- The new film by Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another, is opening all over the place, but The Coolidge Corner Theatre is one of four theaters in the world showing it in VistaVision - the other three are in New York City, Los Angeles, and London. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a former revolutionary who has mostly laid low to raise his daughter pulled back into action when an old nemesis captures her. It also plays at the Somerivlle (including 70mm film), Fresh Pond, Jordan's Furniture (Imax Friday-Sunday), West Newton, Boston Common (including Imax Laser & Dolby Cinema), Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport (including Dolby Atmos), South Bay (including Imax Xenon & Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (including Imax Laser & Dolby Cinema), Arsenal Yards (including CWX), and Chestnut Hill.
For rep at the Coolidge, it's the last weekend of Shout's restored Hong Kong classics at midnight, with all-timer Hard Boiled on Friday and another John Woo classic, Bullet in the Head on Saturday (Rocky Horror also plays Saturday at midnight). There's also M for the Big Screen Classic on Monday night, and they kick off an "Art House of Horror" series with Ingmar Bergman's Hour of the Wolf on Tuesday. There's also a "Panorma" show of Heightened Scrutiny with post-film discussion, plus Rope, with a pre-film seminar led by Kyle Stevens, on Thursday. - Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie is a spinoff of the TV show, with Gabby and her grandmother (Gloria Estefan) on a road trip that has them lose their special dollhouse with and have to retrieve it from a weirdo played by Kristen Wiig. It's at the Capitol, Fresh Pond, West Newton, Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, Assembly Row, Arsenal Yards, and Chestnut Hill.
Speaking of movies from TV shows, The Strangers: Chapter 2 must have originally been part of something originally planned as one, right? All three were shot at once, but this arrives a year after the first and is by itself longer than the movie they remake. Bizarre. It's playing at Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Causeway Street, the Seaport, South Bay, Assembly Row, and Chestnut Hill.
Eleanor the Great has Scarlett Johansson behind the camera and June Squibb in front of it, playing a nonagenarian returning to New York after the death of her best friend and roommate, and things get uncomfortable when she walks into a Holocaust survivors' group and does not back out when she realizes she's in the wrong place, to say the least. It's at the Coolidge, the Capitol, West Newton, Boston Common, Kendall Square, the Seaport, and South Bay.
Boston Common seems like a small opening for Dead of Winter, starring Emma Thompson as an ice fisher who stumbles upon a kidnapping far from anyone else who can help in northern Minnesota, after all the times I've seen the trailer. He playing a midwesterner looks weird but good. Also just at Boston Common is Bau: Artist at War, starring Emile Hirsch in the title role as a man trying to keep his spirits up at a concentration camp and directed by the guy that did the Reagan movie.
Dude Perfect: The Hero Tour, which is the latest iteration of a YouTube thing about doing basketball trick shots that made it to TV and then a live show, plays Boston Common.
The Sam Raimi Spider-Man movies get another theatrical re-release this weekend at Boston Common and Arsenal Yards - #1 on Friday, #2.1 on Saturday, #3 on Sunday. Mystery previews at Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, South Bay, and Assembly Row on Monday (note that the AMC theaters have an R-Rated "scream unseen" while Kendall's is PG-13). Satisfied, a documentary about Hamilton co-star Renée Elise Goldsberry, plays Boston Common Tuesday to Thursday, just after the play has left screens. The Life of Chuck plays Boston Common and Assembly Row Wednesday in Dolby Cinema; A Nightmare on Elm Street also plays Boston Common and Assembly Row on Wednesday. Boston Common and the Seaport have an Early Access show of Good Boy, a ghost story from a dog's point of view, on Wednesday. - Telugu-language action movie They Call Him OG opened on Wednesday at Apple Fresh Pond, Boston Common and Causeway Street. Friday brings Fresh Pond Hindi-language drama Homebound, Malayalam-language action-comedy Balti and thriller Karam (both through Sunday); Hindi-language Akshay Kumar courtroom comedy Jolly LLB 3 is held over. Marathi-language thriller Dashavatar has an encores Saturday & Sunday afternoons, and then Nepali-language comedy Hari Bahadur Ko Jutta opens Monday. Tamil-language musical drama Idly Kadai opens Tuesday, and period action prequel Kantara A Legend: Chapter 1 opens Wednesday with showtimes in Kannada and Telugu at Fresh Pond and Telugu at Causeway Street.
Chinese comedy The Adventure stars Jia Bing as a man who exchanges lives with his 18-year-old self (Wang Hao); it's playing limited matinees at Boston Common. World War II drama 731 also continues with scattered shows at Boston Common.
A 4K upgrade of Mamoru Hosoda's The Girl Who Leapt Through Time plays Boston Common subtitled Sunday & Tuesday and dubbed Monday. Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle continues at Fresh Pond, The Museum of Science (Omnimax Friday/Saturday), Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay, Assembly Row, Arsenal Yards, and Chestnut Hill.
K-Pop concert film Kygo: Back at the Bowl plays Boston Common Friday night (and hangs around at the Liberty Tree Mall through Monday). The two remastered BTS concerts, 2016's The Most Beautiful Moment in Life and 2017's The Wings Tour, play Sunday afternoon at Assembly Row (separate admissions), while 2019's Love Yourself: Speak Yourself plays Wednesday, and 2021's Muster Sowoozoo plays Thursday.
Vietnamese drama Face Off 8: Embrace of Light continues at South Bay. - Landmark Kendall Square opens Apple film All of You, starring Brett Goldstein and Imogen Poots as friends who drift apart after she takes a test that locates her soulmate. They're also keeping Netflix film Steve for another week and offering package deals for all the October and November Netflix theatrical releases.
Tuesday's anniversary screening is Clueless. - The Seaport Alamo plays Megadoc, Mike Figgis's making-of documentary for Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis, Friday/Sunday/Tuesday. The restored Re-Animator plays Friday/Saturday/Sunday/Tuesday, A Room with a View runs on Saturday, and there's a Van Helsing "movie party" on Monday.
- In addition to most showtimes of One Battle After Another at The Somerville Theatre being on the main screen in 70mm, they also open Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror, supported by the rare Friday midnight show of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, on 35mm film with Teseracte Players.
The Capitol Theatre continues its 100th anniversary celebration with Slingin' in the Rain Friday night and Shane on Saturday. And since it's the end of the month, there's a Disasterpiece Theatre tape-trade and viewing on Monday. - The Brattle Theatre starts the weekend with The Muppets Take Manhattan on 35mm for the Friday Film Matinee before diving in "Cinephile Heaven: Cinema Ritrovato on Tour", bringing a full slate of restorations that played the festival in Bologna to their screen. This year, that's 8½ (35mm Friday/Saturday), Don't Torture a Duckling (Friday), "Fleisher Fairy Tales" (Saturday), The Big Heat & Thief (Saturday), Pink Narcissus (Saturday), Christopher Strong (Sunday), The Sealed Soil (Sunday/Wednesday), Shanghai Express (Sunday), Four Nights of a Dreamer (Sunday), The Gold Rush & 7th Heaven (Monday), Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Monday), Lifeboat (free Elements of Cinema show Tuesday), Golden Eighties (Tuesday), Amores Perros (Thursday), and Carrie (Thursday).
- It's a 35mm Mikio Naruse weekend at The Harvard Film Archive, with Late Chrysanthemums Friday evening & Sunday afternoon, Wife Friday night & Sunday evening, Lightning Saturday evening, Repast Saturday night & Monday evening. Then, on Wednesday evening, they welcome Alice Diop and her new short film "Fragments for Venus". It's a free screening but first-come-first-serve, with the box office opening at 5:30pm for a 6pm show.
- CineFest Latino 2025 continues with shows in ArtsEmerson's Bright Screening Room (Friday/Saturday/Sunday) and the MFA (Friday/Saturday), and the Boston Public Library (Saturday), closing with Mistura at the Coolidge on Sunday.
- After hosting CineLatino Friday and Saturday, The Museum of Fine Arts plays Sugarcane, a focused and determined documentary about the Native boarding schools run by the Catholic Church and First Nations work to bring them to the world's attention.
- The Regent Theatre hosts the Manhattan Short Film festival Sunday and Wednesday; it's also at The Embassy in Waltham Friday to Sunday & Thursday. There's also an encore screening of Unfinished Business with filmmaker Michael Connolly on hand Tuesday at the Regent; again, it is not the Vince Vaughn film nor apparently the best-selling author Michael Connoly.
- Joe's Free Films shows Time After Time at MIT Open Space as part of the MIT Museum's "Time Travel on Screen" series (the MIT Museum will also be playing Cosmic Coda with pre-screening panel discussion; I liked it at IFFBoston although there was no entry for it on Letterboxd at the time). They also show a couple of programs at Boston University - a package of student films Friday night, and documentary featurette "Cathy & Harry" with both long-married pairs of subjects and filmmakers on hand for Q&A.
- The in-person portion of The Taiwan Film Festival of Boston is completed, but a virtual film festival will be running through 12 October (actually, it's more like passes will be on sale through then unless they hit their max, and then you've got 30 days from when you buy the pass).
- The Lexington Venue has Eleanor the Great and Downton Abbey all week (except Monday), plus late-ish shows of Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror Friday to Sunday. Documentary Between the Mountain and the Sky plays Thursday, including a discussion with aid worker Suzy Becker, who has worked with and documented subject Maggie Doyne.
The West Newton Cinema opens One Battle After Another (including a "Behind the Screen" show on Sunday), Eleanor the Great,Gabby's Dollhouse, and continues Kerouac's Road: The Beat of a Nation, The History of Sound, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, Downton Abbey, and The Baltimorons. John Cassevetes' Opening Night plays as a Staff Selection on Friday, while the 1916 Snow White plays with sisters Leslie & Barbara McMichael on harp & viola for Silent Movie Day on Monday.
Cinema Salem has Him and Downton Abbey Friday to Monday plus Hocus Pocus on those days plus Wednesday & Thursday, plus "Spelltacular Cabarets" with costumes encouraged from Friday to Sunday. There's also a Night Light show of Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters on Friday, a Murder, She Wrote Whodunnit Watch Party on Sunday, plus Modern Times and the Sherlock Jr./REM "Silents Synced" on for Silent Film Day on Monday. Stage Fright is the Wednesday Classic, with Weirdo Wednesdays on another screen.
Netflix movie The Lost Bus, with Paul Greengrass directing Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera trying to get a class out of a massive fire, plays at the Showcases in Woburn & Dedham. The Liberty Tree Mall in Danvers has BFFs with director Constantine Paraskevopoulos playing a man trying to keep tight with his best friend played by writer Adam Rifkin, and a whole bunch of bigger names in supporting parts.
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