Comments on: NYC2: MOMA and the Film Forum http://bayflicks.net/2007/07/10/nyc2-moma-and-the-film-forum/ Festivals, revival houses, and everything cinema in the San Francisco Bay Area Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:57:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Brian http://bayflicks.net/2007/07/10/nyc2-moma-and-the-film-forum/#comment-9 Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:37:07 +0000 http://bayflicks.net/nyc2-moma-and-the-film-forum#comment-9 I visited New York four years ago while MOMA was in Queens while its building was being worked on, and the screenings were moved to the Gramercy Theatre near NYU. A decent theatre with great sightlines, but it’s air conditioning went out in the middle of a day-long marathon of Jean Renoir films (most of the same films playing at SFMOMA this summer, actually), and the heat became increasingly intolerable, even as the films became increasingly wonderful.

I also checked out a Lubtisch double-bill at the Film Forum (not very impressive theatre, I agree). It really made me appreciate the Bay Area’s grand movie houses playing terrific films year-round, namely the Castro, Rafael and Stanford. I did check out one movie palace on that NYC trip, the Ziegfeld, but I had to sit through “the Hulk”- in an empty theatre.

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