About ten or twelve years ago the Film Forum had a series called “Out of the 70s.” This was before the book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls came out, certainly before docs like A Decade Under The Influence. In my memory, this series went on all summer. At the time I was living just a few blocks from FF, had a lot of free time and also had a friend (Rob H., you still around?) who worked as an usher and allowed me free roam of the place. (Don’t worry FF, I’m now a card-carrying member and have been for years, so karma and dues have been paid.)

Anyway, it was the greatest film series ever.

MoMI (formerly AMMI) has put together the poor man’s version of this series. They’re calling it Uneasy Riders and the schedule is on their website.

I think I will take Ann to see Klute because she likes mysteries and this movie is really one that works best on the big screen. (DP Gordon Willis was really knockin’ em out of the park during this stretch. The use of negative space and swaths of color in Klute and The Parallax View make me gurgle in ecstacy.) Also, I’ve never seen Drive, He Said, Jack Nicholson’s directorial debut and (supposedly) a great film.

One of my favorite films of all time, Fat City will screen on a day that I am out of town. I first saw it at the Film Forum series from years ago . . .I implore you to check it out. They end, appropriately enough, with The Last Movie. If it is the same print that Anthology Film Archives unveiled last summer, we are in for a (strange) treat.