Friday, July 12, 2024

Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 12 July 2024 - 18 July 2024

Crap, it's hot. Like, is it worth walking 10 minutes to the T station and getting sweaty and gross to sit in a theater? That sort of hot.
  • Fly Me to the Moon is a high-concept romantic comedy with Scarlett Johansson as a marketing executive who sparks with a launch director played by Channing Tatum during the Apollo program, although higher-ups expect her to fake the moon landing should disaster occur. It's at the Capitol, Fresh Pond, West Newton, Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay, Assembly Row, Arsenal Yards, and Chestnut Hill.

    For those looking for something creepier, there's Longlegs, starring Maika Monroe as an FBI agent investigating a serial killer, who is almost certainly played by Nicolas Cage, although he's been almost entirely absent from the trailers. It's at the Coolidge, Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Kendall Square, Causeway Street, the Seaport, South Bay, and Assembly Row.

    One of my favorites from this year's Independent Film Festival Boston, Dandelion, opens at Boston Common, Causeway Street, the Seaport, and South Bay; it stars KiKi Layne as a Cincinnati musician who takes a trip to a South Dakota motorcycle festival and meets a Scottish folk singer.

    The Lion King has a 30th anniversary run at Boston Common and South Bay. That's the original cel-animated version, so it might be odd when there's a CGI Mufasa trailer attached. A League of Their Own plays Arsenal Yards Sunday.to Wednesday.

    Sci-fi/horror flick Lumina, about a group searching for a friend who has been abducted by aliens, opens limited shows at Causeway Street (and one show Saturday at The Embassy). The trailer, oof, it is not good. Bull Street has limited shows at South Bay, starring Malynda Hale as a woman trying to prevent herself and her grandmother from being evicted from their house by her estranged father.

    There's a screen-unseen preview at Boston Common, Causeway Street, and Assembly Row on Monday. "A24 x Imax" presents Oasis: Supersonic on Tuesday at Jordan's Furniture, South Bay, and Assembly Row. Sing 2 has matinees at Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay on Monday and Wednesday. There are early access shows of Twisters on Wednesday at Boston Common (Dolby Cinema), South Bay (Dolby Cinema/Imax Laser w/ Q&A), Assembly Row (Dolby Cinema/Imax Laser w/ Q&A), and Arsenal Yards (CWX).
  • Icelandic drama Touch, in which a widower seeks his first love, who returned to Japan without a word 50 years earlier, plays The Coolidge Corner Theatre, Kendall Square, Boston Common, amd Assembly Row.

    The Coolidge also has the new 4K restoration of Seven Samurai for its 70th anniversary, a full and fantastic evening of film.

    Midnights at the Coolidge include a 35mm print of Joan Crawford in William Castle's Strait-Jacket on Friday and the original Friday the 13th on Saturday (you do what you can when the Georgian calendar puts nearly a year between months that start on a Sunday); if you still need catching up before MaXXXine, the two previous films will play midnight in chronological order this weekend - Pearl on Friday and X on Saturday. Monday's Big Screen Classic is City of God, Tuesday's "Godzilla vs. the Coolidge" show is a new restoration of Destroy All Monsters, and Thursday's "Rewind!" show is Cruel Intentions on 35mm film, with an after part in the ew Education and Community Engagement Center in the new new addition.
  • The Brattle Theatre has two very different films from France Friday to Monday: Céline and Julie Go Boating is Jacques Rivette's surreal New Wave comic fantasy on its fiftieth anniversary; The Vourdalak is a new period horror film about a French noble trapped in a Serbian cabin with a family fearing their patriarch has returned as a vampire.

    After that, the vertical calendar returns! Mondays and Tuesdays will be the latest "Columbia 100" series, focused on Musical Columbia, with Start Cheering on 35mm film Monday and a twin bill of You Were Never Lovelier & Cover Girl on Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday afternoon are a special engagement of The LInguini Incident, with Rosanna Arquette and David Bowie scheming to rob a restaurant in a throwback screwball comedy. Thursday evening has a 35mm print of Desperately Seeking Susan with director Susan Seidelman in person.
  • Tamil-language blockbuster Indian 2, a sequel to one of S. Shankar's first films (his first since Endhirian sequel 2.0), has Kamal Haasan returning as a vigilante teaming with a young vlogger to fight corruption. It's at Fresh Pond (Tamil/Telugu), Boston Common (Tamil including Imax Xenon/Hindi). Also opening at Fresh Pond, Boston Common is Hindi-language drama Sarfira starring Akshay Kumar as an aviation entrepreneur.

    Kalki 2898-AD continues at Apple Fresh Pond (Telugu/Hindi), Boston Common (Telugu/Tamil); Kill continues at Boston Common and the Seaport.

    Chinese film Life Hotel, with Huang Xyan as an ex-con who gets work in a "home for patients". It's at Causeway Street.

    Korean thriller Project Silence has Familyhood director Kim Tae-gon returning to his horror roots, as an accident traps motorists on a bridge with a monster. It plays Causeway Street, alternating showtimes with Escape.

    The week's Ghibli-fest film is Princess Mononoke, playing Boston Common, South Bay, Assembly Row Sunday (dubbed), Monday (subtitled), Tuesday (dubbed), and Wednesday (subtitled); Arsenal Yards also has it Saturday (subtitled) to Monday.
  • The Somerville Theatre brings back Hundreds of Beavers for the Saturday midnight special and I love that my neighborhood gets a kick out of it. They also team with IFF Boston for a "Hot Summer Nights" series starting this week with American Gigolo on Monday, a 35mm double feature of Body Heat & 9½ Weeks on Tuesday, and another 35mm pairing of Fast Times at Ridgemont High & Flashdance on Wednesday. On Thursday, they have the first of two night or a week-long run of Lost Soulz, about a Texas rapper on a journey of self-discovery.

    The Capitol will be running (mostly) Dreamworks animated matinees this summer, with How to Train Your Dragon first up. They also have another 4th Wall event on Saturday night, with Pew Pew, Scaffolding, and Jim E. Brown playing and visuals by Digital Awareness.
  • The Alamo rep calendar has Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cure for the "Seaport Selects" shows on Friday and Saturday night. Purple Rain plays Friday/Sunday/Tuesday/Wednesday, with Movie Party shows Sunday & Wednesday; Gremlins plays Saturday, a "World of Animation" screening of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind on Monday; and a preview screening of Crumb Catcher on Tuesday (scheduled for a two-day run next Friday & Saturday).
  • The Tuesday Retro Replay musical movie at Landmark Kendall Square is Led Zeppelin: The Song Remains the Same.
  • The Museum of Fine Arts has an unusually busy film schedule with the Boston French Film Festival: Ama Gloria and The Crime Is Mine each have shows Friday & Sunday; Sisterhood and Banel and Adama play Saturday.
  • The Regent Theatre has Water Brother: The Sid Abbruzzi Story on Wednesday, with Abbruzzi on-hand for this documentary about how he is an east-coast skate & surfing legend.
  • The New England Aquarium has Jaws on their giant Imax screen Friday and Saturday.
  • Last weekend for Inside Out 2 on the Omnimax screen at The Museum of Science; Twisters starts showing Friday and Saturday evenings next weekend.
  • The Lexington Venue has Despicable Me 4 and Thelma (returning Friday), and is open all week except for Monday.

    The West Newton Cinema opens Fly Me to the Moon and keeps Despicable Me 4, Kinds of Kindness, A Quiet Place: Day One (Friday to Tuesday), Thelma, Inside Out 2, If (Saturday/Sunday), and Janet Planet.

    The Luna Theater has Robot Dreams (Friday/Saturday/Sunday), Tuesday (Saturday/Sunday/Thursday) , and a Weirdo Wednesday Show.

    Cinema Salem has Kinids of Kindness, Despicable Me 4, Maxxxine, and Inside Out 2 from Friday through Monday. The Friday Night Light late show is Roar, and Cruel Intentions plays Thursday night.
  • Outdoor films on the Joe's Free Films calendar this week are Shrek (Friday at the MIT Open Space), Legally Blonde (Saturday at the Prudential Center), The Rock (Wednesday at the Speedway in Allston, postponed from a previous week), Migration (Wednesday at Timothy J. Twomey Jr. Park in Cambridge), In The Heights (Wednesday at the Charleston Navy Yard), Elemental (Thursday at the Lyman Estate in Waltham), The Mummy (Thursday at the Argenziano School in Somerville), and Up (Thursday at The LOT in Dorchester).
Well, miserably hot or not, if I want to see Kinds of Kindness, Longlegs, Project Silence, The Vourdalak, and maybe Life Hotel in theaters before heading north, let alone Jaws at the Aquarium, Fly Me to the Moon, or any of the Brattle/Somerville programs, I can't waste much of the weekend!

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