Seth Meyers' worst nightmare (Patreon)

Apologies to most of you, who won't get that dumb joke because you don't religiously watch Late Night's Corrections segment. Anyway, The Day of the Jackal won this week's three-way request-poll showdown, receiving nearly half the vote vs. Incendies (32%) and Back to the Future Part II (20%). Saw it on the big screen* in 2002, don't really remember what I thought apart from not loving it enough to place it on my '73 top 10 list. Readily rentable everywhere.

* Yesterday I mentioned that this was one of very few rep screenings I saw when I lived in New York for which I hadn't been able to confirm the venue. Just now, because I am stubborn, I tried again, and found this Delphine Seyrig retro that covers the date in question. "Wait, was Seyrig in Day of the Jackal?" Indeed she was, so "mystery" solved; I feel confident that must be where/how I saw it. It was in fact the first film I saw "at" MoMA during the long stretch, from November 2002 to at least March 2004, when they screened films at the Gramercy theater on 23rd St. because the museum proper was closed for extensive remodeling. 

Because I stumbled onto it looking for something else, here's a glimpse of cinephile life nearly 30 years ago, when there were very few websites (IMDb was still known as the Cardiff Internet Movie Database at that point, didn't have remotely as much info) and books were everyone's primary reference.

Judging from my log, we wound up renting Eating Raoul that night instead. I didn't see the Leone for another 12 years, when it screened at Film Forum.