Welcome to our weekly column, "Staff Picks," in which we ask the staffers at our favorite book, music, and movie stores around to town to share with us what they're reading, listening to, and watching this week. We figure they're good people to ask. Today we're checking in with cinephile Richard Hutchins, who's worked at Film Forum for 13 years, to find out what he's been watching lately.
Richard says: "One film coming up I can't wait to see on our screens is The Man Who Fell To Earth by Nicolas Roeg. [Presented as part of the Museum of Arts & Design's David Bowie Retrospective.] It isn't a 'music-film' per se, but it stars Bowie, whose music I love, and his acting is great in this film. I love the film because of the main character that he plays. He's is someone who doesn't fit in but becomes a very public personality due to his efforts toward his secret mission."
"Dial M For Murder opened Friday, June 17th. It's being screened using Polaroid filters and lenses and double-system 3-D projection (two big reels—one for the left eye, one for the right—running simultaneously for maximum stereo effect and not the vastly inferior "red/green glasses" 3-D often erroneously attributed to 3-D movies of the early 50s). Film Forum is the only NYC cinema equipped to screen vintage double-system 3-D." [Ed. note: For those who can't make it to the big screen, pick up a copy of M at local shops Videology or Kim's Video, or online at Netflix.]
Another film I can't wait to see is Rapt, written and directed By Lucas Belvaux, coming Wednesday, July 6th for two weeks. I haven't seen it before, but I love a good crime thriller, and this one is based on a true story. It's described as "A Chabrolian crime thriller based on the actual 1978 kidnapping of a French-Belgian executive whose harrowing 9-week experience at the hands of a criminal band is, ultimately, less life-threatening to him than the details of his scandalous life which the tabloids uncover in the course of these events. "Oh yeah!! I can't wait."
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