Friday, January 17, 2025

Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 17 January 2025 - 23 January 2025

Fires in L.A. making awards season really weird, with some movies getting re-releases looking to capitalize on things that won't be announced until Thursday.
  • The latest take on Wolf Man has The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell writing and directing, with Christopher Abbot getting scratched in the middle of nowhere during a full moon Julia Garner as his wife who must protect their daughter while initially denying he's turning. It's at Fresh Pond, Jordan's Furniture (Imax), CinemaSalem, Boston Common (including Dolby Cinema), Causeway Street, the Seaport, South Bay (including Imax Xenon), Assembly Row (including Imax Laser), Arsenal Yards (CWX).

    Comedy One of Them Days has Keke Palmer and SZA as mismatched roommates trying to get enough money to cover rent and make a job interview by the end of the day. It's at Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Causeway Street, the Seaport, South Bay, Assembly Row.

    Family adventure Autumn and the Black Jaguar plays matinees at Boston Common.

    Among expansions: The Brutalist, already at the Somerville, the Coolidge, Boston Common, and the Seaport, adds Kendall Square, Assembly Row (including Imax Laser), with Lexington, Jordan's, and South Bay coming next week; September 5 to Kendall Square, Chestnut Hill, (already at Boston Common)

    Films returning include Anora (The Capitol Theatre, Kendall Square, Boston Common), Sing Sing (the Capitol, Kendall Square, Boston Common), The Substance (Kendall Square, Boston Common), and The Wild Robot (Boston Common).

    40th Anniversary screenings of The Goonies play Boston Common, Assembly Row, Arsenal Yards Sunday & Monday. Wednesday's A24 Imax screening at South Bay and Assembly Row is Talk to Me. Romance Marked Men: Rule & Shaw plays Boston Common Wednesday & Thursday
  • Apple Fresh Pond opens Tamil-language biography Emergency, which features Kangana Ranaut, who also directs, as Indira Gandhi during the two-year emergency declaration in the mid-1970s considered a turning point in modern Indian history. Also opening for the week is tamil action-comedy Madha Gaja Raja, while the rest are a bit here and there: Tamil-language romantic drama Kadhalikka Neramillai plays Friday, Saturday, Monday, and Wednesday. Malayalam-language thriller Praavinkoodu Shappu plays Friday to Tuesday and Thursday, mostly matinees. Bengali-language actioner Bohurupi plays Sunday, and a "reloaded" (extended) edition of Pushpa 2: The Rule plays in Telugu on Friday/Saturday/Monday/Wednesday and Hindi Friday to Tuesday and Thursday.

    Held over are Telugu-language action/adventures Daaku Maharaaj, and Sankranthiki Vasthunam (also at Boston Common).

    Hong Kong action flick The Prosecutor and Mainland Chinese thriller Octopus with Broken Arms continue at Causeway Street.
  • The Seaport Alamo has daily shows of Grand Theft Hamlet, which follows two actors staging Hamlet inside Grand Theft Auto during the pandemic, for daily shows through Wednesday. French action flick Night Call plays twice, Friday night and Sunday afternoon.

    Other rep includes Death Becomes Her (Friday/Monday), To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (Saturday), Citizen Kane (Saturday/Monday/Tuesday), and Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret (Sunday).
  • The Brattle Theatre has a 35mm print of Iceman as the Friday Film Matinee, and continues the yearly (Some of) The Best of 2024 series, with a double feature of Good One & His Three Daughters Friday & Saturday, Emilia PĂ©rez on Saturday, a 35mm print of The People's Joker Saturday & Sunday, a double feature of Rumours & Megalopolis on Sunday, Fancy Dance & Sugarcane on Monday, La Chimera & The Beast on Tuesday, Dahomey & Omen on Wednesday, and Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In & Monkey Man on Thursday.
  • The ICA has three screenings of Eno on Friday evening and Saturday & Sunday afternoons; each will be different, as director Gary Hustwit has built it to re-edit itself with each presentation.
  • The Somerville Theatre has The Brutalist in 70mm on the big screen all week, and also picks up Nickel Boys
  • The Coolidge Corner Theatre holds steady, with the big room featuring The Brutalist in 70mm all week except for a matinee on MLK day, when it will be used for a different event. The midnights on the weekend include Climax for freaky French Films (probably not the series's actual name) and Nothing Underneath for January Giallo on Saturday. Saturday afternoon has a "Brookline for the Culture" presentation of Beasts of the Southern Wild, while Sunday afternoon is a "Projections" show of Star Trek: First Contact. Projections also offers John Carpenter's They Live on Tuesday (with Open Screen down the hall) and The Fifth Element on Wednesday (with a pre-film seminar hosted by Lesley University's Ingrid Stobbe). Thursday's Big Screen Classic is Fargo
  • The Harvard Film Archive is back for the spring semester with "The Reincarnations of Delphine Seyrig", paying tribute to an actress who appeared across the entire French New Wave. This weekend's selections include Last Year at Marienbad (35mm Friday), India Song (Saturday & Sunday), La Musica (later Saturday), and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Sunday).
  • Belmont World Film has their 22nd Annual Family Film Festival at three different locations over the long weekend: They'll be in West Newton on Saturday with the "Pet Projects" shorts program, Elli and the Ghostly Train, Dounia and the Great White North, and Winners; at the Regent in Arlington on Saturday for Tiddler, Robin and the Hoods, Hitpig! (with director Q&A),and Tartini's Key, plus a "Learn to Draw Minions & Hotel Transylvania" program downstairs; and at the Brattle in Cambridge on Monday for Toopy and Binoo, Teca & Tuti: A Night in the Library, The Flying Classroom, and Lars is LOL. They'll be back at the Regent next Saturday.
  • The Landmark Kendall Square Tuesday Best Picture Retro Replay this week is The Deer Hunter.
  • In addition to the Family Film Festival, The Regent Theatre screens documentary 76 Days Adrift on Thursday, with executive producer Rob Sennott on hand for an intro & Q&A.
  • The Museum of Fine Arts gets an early start on their annual Festival of Films From Iran with The Seed of the Sacred Fig Friday night, already listed as sold out.
  • The Embassy will be screening The Big Short Friday to Sunday, with A Complete Unknown on another screen.
  • The Lexington Venue is open Friday to Monday plus Wednesday and Thursday with Flow, The Room Next Door, and A Completed Unknown. They will also be celebrating the 108th anniversary of cinema in Lexington with free screenings of the first film to play there, 1917's The Pride of the Clan - which starred Mary Pickford and had some scenes shot in nearby Marblehead, MA - from Friday to Sunday.

    The West Newton Cinema picks up Gaza anthology film From Ground Zero and The Room Next Door. Held over are The Girl With The Needle, The Last Showgirl, Flow, A Complete Unknown, and Babygirl. On Thursday, there's a "Producer's Circle" screening of the work-in-progress The Great Experiment paired with filmmaker Stephen Maing's previous documentary, High Tech, Low Life. The Luna Theater has Babygirl on Friday and Saturday Casablanca on Sunday, and a Weirdo Wednesday show.

    Cinema Salem has Wolf Man, The Last Showgirl, A Complete Unknown, and Nosferatu from Friday to Monday, and a Whodunit watch party on Sunday.
I've got a backlog from last week (and earlier) to attend to, but may do a French double feature (with the Red Line and 60 years in between) of Last Year at Marienbad and Night Call Friday, try to get to Lexington for the silent, and maybe catch Emergency.

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