Cinetrix is recommending to New Yorkers a BAM film series that starts today, I Can Hear the Guitar: Selected by Olivier Assayas. You should, of course, always heed the Cinetrix’s directives. Much like Dr. Science, she knows more than you do. But in this case even more than usual.
The series slate includes a movie I adore and long to see again, Assayas’s own Cold Water. Alas, it’s a hard movie to get your hands on. Originally made for French television as a sort of after-school special pour sophisticates, it’s a compact, eloquent, and utterly affecting little mood piece. Here’s BAM’s pr