Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 25 October 2024 - 31 October 2024

Happy Halloween; it's almost the end of Nosferatu season, at least for a couple months.

• Venom: The Last Dance claims to be the series finale, with Tom Hardy and writer/director Kelly Marcel finally getting a chance to make one of these without some director who wants to make a normal movie interfering, apparently involving Knull, the symbiote King in Black, attacking earth. It plays the Capitol, Fresh Pond, Jordan's Furniture (Imax), West Newton, Boston Common (including Dolby Cinema & RealD 3D & Spanish subtitled shows), Causeway Street (including RealD 3D), Kendall Square, the Seaport (including Dolby Atmos), South Bay (including Imax Xenon 2D/3D & RealD 3D & Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (including Imax Laser 2D/3D & RealD 3D & Dolby Cinema), Arsenal Yards (including CWX), and Chestnut Hill.
  
  Also out this week is Conclave, with Ralph Finnes as the cardinal in charge of the process to select a new pope, with Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, and Isabella Rossellini in the supporting cast and apparently even more skullduggery than one might expect. It's at the Coolidge, West Newton, Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay, Assembly Row, and Chestnut Hill.
  
  Your Monster plays at Boston Common; it stars Melissa Barrera as an actress who falls in love with the monster living in her closet (Tommy Dewey).
  
  Longlegs gets a full-week re-release including a pre-recorded Q&A and a preview of The Monkey at Boston Common, the Seaport, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
  
  The week's concert and music doc films include Tears for Fears Live (A Tipping Point Film) at Kendall Square, Boston Common, and the Seaport Saturday; Whitney Houston: The Concert for a New South Africa at Assembly Row Sunday; Luther: Never Too Much at Assembly Row Wednesday; Megan Thee Stallion: In Her Own Words at Assembly Row (Imax Laser) Wednesday, and Sabaton: The Tour to End All Tours at Boston Common Wednesday & Thursday.
  
  Five Nights at Freddy's is the "Blum Fest" show at Boston Common on Wednesday. Coraline has 3D shows at Boston Common and South Bay on Tuesday; Boston Common has an extra Rocky Horror Picture Show on Thursday; dunno if Full Body Cast is there like on Saturday nights.
• The Coolidge Corner Theatre gets a 35mm print of Sean Baker's new film Anora, which stars Mikey Madison as a call girl who has a whirlwind romance with a Russian heir whose parents do not approve and come to New York to get the marriage annulled. The shows on screen #1 are on film, the rest on DCP, and it also plays at Kendall Square and Boston Common; it expands to the Seaport and Assembly Row next week.
  
  Midnights at the Coolidge are a 35mm print of The Tomb Of Ligea for Friday's Corman show, with a digital restoration of Frankenhooker also playing on Friday, and the annual all-35mm Horror Marathon on Saturday. It kicks off with The Invisible Man '33 and The Fly '86, then has five more mad scientists before concluding at noon. For other spooky stuff, there's also a Kids' Show of Monster House on Saturday, Rosemary's Baby on Sunday, a 35mm print of A Nightmare on Elm Street (including a seminar by Ava M. Fields) on Monday, The Tingler in Percepto! On Wednesday, and a Scream Halloween House Party on Thursday with the first and fifth films in the series.
  
  Sunday's Goethe-Institut matinee is Elbow, with both director Aslı Özarslan and Fatma Aydemir, author of the source novel, on hand for a Q&A afterward. There's also The Manchurian Candidate on Tuesday with an introduction by Judge Nancy Gertner, and a Cinema Jukebox show of The Crow '94 on Wednesday. The latter two are kind of spooky-adjacent, but not quite Halloween movies.
• The Seaport Alamo appears to be the only place opening Magpie, which features Daisy Ridley as the mother of a child actress who begins to have suspicions of her husband when the girl is cast in a movie with a superstar; Other specials include Halloween '78 (Friday/Thursday), The Craft (Friday/Sunday/Tuesday), Wes Craven's New Nightmare (Saturday/Wednesday), Creature from the Black Lagoon (RealD 3D Sunday/Monday), The Guest (Monday/Tuesday), and a Rocky Horror Movie Party on Thursday.
• Landmark Kendall Square picks up My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock, a documentary of sorts which imagines the director rewatching his films in the 21st Century and reassessing them, with Alistair McGowan supplying the voice.
  
  Tuesday's Retro Replay at Kendall Square is Go and Wednesday's Fright Night Retro is Trick 'r Treat.
• Two new releases from India at Apple Fresh Pond starting Friday - Telugu-language action film Pottel and Malayalam-language thriller Pani. Wednesday has three opening - Ka (also at Causeway Street) and Lucky Bhaskar in Telugu and Amaran (also at Boston Common) in Tamil - with two more on Thursday, Tamil films Bloody Beggar and Brother. Held over (through Tuesday) are Tamil-language Vettaiyan (also at Boston Common) and Jigra (Hindi).
  
  Chinese thriller High Forces, directed by Oxide Pang with Andy Lau as a security expert aboard a hijacked airliner, is the last of the National Week movies to make its way stateside. It plays Causeway Street.
  
  Is Ghibli Fest still a "fest" if it continues year-round? This week, Kiki's Delivery Service plays Boston Common, South Bay, Assembly Row, and Arsenal Yards Sunday/Tuesday (dubbed) & Monday/Wednesday (subtitled); its also subtitled at Boston Common & Arsenal Yards on Saturday, but not at Arsenal Yards Tuesday & Wednesday. In other anime, Look Back stays around at Boston Common. Gundam Fest also continues (concludes?) with Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space at Boston Common, South Bay, and Assembly Row on Sunday.
• The Brattle Theatre has the back half of the GlobeDocs Film Festival over the weekend, with Porcelain War and 2073 on Friday; Martha, Union, Recovery City< and Whatever It Takes on Saturday; and Local Shorts, Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, Separated, and Zurawski v Texas on Sunday.
  
  Friday's matinee is The Bride of Frankenstein on 35mm film. There's more Halloween stuff after the festival, with Kwaidan on 35mm film Monday, Evil Dead 2 on 35mm film Monday & Tuesday, Practical Magic with author Alice Hoffman on Tuesday, and Nosferatu with the Andrew Alden Ensemble on Wednesday.
  
  Then, on Thursday, they kick off the IFFBoston Fall Focus with Nightbitch and It's Not Me.
• The Harvard Film Archive continues António Campos and the Promise of Cinema Nuovo, with Trás-os-Montes (Friday 7pm), Mild Manners on 35mm (Friday 9:15pm), and The Vows on 35mm (Sunday 7pm). They also finish the Melville et Cie series with 35mm prints: Le Doulos (7pm Saturday), Claude Sautet's Max and the Junkmen (9:15pm Saturday), and Army of Shadows (3pm Sunday) Then on Monday, they have two more of Harry Smith's numbered films: Film No. 12 (Heaven and Earth Magic Feature) on 16mm film, as well as "Film No. 16 (Oz: The Tin Woodman's Dream)" on 35mm.
• The Regent Theatre has one show of Eno, Gary Hustwit's documentary about the ambient musician that is different each time, with a panel discussion on Friday night.
• The Somerville Theatre is doing a bunch of spooky stuff this week, with a double feature of 1986 heavy-metal horror film Trick or Treat presented by The Spooky Picture Show and Horror Arts Collective, with a secret second feature afterward. Later that night, the Midnight Special is Nosferatu with the Radiohead sync soundtrack. Sunday's "Silents, Please" show with Jeff Rpasis is The Bat, while the evening features a double feature of Basket Case & The Gate, the second in 35mm; Monday's is Night of the Creeps & Night of the Comet, with the second again being on film; same deal on Tuesday with Beetlejuice & Little Shop of Horrors; while both the original Friday the 13th & Halloween look to be digital. Halloween Night is Rocky Horror with Teseracte Players.
  
  The Capitol has a Saturday 4th Wall show featuring Pearl Sugar, Dress Better Please, and Kai Burns, with Digital Awareness on visuals.
• Movies at MIT has Dr. Strangelove or: Low I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb on and Saturday; the email suggests you give them a head's up if you're not part of the MIT community.
• The Museum of Science has Coco on the Omni screen Friday and Saturday evenings.
• The Lexington Venue has We Live in Time and The Apprentice Friday/Saturday/Sunday/Thursday. For Halloween, they have 9pm shows of Longlegs Friday & Saturday and Halloween '78 Friday/Saturday/Thursday, with the Radiohead Nosferatu playing Saturday afternoon.
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens Venom 3, Conclave, We Live in Time, and The Goldman Case, , holding over Blink, Saturday Night, The Apprentice, The Wild Robot, and The Substance. They play ParaNorman on Sunday, War Game with post-film discussion on Tuesday, Get Out on Wednesday.
  
  The Luna Theater has Terrifier 3 Friday & Sunday, The Exorcist Saturday, Halloween '78 Saturday & Sunday, and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Sunday.
  
  Cinema Salem is Friday to Wednesday but closed on Halloween, with Smile 2, Halloween '78, and Hocus Pocus Friday to Wednesday; Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Friday, Shaun of the Dead for the Friday Night Light show, global horror indie Beach Chain on Saturday, and A Nightmare on Elm Street Saturday to Wednesday. There are Universal Monsters movies pretty much all day from Friday to Tuesday.
  
  If you can make it to the Liberty Tree Mall in Danvers, they have Let's Start a Cult, Stavros Halkias as a cultist who missed the mass-suicide teaming up with the former leader to start things up again.
• Joe's Free Films calendar shows three BU Albertine Cinematheque French Film Festival shows this week: The Beast (with post-film discussion) on Friday, Lumumba: The Death of a Prophet on Tuesday, and Scarlet on Wednesday.

I am down for Venom 3, Conclave, Magpie, and High Forces while trying to fit in a 35mm Anora and maybe some Halloween stuff around the World Series. Also, I didn't get that HFA membership to not catch some of the last few Melville shows, especially Army of Shadows.