The first issue of the Natty Cinema zine is available to purchase at Gem Restaurant. The first issue features a hand full of films paired with wines that are also available to purchase at Gem’s bottle shop!
Where to Watch... I Love New York
Here’s a list (updated as of 2/14/21) of where to watch some of the films included in the first three volumes of I Love New York!
Volume One
Working Girl - Amazon Prime
Love Is All There Is - Amazon Prime & Hulu
Sabrina - Amazon Prime
Saving Face - Amazon Prime
Love Story - Hulu
An Autumn’s Tale - QIY
Green Card - Hulu
West Side Story - Hulu
Chasing Amy - HBO Max
Someone Like You… - YouTube
Two Weeks Notice - HBO Max
Volume Two
The Wedding Banquet - Amazon Prime
Pipe Dream - Amazon Prime
Ghost - Amazon Prime
Just My Luck - HBO Max
Splash - Disney Plus
9 1/2 Weeks - HBO Max
Volume Three
Raising Victor Vargas - Amazon Prime
Mr. Jealousy - Amazon Prime
Barefoot In The Park - Amazon Prime
Coming to America - Amazon Prime
Endless Love - Hulu
Losing Ground - Criterion Channel
She’s Gotta Have It - Netflix
Blue Valentine - HBO Max
If A Man Answers - YouTube
Weddings and Babie - DailyMotion
Valentine's Day Playlists
I Love New York Zines
The trilogy of zines is complete!
This is my third year putting out my zine, I Love New York. The zine was inspired by a book I bought at the Metrograph Book Fair a couple of years ago called Screen World by John Willis. It is a published, hard-cover catalog of films released in the US and abroad in a specific year and a new volume was published annually. I ended up buying volumes for 1970, 1971, 1972, and 1988. I used the 1988 Volume in particular for my formatting inspiration.
All three issues of the zine are available to purchase! More info here…
Films on Isolation
Denise Calls Up (1996) - a movie told over the phone
Baby Boom (1987) - Diane Keaton makes home made baby food in Vermont due to lack of socializing
Blast From The Past (1999) - a family lives in a bunker for 35 years
You’ve Got Mail (1998) - how everyone is dating right now
Groundhog Day (1993) - every day feeling the same
Watchlist - July 2020
Down in the Delta (dir. Maya Angelou) Criterion Channel *leaving end of July*
Daughters of Dust (dir. Julie Dash) Criterion Channel
My Brother’s Wedding (dir. Charles Burnett) Criterion Channel
Babylon (dir. Franc Rosso) Criterion Channel
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm [part 1 and 2] (dir. William Greaves) Criterion Channel
Certain Women (dir. Kelly Reichardt) Criterion Channel
My Own Private Idaho (dir. Gus Van Sant) Criterion Channel *leaving end of July*
Water Lilies (dir. Celine Scciamma) Criterion Channel
My Beautiful Laundrette (dir. Stephen Frears) Criterion Channel
The Living Dead (dir. Gregg Araki) Criterion Channel
Field N****s (dir. Khalik Allah) Criterion Channel
Privilege (dir. Yvonne Rainer) Criterion Channel
Wanda (dir. Barbara Loden) Criterion Channel
Luminous Motion (dir. Bette Gordon) Criterion Channel
Friends with Money (dir. Nicole Holofcener) Criterion Channel *leaving end of July*
High Heels (dir. Pedro Almdvar) Criterion Channel
Golden Eighties (dir. Chantal Akerman) Criterion Channel
A River Called Titas (dir. Ritwik Ghatak) Criterion Channel
Too Late to Die Young (dir. Dominga Sotomayor) Criterion Channel
Chungking Express (dir. Wong Kar-Wai) Criterion Channel
Fallen Angles (dir. Wong Kar-Wai) Criterion Channel
Happy Together (dir. Wong Kar-Wai) Criterion Channel
Close Up (dir. Abbas Kiarostami) Criterion Channel
Y Tu Mama También (dir. Alfonso Curon) Criterion Channel
Taipei Story (dir. Edward Yang) Criterion Channel
Yi Yi (dir. Edward Yang) Criterion Channel
Manila in the Claws of Light (dir. Lin Brocka) Criterion Channel
More (dir. Barbet Schroeder) Criterion Channel
Saving Face (dir. Alice Wu) Amazon Prime
Violets Are Blue (dir. Jack Fisk) Amazon Prime
The Last Black Man in San Francisco (dir. Joe Talbot) Amazon Prime
Dust in the Wind (dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien) Amazon Prime
The Time to Live and the Time to Die (dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien) Amazon Prime
Party Girl (dir. Daisy von Scherler Mayer) Amazon Prime
All About You (dir. Christine Swanson) Amazon Prime
The Search for One-Eye Jimmy (dir. Sam Henry Kass) Amazon Prime
Premature (dir. Rashaad Ernesto Green) Hulu
Shirley (dir. Josephine Decker) Hulu
Thelma & Louise (dir.Ridley Scott) Hulu
Sprung (dir. Rusty Cundieff) Hulu
Lemon (dir. Janicza Bravo) Hulu
Person to Person (dir. Dustin Guy Defa) Hulu
Non-Fiction (dir. Olivier Assayas) Hulu
Get on the Bus (dir. Spike Lee) Netflix
Da 5 Bloods (dir. Spike Lee) Netflix
She’s Gotta Have It (dir. Spike Lee) Netflix
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (dir. Beeban Kidron) Netflix
Burning (dir. Lee Chang-dong) Netflix
Private Life (dir. Tamara Jenkins) Netflix
Lovesong (dir. So Yong Kim) Netflix
Atlantics (dir. Mati Diop) Netflix
Boys Don’t Cry (dir. Kimberly Peirce) HBO
Glitter (dir. Vondie Curtis-Hall) HBO
Green Card (dir. Peter Weir) HBO
How Stella Got Her Groove Back (dir. Kevin Rodney Sullivan) HBO
Mr. Wonderful (dir. Anthony Minghella) HBO
She’s the One (dir. Edward Burns) HBO
Outfit Dissecting (Class Project) - Is there a movie that changed the way you think about your personal style?
My style is a distillation of classic cosmopolitan chic and years of shy adolescent fumblings that no movie better epitomizes than The Graduate. The trajectory of Elaine’s style throughout the film is something that has always stuck with me, especially amidst some of the more iconic looks that surround her. The Graduate is so much about the familial and societal influences we choose to either abide by or reject. Generational ideas of taste, style and appropriate dress are an undercurrent of this film.
Elaine starts out the film as the perfect girl-next-door in a pink shift dress and a cream peacoat (set against her mother’s shiny and sheer party dress). Having had, myself, a mother whose style was one to be looked at, the choice to be understated has always felt more my own. Elaine’s look in the earlier part of the film echoes this common misunderstanding between mother and daughter, one of age and generational difference. The outfit she wears on her date with Benjamin seems to be the product of what had been advertised to young women in magazines and in shop windows, a direction I most certainly defaulted to at that age.
Later in the film, during Elaine’s collegiate years, she has finally seemed to come into her own (truthfully something that took me far beyond college to figure out). She’s found pieces, fabrics, colors, and hairstyles that suit her. When Benjamin goes to visit her at college, she wears a knee-length brown suede coat, a chunky wool sweater, knee-high leather boots, and a turtle neck. With muted olives, browns & her hair in a low ponytail, she is understated, smart, collegiate, and grown-up. These pieces are an investment, a more mature way to grow one’s wardrobe. She retains many of these polished, semi-professional and conservative undertones from her youth, while still looking cool, in-the-know and handsome (unisex, in the way Katharine Hepburn is described). Elaine’s clothes are rarely sexual or seductive; they don’t show much of her shape. There is always something practical and almost obvious about them, and yet they are a seamless part of the undeniable cool of The Graduate.
The Graduate is a film that I’ve always felt spoke to me. It’s a film that best describes the moments in life when you feel like you’re living in a movie. To me, this feels like moments of reflection and a newfound perspective, where development is palpable instead of sudden. My style has been a gradual progression based on familial, cultural and environmental influences that have brought me towards a place that feels chicly like Elaine.
