1962: New York Film Critics Circle

PAST EVENTS

	Repertory, Cinema Q&As Lola Intro by NYFCC chair Armond White before 6:50 screening Fri, Oct 23 at 2, 4:30, 6:50, 9:30pm BAM Rose Cinemas
	Repertory, Cinema Q&As The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Intro by NYFCC member TBD before 6pm screening Sat, Oct 24 at 6, 9pm BAM Rose Cinemas
	Repertory, Cinema Q&As Lawrence of Arabia Panel discussion with NYFCC chair Armond White and members John Anderson, Marshall Fine, Lou Lumenick, and Stephanie Zacharek following 1:30 screening Sun, Oct 25 at 1:30, 7:30pm BAM Rose Cinemas
	Repertory, Cinema Q&As Ride the High Country Intro by NYFCC member David Denby before 6:50 screening Wed, Oct 28 at 4:30, 6:50, 9:30pm BAM Rose Cinemas
	Repertory, Cinema Q&As Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Intro by NYFCC member Melissa Anderson before 6:30 screening Thu, Oct 29 at 6:30, 9:30pm BAM Rose Cinemas

SERIES DESCRIPTION

BAMcinématek salutes the 75th Anniversary of the New York Film Critics Circle, the country’s oldest and most prestigious film critics organization, by bringing back 1962—the only year the NYFCC did not present awards (due to a newspaper strike). Join us as the Circle holds forth on 1962’s extraordinary slate of NY film premieres—both pop and art-film classics. “1962 was equal to Hollywood’s fabled 1939. We welcome this great opportunity to learn and revise film history.”—series introduction by New York Film Critics Circle Chairman Armond White

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The New York Times on 1962: New York Film Critics Circle
"...a film series at the Brooklyn Academy of Music is devoted entirely to movies released in America in 1962. The program, organized in conjunction with the New York Film Critics Circle, consists of a dozen films (including Liberty Valance, Ride the High Country and Lawrence of Arabia) that provide partial evidence of a watershed in cinematic history." More

New York Press on 1962: New York Film Critics Circle
"Hollywood publicity has popularly established 1939 as the great signpost of the studio system’s output (the year of Gone with the Wind, Wizard of Oz, Stagecoach and at least a dozen other memorable movies). But films of the ’39 classical era are rivaled by a year in the modernist era: 1962. It marked the highpoint of international, art-film exhibition as well as the beginning of the end of the old Hollywood system, all culminating in extraordinary but—up until now—overlooked riches." More

BAMbill Article on 1962: New York Film Critics Circle
"One of the pleasures of this series is seeing many of these classic films the way they were meant to be shown, in their original widescreen formats, a technological innovation popularized at the time meant to draw people away from television and back into movie theaters." More