The FORT90 FILM CLUB is back with an extra special double dose that serves as a supplement, of sorts, to this month's "New York Stories" program, currently airing on the Criterion Channels. Some (but not all) of their 63 films to deliver as promised, yet there are a few other tales of the Big Apple that didn't make their cut for whatever reason (rights issues are perhaps the biggest culprit). So across two different nights, I'll be presenting some of my favorite tales that are either somewhat more obscure, slightly more off the beaten path, or frankly more interesting than most:

BLAST OF SILENCE - This basically unknown gem is a hard-boiled noir flick that's shot almost in a documentarian style. It's super rough around the edges, due to a frills production, but it totally works in the backdrop of NYC, when it was especially rough and tumble. Legends states that one of the fight scenes took place in the middle of a hurricane, not cuz it was cool but because it was the only opportunity to film that scene. The movie oozes grit and ingenuity and you have basically need to soak it all in.

GHOST DOG - Yup, THAT Ghost Dog, by Jim Jarmusch, one of the finest indie film directors in his class, who managed to distance himself from his contemporaries when they were cranking out the classics that formed mid-late 90s indie filmmaking boom, by producing a modern-day samurai classic. Of all the movies I'll be showing, this perhaps is the one that most have scene, and which most will are overdue for another viewing.

THE FOREIGNER - In many ways a compliment to Allen Baron's Blast of Silence, Amos Poe's The Foreigner is the quintessential No Wave film. It has even less of a budget and the production is even more amateurish, though what should appeal to most modern viewers is how its picture of a grimy NYC is one that is somewhat more familiar, given how it was shot in the late 70s. Oh, did I mention Debbie Harry has a role in this as well?

***SECRET MOVIE #!*** I will again be referring viewers to the club's "alt" channel, to view the four and final film of the night, due it to be potentially too hot for Twitch. All I'm going to say is quote the best part of someone's review on Letterboxd: "It's Brian De Palma's "Jean-Luc Godard makes a porno.""