AT THE METROGRAPH: "SURRENDER TO THE SCREEN" SERIES, BAUMBACH'S DREAM DOUBLE FEATURE
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Amidst the above series at the Metrograph this weekend, Saturday night brings an event titled "Noah Baumbach's Dream Double Feature," which consists of George Miller's Babe: Pig In The City, followed by Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut. Baumbach will be there to introduce each film. "When Jake [Perlin] asked me if there was a double feature I’d like to present at his new theater," Baumbach states in the event's description, "I said, ‘That’s easy, Eyes Wide Shut and Babe: Pig in the City.' When Jake asked me if I would write something about them, I thought, I can’t believe you’re going to make me defend this decision. But here’s a try. Both movies take place in strange alternate cities. Part storybook, part nightmare. I’ve never been to these places, but I know what they are. One has a disturbing and harrowing chase scene that concludes with a pig rescuing a deranged, drowning dog hanging upside down by a chain. The other has a disturbing and harrowing pot-induced marital argument in a bedroom. All I know is, I get a similar hit off these two movies. They’re so otherworldly that I sometimes doubt my memory of them. They feel like dreams I had as a kid, or movies I once pretended to have seen."
(Thanks to Hugh!)
Updated: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 10:05 PM CST
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