The Best Old Movies on a Big Screen This Week: NYC Repertory Cinema Picks, July 13-19
I’m Gonna Git You Sucka (1988)
Directed by Keenan Ivory Wayans
There is a certain scene in this early Wayans movie that stars a very young, then basically unknown Chris Rock that will forever alter your capacity to hear, utter or read on a menu the expression “order of ribs” without running those words through your mind’s version of Rock’s voice. And that will be just fine with you, because you’ll continue to laugh about it for decades. Promise. What’s more, the rest of the movie, a kind of farragoes of a pastiche of an assemblage of a send-up of the blaxploitation genre—one that even features some of the genre’s greatest stars, such as Bernie Casey and Isaac Hayes—is just as cleverly ridiculous, and at most only slightly less indelible. Another thing that will be humorously clogged in your mind for some time is a certain song about “kung fu fighting,” and how “everyone” was doing it. On that note, Kung Fu Joe is also unforgettable. Paul D’Agostino (July 15, 16, midnight at the Nitehawk)
