The Week Ahead



I've been a bad blogger, too lazy to write anything about the films I've seen in the last two months. I've had no new posts since the Cannes Film Festival in May, so I thought I would at least take a sneak peek at the films I'm planning to see in the week ahead. Topping the list is Raoul Ruiz's exquisite 4 1/2-hour masterpiece, The Mysteries of Lisbon. Seeing it for the second time, I expect to be caught up in its hypnotic camera movements, lush settings and costumes, and dazzling narrative games all over again.

MoMA is offering a one-week premiere of Pietro Marcello's highly praised docu-fiction The Mouth of the Wolf, about the city of Genoa and an unconventional true love story between a tough ex-con and a transgender ex-junkie. It's been described as Jean Genet meets Pedro Costa. What's not to like?

And then there's a double feature Tuesday in Film Forum's Essential Pre-Code series, Alfred E. Green's Union Depot and George Cukor's Girls About Town (with Kay Francis and Joel McCrea!). And if I can find time for it, I hope to see Andy Warhol's dual-screen film Inner and Outer Space starring Edie Sedgwick. I love New York.