- The good folks at The Brattle Theatre are celebrating 50 Years of The Million Year Picnic, a comic book shop more or less across the street from the theater and where I get an excessive amount of paper product weekly; it's believed to be the oldest continually-operating shop of the sort in the country and run by good folks. The series kicks off with a double feature of Crumb (35mm) & Ghost World on Friday; separate shows of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (35mm), "The Picnic" (a new short doc about the place by former employee Vincent-louis Apruzzese), and Robot Dreams, with original comic creator Sara Varon in person play on Saturday; and Sunday offers single shows of Black Panther, Nimona, Persepolis, and Tank Girl.
It's back to the vertical schedule after that. The Columbia musicals are a double feature of Pal Joey & Rock Around the Clock, the latter on 35mm film, on Monday and Bye Bye Birdie on Tuesday. They start the "Summer of Sofia" series on Wednesday with Sofia Coppola's two latest, Priscilla & On the Rocks, while "Cruel Summer" starts on Thursday with A Streetcar Named Desire & Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Thursday is also Art House Theater Day, with this year's selection a 40th Anniversary restoration of The Terminator, with a pre-recorded interview with James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd afterward. - The big release this weekend is Twisters, which scans as mostly a remake of Twister with Daisy Edgar-Jones and Glen Powell as a book-smart scientist and an amateur tornado chaser in the middle of an exceptionally crazy season. Lee Isaac Chung of Minari directs, so it's at least cool to see him get a big budget. It's at The Museum of Science (Omnimax Fridays/Saturdays), the Capitol, Fresh Pond, The Embassy, Jordan's Furniture (Imax), CinemaSalem, Boston Common (including Imax Xenon/Dolby Cinema), Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay (including Imax Xenon/Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (including Imax Laser/Dolby Cinema), Arsenal Yards (including CWX), and Chestnut Hill.
Also opening is Oddity, a British horror movie where a medium with an antique shop full of cursed objects uses a horrific mannequin to investigate her twin sister's death. It's at Boston Common, Causeway Street, the Seaport, South Bay, and Assembly Row; in an odd quirk of scheduling, its American run will probably be finished by the time it's the very last film to play at Fantasia.
The NeverEnding Story has anniversary shows at Boston Common, South Bay, and Arsenal Yards on Sunday and Monday. There's a mystery preview at Boston Common, Causeway Street, and Assembly Row on Monday. The Secret Life of Pets has Monday & Wednesday matinees at Boston Common, Causeway Street, and South Bay. Some of the early shows of Deadpool & Wolverine at Boston Common (Dolby Cinema) and Assembly Row (Dolby Cinema) on Thursday are "Fan Events". - The Coolidge Corner Theatre, the Lexington Venue, West Newton, and Boston Common open Widow Clicquot, which stars Haley Bennett as a young woman in an arranged marriage who soon came to love her husband, taking over his wine business after he dies and building it into something nobody would have expected from a woman at the turn of the 19th Century.
Also opening at the Coolidge and Boston Common is National Anthem, with Charlie Plummer as a handyman who meets a group of unconventional rodeo performers and falls hard for one while trying to learn things about himself.
Midnights at the Coolidge this weekend are All About Evil (Friday) and Office Killer (Saturday), with the After Midnite crew also hosting an outdoor double feature of The Wicker Man & Midsommar at Rocky Woods. Sunday afternoon has a special screening of Free LSD, an oddity made by the band OFF! with members Keith Morris 9who stars) and Dimitri Coats (who directs) on hand for a Q&A afterward. Tuesday's Godzilla vs The Coolidge feature is Godzilla vs. Hedorah, and Thursday's Big Screen Classic is Dirty Dancing. Boston Jewish Film will be screening Between the Temples there on Wednesday, and you have to go to BJF's site for ticketing, as opposed to the Coolidge's. - Three new films from India open at Apple Fresh Pond this weekend: Bad Newz (also at Boston Common) is a Hindi-language romantic comedy about two Punjabi men and a Hindu girl who gets pregnant after a one-night stand; Darling is a Telugu romance, and Birthday Boy is a Telugu-language comedy about five friends whose overseas birthday party goes awry.
Indian 2 continues at Fresh Pond (Tamil), Kalki 2898-AD continues at Boston Common (Hindi).
Customs Frontline, at Causeway Street, is a Hong Kong action film from the insanely productive Herman Yau starring Nicholas Tse and Jacky Cheung as officers who come upon a weapons-smuggling operation.
Koren thriller Escape.continues at Causeway Street. - The Somerville Theatre has Texas rap drama Lost Soulz on the main screen Friday Night, and a new restoration of The Lavender Hill Mob on Saturday & Sunday. Saturday's midnight special is John Carpenter's The Thing, playing on 35mm film. This week's "Hot Summer Nights" shows, presented with IFF Boston, are Risky Business (Monday), Body Double & Jagged Edge (Tuesday), and Fatal Attraction (Wednesday), with all but Body Double listed as screening on 35mm film.
The week's animated matinee at The Capitol is Kung Fu Panda. - The Seaport Alamo opens horror film Crumb Catcher, but just for one matinee per day.
The Seaport Selects show for this weekend is Wong Kar-Wai's Fallen Angels. Also on the rep calendar are The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (Sunday/Tuesday), Crimes of Passion (Monday), Starman (Wednesday), and a return engagement for The People's Joker - The Museum of Fine Arts continues their Boston French Film Festival with The Animal Kingdom (Friday/Tuesday), Auction (Saturday), Toni (Sunday), and All Your Faces (Sunday). Tuesday's show of The Animal Kingdom is outdoors and free.
- The Tuesday Retro Replay musical movie at Landmark Kendall Square is Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
- The Lexington Venue has Widow Clicquot, Despicable Me 4, and Thelma and is open Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday.
The West Newton Cinema opens Widow Clicquot and keeps Fly Me to the Moon, Despicable Me 4, Thelma, Inside Out 2, and Janet Planet (not playing Monday & Thursday).
The Luna Theater has Robot Dreams (Friday/Saturday/Sunday), Tuesday (Saturday/Sunday), Janet Planet (Saturday/Sunday) and a Weirdo Wednesday Show.
Cinema Salem has Twisters, Despicable Me 4, Longlegs, and Inside Out 2 from Friday through Monday. Cruel Intentions plays Saturday afternoon and Teseracte players present Rocky Horror that night. - Outdoor films on the Joe's Free Films calendar this week are Back to the Future (Friday at the MIT Open Space), The Marvels (Saturday at the Prudential Center), Elemental (Kendall Urban Garden/Wednesday at Rindge Avenue Upper School in Cambridge), Jaws (Wednesday at the Charleston Navy Yard), A League of their Own (Thursday at the Lyman Estate in Waltham), Good Burger (Thursday at the Argenziano School in Somerville), and Clueless (Thursday at BostonLanding).
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