Le Cercle Rouge, tomorrow in Delon and Melville (Delville? Melon?) at Film Forum, great as a heist film, as a trove of cool gestures for people and cars, and as an epistemological map of the criminal mind: newyorker.com/culture/the-fr…

Jean-Pierre Melville's last film, Un Flic ('A Cop') finds him both aesthetically restrained to the breaking point and politically uninhibited and embittered; word from a while ago (scroll down); playing today at Film Forum in the Alain Delon series:
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1941

To Be or Not to Be, one of the great anti-Nazi movies—and also, being a Lubitsch comedy, one of the great pro-sex movies, in which the Resistance has no resistance and turns Shakespeare's soliloquy, um, sexistential (so sue me), on TCM at 12:15a.m. (ET): 
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High school music taste

Mantle did it on one leg.

Greatly looking forward to this; Spike Lee is one of the best filmmakers in the world—as original and inventive as Kurosawa—and why not Ice Spice? Performing is performing, and there's a long tradition of musicians excelling as movie actors; so enough with the snoot-cocking.

Greatly enjoyed 'Kim's Video,' the documentary by Ashley Sabin and David Redmon, though I was also frustrated by some vague anecdotes and unpursued paths; it's just a start, but a good one—a film that invites other films:
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'One of Godard's greatest films—he'd intended it to be an uninhibited panoply of his artistic powers.' — Richard Brody. Jean-Luc Godard's A MARRIED WOMAN screens today at 3pm & 7.30pm! (French poster is courtesy of Posteritati!) 🎟️: bit.ly/AMarriedWomanQ.

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, in April Cahiers du Cinéma: 'One of my great influences in the use of music is Jean-Luc Godard; he's the perfect example of a concept that we share with Eiko Ishibashi: not to use music to control the audience's emotions but to awaken its sensibility.'

Awful news; wouldn't medical treatment have been more appropriate? espn.com/mlb/story/_/id…

1. Pierrot le Fou
2. Breathless
3. Mississippi Mermaid
4. That Man from Rio
5. ?

Not the Onion

Justine Triet's first feature, Age of Panic (La Bataille de Solférino), today FIAF at 4 & 7:30; its daring documentary-rooted freedom runs throughout the action and sets it apart from (and above) her others; never released here.
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L'Eclisse

Short word on the wry melancholy and quiet fury of Patricia Rozema's I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, tonight at Roxy Cinema New York at 7p.m and she'll be on hand for a Q. & A. newyorker.com/goings-on-abou…