Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 3 January 2025 - 9 January 2024

Considerate of the studios to mostly let the Christmas movies run while I'm doing work stuff in Texas.

• The biggest opening is The Damned, and Irish horror/thriller in which a ship crashes off the shores of 19th Century Iceland and the poor villagers of a nearby fishing village must deal with the consequences of whether they rescue them or not. It's at Boston Common, Causeway Street, and South Bay.
  
  The new French adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo, a jumbo-sized picture that attempts to capture the full scale of Alexandre Dumas's epic novel, opens at the Capitol and Boston Common.
  
  From Ground Zero is an anthology documentary of 22 short films made in Gaza, and plays Boston Common.
  
  Seven plays Jordan's Furniture and Assembly Row from Friday to Sunday in Imax. There's a "Screen Unseen" mystery preview at Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, and Assembly Row on Monday. The Last Showgirl has a preview with live-streamed Q&A afterward at South Bay and Assembly Row on Wednesday.
• The Coolidge Corner Theatre has a 35mm print for the Nickel Boys in screen #1, although that's basically matinees Friday to Wednesday because Nosferatu and rep has the night shift. Boys is RaMell Ross's adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about two Black kids in Florida; it seems to alternate from their literal first-person perspectives. It also plays (on DCP only) at the Kendall and Boston Common.
  
  January's Friday midnight shows at the Coolidge will be French cult films, starting with Claire Denis's Trouble Every Day, with Cruising on Saturday. On Saturday afternoon, they have an encore show of Return of the Jedi, which sold out on Wednesday. Sunday morning offers a selection of "Big Kids' Flicks" from the New York Children's Film Festival. Not for kids is the animated "Projections" entry Fantastic Planet, playing Sunday afternoon. Mondays Big Screen Classic is a 35mm print of A Fish Called Wanda, with Starship Troopers on Tuesday part of Projections although Thursday's Cult Classic show of The Thing technically is not. Also on Thursday is a preview of All We Imagine of Light, with writer/director Payal Kapadia receiving the Coolidge Breakthrough Award. She'll do a Q&A after the (sold out) 7pm show and introduce the 7:30pm one.
• Korean period action movie Harbin, which follows freedom fighters attempting a massive holiday attack on occupying Japanese forces, opens at Causeway Street, SOuth Bay. It comes from director Woo Min-ho, notably responsible for The Man Standing Next and Inside Men.
  
  Apple Fresh Pond holds over Hindi-language actioner Baby John and brings back a few that got pushed off screen by the big Hollywood Christmas movies: Rifle Club (Malayalam-language) through Sunday, Marco (Kannada-language), Ui (Kannada-language), and Max (Kannada-language). Telugu-language thriller Legally Veer plays Saturday afternoon. Robot director S Shankar's newest, Telugu-language actioner Game Changer opens Thursday (also at Boston Common).
  
  The Last Dance from Hong Kong, as well as Her Story and Honey Money Phony from Mainland China, continue at Causeway Street.
  
  Satoshi Kon's Paprika screens at Boston Common, South Bay, Assembly Row, in Japanese on Wednesday and dubbed on Thursday.
• The Brattle Theatre opened a new 4K restoration of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg on the 2nd, and it continues to play at least one show a day through Thursday the 9th.
  
  Filling out the rest of the program are a Friday Film Matinee of Werner Herzog's Encounters at the End of the World, Escape from New York on Friday & Saturday, a 4K restoration of Andrei Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice Sunday to Tuesday, Moonage Daydream for David Bowie's birthday on Wednesday, and a 35mm print of Caligula: The Ultimate Cut on Thursday.
• The Seaport Alamo has Speed Racer on Saturday, Mad Max: Fury Road on Saturday & Wednesday, Bergman's Persona on Sunday, Possession on Monday, and A Clockwork Orange on Tuesday.
• The Capitol Theatre has a 4th Wall show on Sunday night with Pulsr, Grief Mop, Community College, and Alexander and visual by Digital Awareness. On Thursday, they play Mac and Me as the first film in a cult movie series hosted by High Energy Vintage and Disasterpiece Theater.
• Landmark Kendall Square has a secret First Look preview on Monday and starts a weekly Retro Replay series of Best Picture winners on Tuesday with Casablanca. They also bring some more of Netflix's potential award nominees back, with Emilia Perez all week, Will and Harper and on Wednesday, Maria on Wednesday and Thursday, plus Daughters on Thursday.
• Joe's Free Films shows a screening of The Vasulka Effect at the MIT Bartos Theatre on Wednesday as part of the Individual Activity Period; the documentary on Steina & Woody Vasulka is free and open to the public (and there's pizza), with RSVPs required.
• The Lexington Venue is open Friday to Sunday and Wednesday with Mufasa and A Completed Unknown.
  
  The West Newton Cinema keeps last week's schedule of A Complete Unknown, Babygirl, Nosferatu, Mufasa, Sonic 3, and Wicked. They also show Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God on Thursday.
  
  The Luna Theater has Queer on Friday/Saturday, Ghost Cat Anzu on Saturday, Anora on Saturday/Thursday, The Wizard of Oz on Sunday, and a Weirdo Wednesday show.
  
  Cinema Salem has A Complete Unknown, Nosferatu, Mufasa, and WIcked from Friday to Monday.

Will probably catch Harbin and The Damned, possibly Nickel Boys on 35mm film, and it's probably last call for Wicked in 3D. Then to Texas for a week of meetings and probably not having a movie theater near the hotel so I can duck out of team-building nonsense.