Some good stuff here that makes the trip to Montreal for Fantasia a teeny tiny little bit of a tradeoff.
- The new film from Ari Aster, Eddington, takes place in a New Mexico town of the same name, with sheriff Joaquin Phoenix attempting to unseat mayor Pedro Pascal during the 2020 election, where conflicting feelings about Covid measures bring the town to a boiling point. It's at the Somerville, the Coolidge, Fresh Pond, West Newton, Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
There's also another "mostly new cast like a remake, but also the survivors from the original are back, so they've got two movies with the same name on their IMDB page" horror sequel, I Know What You Did Last Summer, with some guy knocking off a group of friends who have covered up a death. It's at the Capitol, Fresh Pond, CinemaSalem, Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay, Assembly Row, and Arsenal Yards.
Kind of weird: All the advertising for Smurfs only mentions Rihanna as Smurfette among the celebrity voices, and I suppose that she's a big enough star that the rest would be dwarfed by comparison, but it's still odd. Anyway, she leads the other blue guys trying to find Papa Smurf (John Goodman!) after he's abducted. It's at Boston Common (including Spanish-dubbed shows), Causeway Street, the Seaport, South Bay, Assembly Row, Arsenal Yards, and Chestnut Hill.
Kids matinees include Where the Wild Things Are at Kendall Square Saturday/Sunday/Wednesday, Trolls at Fresh Pond Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday, and The Wild Robot at South Bay Monday/Wednesday.
Mystery movies at Boston Common, Causeway Street, the Seaport, South Bay, Assembly Row on Monday. Non-mystery preview screening of Together at Boston Common, the Seaport, Assembly Row Wednesday. Some of the early shows of The Fantastic Four: First Steps on Thursday at Boston Common (Imax Laser), Assembly Row (Imax Laser) are "fan events". Roger Waters concert documentary This Is Not a Drill plays Boston Common, Kendall Square on Wednesday.
- The Coolidge Corner Theatre opens Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, the directorial debut of actress Embeth Davidtz (who did Army of Darkness and Schindler's List within a couple years of each other back in the 1990s), following a white 8-year old girl whose entire world changes as "Rhodesia" becomes Zimbabwe in 1980. It also plays the Capitol, Kendall Square, and Boston Common.
A digital restoration of Scum of the Earth plays the Coolidge at midnight on both Friday and Saturday; also playing late are Shogun Assassin, which stitches two Lone Wolf and Cub films into one, dubbed into English, on Friday, and a 35mm print of Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai on Saturday. Sunday features a rescheduled 35mm print of Kuroneko, with the original Hideo Nakata Ringu playing as Tuesday's "Kaidan Kimodameshi" show; Boyz N the Hood is the 35mm Big Screen Classic (with Mikal J. Gaines seminar) on Monday; "a Spike & Denzel" series kicks off with Mo' Better Blues on 35mm Wednesday; and Thursday's Big Screen Classic is the 2005 Pride & Prejudice.
(They're also the venue for Boston Jewish Film's Summer Cinematheque screening of Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse on Thursday, with director Philip Dolin on-hand and tickets available on BJF's website.)
- Landmark Kendall Square's Tuesday comedy classic is Billy Madison.
- Apple Fresh Pond opens Hindi-language romance Saiyaara (also at Boston Common), Hindi-language family drama Tanvi: The Great (also at Boston Common), Tamil-language romantic comedy Bun Butter Jam, and Telugu-language drama Junior on Friday. Telugu-language historical epic Hari Hara Veera Mallu Part 1: Sword Vs Spirit opens Wednesday at Fresh Pond, Boston Common, and Causeway Street.
Anime Jujutsu Kaisen: Hidden Inventory/Premature Death - The Movie plays at Boston Common and Causeway Street. Ghibli Fest this week is I>My Neighbor Totoro, at Boston Common, Assembly Row dubbed Saturday./Sunday and subtitled Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday Skin Your Teeth, a selection of 6 episodes from the first season of Tokyo Ghoul, plays Boston Common, Kendall Square, and the Seaport on Monday.
- The Brattle Theatre has the new, uncut 4K restoration of Shall We Dance? through Monday, along with three others starring Koji Yakusho: Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cure on Friday & Sunday, Wim Wenders's Perfect Days Saturday & Sunday, and Juzo Itami's Tampopo on Saturday.
For the vertical schedule, "Altmania" continues with Nashville Monday & Tuesday and Summer of Satire takes over Wednesday nights with Duck Soup. There's also a Grrl Haus Cinema program on Thursday, and an Art House Theater Day presentation of The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, newly restored and with a recorded introduction from Lily Tomlin, on Thursday.
- The Harvard Film Archive is all 35mm Mikio Naruse this weekend: The Approach of Autumn (Friday evening), Sound of the Mountain (Friday night), Husband and Wife (Saturday evening), Mother (Saturday night), A Wife's Heart (Sunday afternoon), Yearning (Sunday evening), and Anzukko (Monday night).
- The Somerville Theatre has Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse on Friday and Sunday, with the original Roadshow cut of Apocalypse Now on Saturday, including facsimiles of the original souvenir booklet handed out in 1979. Saturday's Midnight special is Corvette Summer (Mark Hammill's first role after Star Wars & Annie Potts's debut). Monday's Great Remakes double feature is the 1957 & 2007 versions of 3:10 to Yuma; Wednesday's Summer Camp selection is a 35mm print of Die! Die! My Darling!, and Thursday features indie WWW.RACHELORMANT.COM.
The Capitol Theatre has a 4th Wall show with Flowers for the Dead, Ian St. George, and Tunneling on Sunday.
- Sorry, Baby expands to The Seaport Alamo, which also plays The Birds on Saturday, has a preview of Together with livestreamed Q&A on Sunday, and music doc Who Let the Dogs Out? with live Q&A on Tuesday.
- There's a pretty full slate of outdoor screenings listed at Joe's Free Films: Flow at the MIT Open Space and Beetlejuice at the Charles River Esplanade on Friday; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem at Ringe Field in Cambridge, Beetlejuice at Castle Island, Meangirls at the Speedway via the Coolidge on Wednesday; and Elf at Boston Landing & The Lion King at Somerville's Lincoln Park on Thursday. There's also a free screening of The Encampments at Out of the Blue Too in Somerville on Sunday.
- The website of The Embassy in Waltham shows one screening of comedy short "Frat Earthers" on Saturday morning, with tickets on sale for Fantastic Four next week. Weird they've been dark for a month in the middle of summer.
The Lexington Venue is open all week but Monday with Eddington, Shall We Dance?, and To a Land Unknown, which follows a Palestinian refugee seeking revenge after being robbed in Athens.
The West Newton Cinema opens Eddington and The Last Class, a documentary following Robert Reich as he teaches his final "Wealth and Poverty" seminar after 40 years. Superman, Bad Shabbos, Elio, Materialists, and *The Life of Chuck continue. Mad Max: Fury Road plays Friday night, Apollo 11 plays Sunday afternoon, and The Lost Boys shows on Thursday night.
Cinema Salem has I Know What you Did Last Summer, 28 Years Later, Jurassic World Rebirth, and Superman through Monday. There are 50th anniversary shows of Dog Day Afternoon on Saturday & Sunday, and Rocky Horror with Teseracte on Saturday night (Full Body Cast is at Boston Common as usual). Wednesday is fully booked with a Classics show of Dial M for Murder, a Craft Night event with Mars Attacks!, and a mystery Weirdo Wednesday entry. Thursday is Art House Theater Day and they're showing Cinema Paradiso and Tangerine.
If you can make it out to the Liberty Tree Mall in Danvers, they've got thriller Guns & Moses, which is apparently played pretty straight despite the title. The Dedham Community Theatre holds over French film Mr. Blake at Your Service.
I'll probably not be seeing any of those but will be seeing 15 or so other things up in Montreal.
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