Sunday in NYC: a thoroughly-unsanctioned Litster movie-meetup

[boomer177]

A thoroughly-unsanctioned Litster movie-meetup:

Sunday, September 6, 2015, 2:00 p.m. (Showtime: 2:45 p.m.)

Film Forum, 209 W Houston St (between Varick St and Sixth Ave), Manhattan

The film: “The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution” (2015)*

Ticket price: $13. (The box office expects “strong attendance” at this showing, although not necessarily a sell-out. Tickets can be purchased in advance at www.filmforum.org.)

By subway: 1 to Houston St; A, C, D, E or F to W 4 St (four-block walk); C or E to Spring St (four-block walk)

*NY Times review, A.O. Scott, “‘The Black Panthers’ Captures a Militant Movement’s Soul and Swagger,” at http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/02/m...edit_fm_20150904&nl=movies&nlid=66636455&_r=0

Note: This is a “real life”-only event. Cyberspatial participation cannot be accommodated. Blame the Lit webmaster.

 

[Queersetti]

For $13 a ticket I expect Huey Newton to buy the popcorn.

 

[Super-Surprise]

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[IrezumiKiss]

A thoroughly-unsanctioned Litster movie-meetup:

Sunday, September 6, 2015, 2:00 p.m. (Showtime: 2:45 p.m.)

Film Forum, 209 W Houston St (between Varick St and Sixth Ave), Manhattan

The film: “The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution” (2015)*

Ticket price: $13. (The box office expects “strong attendance” at this showing, although not necessarily a sell-out. Tickets can be purchased in advance at www.filmforum.org.)

By subway: 1 to Houston St; A, C, D, E or F to W 4 St (four-block walk); C or E to Spring St (four-block walk)

*NY Times review, A.O. Scott, “‘The Black Panthers’ Captures a Militant Movement’s Soul and Swagger,” at http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/02/m...edit_fm_20150904&nl=movies&nlid=66636455&_r=0

Note: This is a “real life”-only event. Cyberspatial participation cannot be accommodated. Blame the Lit webmaster.

Can't make it, I work Sundays. Media never rests.

Although Film Forum is fair dinkum, I think the Sunshine is better. Seats are super-comfy in that joint. Plan the next one there!

For $13 a ticket I expect Huey Newton to buy the popcorn.

And Bobby Seale to get the cheese nachos.

 

[Noor]

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LOL!

 

[Shagly]

LOL!

Must be a Central Park squirrel.

 

[boomer177]

For $13 a ticket I expect Huey Newton to buy the popcorn.

My friend, the going rate in NYC is in the $15 to $18 range. By not showing first-run commercial flicks, Film Forum is always below the market rate.

You might check with the offspring of that former CA governor about the popcorn. All the principals are gone, by natural or other causes. Hardly to cast the Panthers as high-minded angels, but, in my town, the police assassinated the local leader in his bed.

 

[boomer177]

Several hours after MLK was assassinated, that local leader and half-a-dozen others, clad in de rigueur Panther attire, showed up at the local McCarthy for President headquarters, where perhaps a dozen of us were holding a much-subdued meeting.

Said he words to the effect that we must know the anger inside them but that we and others should also know they would not allow that anger to be turned inward, toward the community, and that, further, they would surely not be intimidated. And he was gone.

That night and the next, he and a few others circulated in Black neighborhoods with a similar message.

In my town, alone among New Jersey cities, there were no major disturbances.

With authority like that, he was, indeed, a threat the powers-that-were simply could not tolerate.

Off to the film.

 

[Laurel]

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This is FANTASTIC.

Off to the film.

Enjoy! Let us know how it goes.

 

[lovetoread]

Go into the city on a holiday weekend? Yea, no.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Go into the city on a holiday weekend? Yea, no.

There's gotta be doing way more than just seeing a movie at Film Forum. Catching an indie movie there and then coming back home is not really worth a tri-state trek.

Maybe a booty call later on, or dinner reservations at Nakazawa?

 

[boomer177]

Originally posted by Laurel
Enjoy! Let us know how it goes.

Not a seat to be had in the Litster section, although management put it to one wearing a cock-pic t-shirt to turn it inside-out or find the closest exit.

In the film, as in what is sometimes termed real-life here, COINTELPRO, the FBI’s notorious, illegal conspiracy, see http://www.publiceye.org/liberty/Feds/cointelpro.html, together with police assassinations and the exercise of other unrestrained police power, succeeded in bloodily decimating the organization. Folks said little as they departed.

Originally posted by lovetoread
Go into the city on a holiday weekend? Yea, no?

Yea, Joisey, it’s perhaps the best time to do so. We missed ya.

 

[evesdream]

Hm, I was having a good hair week and maybe might have gone had I seen this before 10PM day of. If you think you'll try to do this again, I'll watch this thread.

The last movie I saw there was Banished - which was outstanding.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Hm, I was having a good hair week and maybe might have gone had I seen this before 10PM day of. If you think you'll try to do this again, I'll watch this thread.

The last movie I saw there was Banished - which was outstanding.

I'm having movie night at my house tomorrow night at 8 pm. Can you make it?

 

[evesdream]

I'm having movie night at my house tomorrow night at 8 pm. Can you make it?

You're so freeking cute.

 

[pointless]

i went with the riffed version of the revenge of dr. x instead. it has bad acting, terribleness and random japanese boobs. i think i made the right choice.

 

[lovetoread]

Japanese bewbs are always a good choice.

 

[boomer177]

Hm, I was having a good hair week and maybe might have gone had I seen this before 10PM day of. If you think you'll try to do this again, I'll watch this thread.

The last movie I saw there was Banished - which was outstanding.

A four-week Vittoria De Sica series starts this week. Here's the schedule, http://filmforum.org/series/vittorio-de-sica-attore-regista-seduttore-series.

You decide.

(I promise not to wear my cock-pic t-shirt again!)

 

[pointless]

Japanese bewbs are always a good choice.

truer words have never been typed.

 

[islandman]

That's an interesting choice of film to anchor a meet-up.

 

[boomer177]

That's an interesting choice of film to anchor a meet-up.

Which would you suggest?

 

[islandman]

Which would you suggest?

I wouldn't suggest a movie as sitting in silence for three hours is not my idea of a meet-up. I'd rather do dinner and drinks. No point in going if there's little opportunity to get to know my fellow locals.

 

[boomer177]

I wouldn't suggest a movie as sitting in silence for three hours is not my idea of a meet-up. I'd rather do dinner and drinks. No point in going if there's little opportunity to get to know my fellow locals.

Didn't I mention that dinner and drinks follows the film? There are a score or more places within a five-minute walk. Laurel is picking up the tab, aren't you, Laurel?

 

[Laurel]

Didn't I mention that dinner and drinks follows the film? There are a score or more places within a five-minute walk. Laurel is picking up the tab, aren't you, Laurel?

Absolutely. You all go enjoy a nice dinner with plenty of embibables. When you're done, quietly and discreetly leave the restaurant. I'll take care of the bill.

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[lovetoread]

I wouldn't suggest a movie as sitting in silence for three hours is not my idea of a meet-up. I'd rather do dinner and drinks. No point in going if there's little opportunity to get to know my fellow locals.

We should do it again. I just need help navigating the city as I still get lost.