Friday, October 11, 2024

Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 11 October 2024 - 17 October 2024

Some interesting decisions on what's coming out this weekend - a ton of animation, studios doing it themselves (or not), was the previous release a trial run or always intended as a preview…
  • Piece By Piece, an animated biography of Pharrell Williams done in the style of The Lego Movie - and directed by Morgan Neville, who has done a fair number of biographical documentaries - plays Boston Common, Causeway Street, the Seaport, South Bay (including Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (including Dolby Cinema), and Arsenal Yards.

    Getting a full release from the jump rather than the prior film sticking around after some smaller bookings, Terrifier 3 has Art The Clown attacking his town on Christmas Eve; it's at Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay, and Assembly Row.

    The cheekily-named The Apprentice, with Sebastian Stan as a young Donald Trump learning the ropes from Ray Cohn (Jeremy Strong), opens at the Coolidge, Kendall Square, West Newton, the Lexington Venue, Boston Common, Causeway Street, the Seaport, South Bay, Assembly Row, and Chestnut Hill.

    Saturday Night opened at Boston Common last week and expands to the Coolidge, the Somerville, West Newton, the Lexington Venue, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay, Assembly Row, Arsenal Yards, and Chestnut Hill this week.

    Returning for a regular run after a couple special shows, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story showcases Reeve's recovery after paralysis. It's at Boston Common. Arsenal Yards is the latest stop for the 50th Anniversary tour of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

    The Nightmare Before Christmas makes its regular October returns to theaters at Fresh Pond, Boston Common (including RealD 3D), South Bay (including RealD 3D). Boston Common also has Coco as this week's Hispanic Heritage show.

    Boston Common, semi-randomly, brings back Daddio for a Monday/Tuesday shows. Happy Death Day plays Boston Common on Wednesday. On Thursday, the remastered Tom Petty: Heartbreakers Beach Party, seldom seen since its original airings on MTV 40 years ago, plays Kendall Square, Boston Common, and Assembly Row.
  • My Hero Academia: You're Next!, the latest (and supposedly final) entry in the popular anime series, plays Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, and Assembly Row; check for subbed or dubbed times. Interestingly, Toho itself is distributing it in America, like they did with Godzilla Minus One; and I wonder if they're going to be more active bringing movies directly to North America like Indian/Korean/Chinese studios or if they're just cutting out the middleman for big franchises.

    I'm not sure whether the Sunday/Monday screenings of anime Look Back were meant to be a preview, but it gets a regular release at the Coolidge, the Capitol, and Boston Common. Gundam Fest also continues with Mobile Suit Gundam II: Soldiers of Sorrow at Boston Common, South Bay, and Assembly Row on Wednesday.

    Some big-ish imports this weekend: Hindi-language action movie Jigra, opens at Fresh Pond and Boston Common, starting Alia Bhatt (whom you might remember from RRR) as a woman out to rescue or avenge her brother; Hindi-language comedy Vicky Vidya Ka Woh Wala Video, also at Fresh Pond and Boston Common, stars Triptil Dimri and Rajkummar Rao as a couple whose "home movie" gets stolen (maybe an uncredited remake of 2014's Sex Tape, maybe not); Vettaiyan, the new movie starring Superstar Rajinikanth, opened Wednesday with Tamil and Telugu showtimes at Fresh Pond and at Boston Common in Tamil; Telugu-language drama Janaka Aithe Ganaka and Nepali drama Chhakka Panja 5 also open at Apple Fresh Pond.

    Chinese thriller Tiger Wolf Rabbit continues at Causeway Street.

    Korean concert film/doc Jung Kook: I Am Still returns to Boston Common and the Seaport in a "Party Edition" that includes an extra 20 minutes of sing-along footage; another, Taeyong: Ty Track in Cinemas, plays Boston Common Wednesday.
  • Landmark Kendall Square has the new film from Quentin Dupieux, Daaaaaali!, with Anaïs Demoustier as a journalist intending to make a documentary about Salvador Dali (played by six different actors) which never quite comes together.

    Wednesday's Fright Night Retro Replay is Blade.
  • Holy crap, The Birthday plays The Somerville Theatre from Friday to Sunday! I saw this at Fantasia in 2005 and it just fell through the cracks for twenty years, despite being a fun dark comedy with a weird but intriguing lead performance by Corey Feldman (released by Drafthouse Films, but apparently too weird for the Seaport Drafthouse). They also have Don't Let the Riverbeast Get You!, a locally-produced cult film from 2012, on Friday, and the first of two screenings of the original F.W. Murnau Nosferatu this October on Saturday, with the New England Film Orchestra premiering Al Kryszak’s new score. The week's Hitchcock presentations are Marnie on 35mm film Tuesday and the new 4K restoration of Frenzy on Thursday. On Wednesday, they've got a premiere of Portland, Maine-shot Hangdog, with writer/director Matt Cascella and star Desmin Borges in person.

    The Capitol picks up The Substance, and has The Rocky Horror Picture Show with Teseracte Players on Saturday, including a dance party hosted by Double Feature and a pop-up arcade. Sunday's 4th Wall show is Cat Ridgeway & The Tourists, Johnny Manchild & the Poor Bastards, and Bullpup, but no visual artist listed). Thursday's Creature Double Feature is The Wolf Man & Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man.
  • On top of the new releases, The Coolidge Corner Theatre continues Friday midnight screenings of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, with a 35mm print of The Raven (an adjunct to the Brattle's Corman series) and a digital restoration of Phantasm on Saturday Saturday and Sunday mornings also have a program of Little Kid Flicks, as the Coolidge serves the whole community. Monday's Big Screen Classic is Interview with the Vampire, Tuesday's Castle gimmick show is 13 Ghosts in Illusion-O, while Wednesday's 35mm print of John Waters's Polyester is in Odorama, while Thursday offers both Big Screen Classic I Married a Witch and Cult Classic It Follows
  • The Brattle Theatre begins its two-week salute to Roger Corman: King of Cult: The Little Shop of Horrors & A Bucket of Blood (the lottery on 35mm) Friday night; a 35mm twin bill of X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes & House of User on Saturday; a special anniversary show of Cockfighter with a special video intro from Kier-La Janisse for the late show Saturday; a triple-feature of Gas! Or It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It, The Wild Ages, & The Trip on Sunday; Boxcar Bertha (35mm) & Dementia 13 on Monday; a 35mm print of Targets on Tuesday; and Ride in the Whirlwind & The Shooting on Wednesday.

    They've also got screenings of Sundance's Indigenous Film Tour on Sunday and Monday, and host opening night of the Boston Asian-American Film Festival with All That We Love on Thursday, with filmmaker Yan Tan on hand Thursday.
  • The Harvard Film Archive has a shortish weekend with the Monday holiday, mostly Melville et Cie, with the director's Magnet of Doom and the new restoration of Le samouraï on Friday, plus Jacques Becker's Le Trou on Sunday. Between, on Sunday, they have a Psychedelic Cinema show of 2001: A Space Odyssey on Saturday evening, preceded by Jordan Belson's "Allures" on 16mm film.
  • The Museum of Fine Arts has Eraserhead as the Friday night Cult Classic, plus Global Cinema Now shows of Io Capitano on Saturday afternoon and Auction on Sunday
  • The Seaport Alamo has Wes Craven's original A Nightmare on Elm Street on Friday & Wednesday, Werner Herzog's Nosferatu the Vampyre Saturday Afternoon, Miyazaki's Lupin the 3rd: The Castle of Cagliostro on Sunday & Monday,.Shaun of the Dead Monday & Tuesday (the former a Movie Party show), a BeetleJuice movie party on Tuesday, and Tarsem's newly-restored The Fall on Tuesday & Wednesday (and next weekend)
  • Movies at MIT has Blade Runner 2049 on Friday and Saturday, $5, open to the public, although the email suggests you give them a head's up if you're not part of the MIT community.
  • The Museum of Science will be showing Coco on the Omni screen for two weekends, starting on the 25th.
  • The Lexington Venue has Saturday Night and The Apprentice all week besides Monday. Documentary Bob Mackie: Naked Illusion has an encore show on Saturday, and Nosferatu on Thursday, synchronized to the music of Radiohead.

    The West Newton Cinema gets Saturday Night and The Apprentice, continuing, Joker 2, White Bird, Lee, The Wild Robot, and The Substance (no show Tuesday). The Halloween movie for Wednesday is the musical Little Shop of Horrors.

    The Luna Theater Terrifier 3 Friday to Sunday; The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Saturday; the original Nosferatu synced to Radiohead on Saturday; John Carpenter's original Halloween on Saturday and Sunday; documentary Magic Trip, introduced by Brian Hassett (who will interview "Merry Prankster" George Walker via Zoom afterward); a Weirdo Wednesday show; and a free presentation of Pelo Malo from UMass Lowell's Department of World Languages and Cultures on Thursday.

    Cinema Salem has Joker 2 and A Nightmare on Elm Street Friday to Monday and Wednesday/Thursday, plus more Halloween programming: From Dusk Till Dawn as Friday's Night Light show; Blade Friday and Sunday; Halloween '78 Saturday/Sunday/Wednesday/Thursday, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Saturday & Sunday; a full day of Universal Monsters Sunday (Creature from the Black Lagoon, Dracula, Frankenstein, and Bride of Frankenstein); and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Wednesday & Thursday.
  • Just Poltergeist on the Rose Kennedy Greenway for outdoor films on the Joe's Free Films calendar this week (it's getting chilly); also listed are Made in Germany? with filmmakers at the Harvard Art Museum on Saturday and Messidor showing at BU as part of the Albertine Cinematheque French Film Festival on Wednesday.
May as well see Le Samourai again after Magnet of Doom on Friday, and also penciling in the midnight for The Birthday, Le Trou< and Marnie. Boxcar Bertha is probably my only Cornman-series thing, and the choice of Frenzy and I Married a Witch/It Follows on Thursday is tough.

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