie to get this joke.

African Queen is a Royal Treat!

(This week's pun-title was generously donated by my dad)

Check out the poster for this movie!


Damn, what hotties Mr. Bogie and Ms. Hep are!


Look how perfectly dazzling she is! Skin smooth, face sexy, hair that luscious shade of Technicolor Red, all despite the fact that she is emerging out of African swampwater while being attacked by hippopotami.


And Humpy here, still looking so young and dashing, his chiseled features and rippling muscles holding up despite him being almost 52 years old (and having smoked cigars and drank whiskey for 45 of those years).

But the poster really doesn't do them justice, you really should see stills from the film:



Man they are sofa king hot! I can't wait to see this movie, I don't even know what it's about! See you there!

Everything You Wanted To Know About Flirting With Disaster!

From Wikipedia:

Flirting with Disaster is a 1996 AMERICAN comedy film written and directed by David O. Russell about a young father's search for his biological parents. The film stars Ben Stiller, Patricia Arquette, Téa Leoni, Mary Tyler Moore, George Segal, Alan Alda and Lily Tomlin. It is commonly accepted as being funnier and more neurotic than most episodes of Seinfeld, many episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm, and a couple of jokes by Woody Allen. The film is being roof-screened by the prestigious 5th Annual New York International American Film Series, USA on Wednesday, July 30, for free, for no reason.

For the album by rock band Molly Hatchet, see Flirtin' with Disaster.

6/23: MASCULINE FEMININE (French Title: Màsçûlín Fémínîn)

Masculine Feminine is a movie in French and in Black (and White) and it was made by Jean-Luc Godard in 1966 when the world was totally peaceful and nobody talked about things like Gas and War and the Gas Wars and the Gas Wars II: Who's Got the Last Gas Now? Sooo the movie is chock-full of such peace-full things as:

Music!


Art!


A Pretty Lady!


Way More Badass Art!


Badass Buildings!



Post-Coital Staring Contests!!



So there are six reasons to come see this movie. If you can come up with six or more reasons not to come, then we will give you a $50 gift certificate to the new IKEA (only redeemable in the Hot-Dog-Shaped Couch section), but in order to get it, you have to come pick it up yourself at the screening Wednesday night. So, no matter what, we'll see you there, sucker!