- Black Phone 2 returns the original cast, as the kidnap victim from the first is drawn into a bigger mystery. It's at Fresh Pond, Boston Common (including Dolby Cinema), CinemaSalem, Causeway Street, the Seaport (including Dolby Atmos), South Bay (including Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (including Dolby Cinema), Arsenal Yards, and Chestnut Hill.
The new film from Luca Guadagnino, After the Hunt, stars Julia Roberts as an academic who is shaken when a student (Ayo Ebediri) makes accusations against a colleague (Andrew Garfield). It's at the Coolidge (35mm for most showtimes), the Capitol, Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
Good Fortune features Aziz Ansari as a down-on-his-luck gig worker who swaps lives with a tech bro played by Seth Rogen thanks to a well-meaning but naive guardian angel (Keanu Reeves). Nice cast including Sandra Oh and Keke Palmer; pity about Ansari doing that Saudi comedy festival. The film plays the Somerville Theatre, Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay, Assembly Row, Arsenal Yards, and Chestnut Hill.
Truth & Treason follows idealistic teenagers in Nazi Germany attempting to expose the regime's lies. It's atFresh Pond, Boston Common and Assembly Row.
Grow, about a kid who grows very large pumpkins, is a week-long Fathom release at Boston Common and Causeway Street. French animated film Falcon Express is dubbed into English and released as Pets on a Train, and if one of the pets trying to help a racoon stop a runaway stop a runaway train is not voiced by Samuel L. Jackson and tired of snakes, I'll be very disappointed; you know he'd take the paycheck. It's at Fresh Pond.
The disturbingly rapid booking of films celebrating Diane Katon are Something's Gotta Give and Annie Hall at Boston Common..
There's a mystery horror movie preview Monday at Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, and Assembly Row; documentary Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost, directed by son Ben, also plays Boston Common on Monday K-Pop concert/doc TWICE: One in a Mill10n plays Boston Common, Causeway Street, and Assembly Row Monday (except Assembly)Tuesday/Thursday; Concert film Mitski: The Land plays Boston Common, Kendall Square, and the Seaport Wednesday & Thursday.. In re-releases, The Last Dragon plays Boston Common Sunday/Monday/Wednesday; St. Elmo's Fire plays Boston Common Sunday/Tuesday/Wednesday; The Corpse Bride is at Arsenal Yards Monday/Tuesday; Misery is at Arsenal Yards Tuesday/Wednesday; Scream '96 plays Boston Common and Assembly Row Wednesday; Nightmare Before Christmas also plays Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, Assembly Row (all in RealD 3D) on Wednesday. Some of the Thursday night shows of Regretting You at Assembly Row and Chestnut Hill are billed as "A Night of No Regrets" with a streamed Q&A. - Not only do they have One Battle After Another and After the Hunt on film, but The Coolidge Corner Theatre also opens If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, which features Rose Byrne as a woman spiralling under pressure from an ailing child and absent husband (it's also at Boston Common). Also opening at the Coolidge and Boston Common is Urchin, directed by Harris Dickinson and starring Frank Dillane as a young man living on the margins of London.
Spooky Coolidge midnights this weekend are the original A Nightmare on Elm Street on Friday and Scream on Saturday; while Art House of Horror shows include Wener Herzog's Nosferatu the Vampyre on Sunday afternoon, Under the Skin Tuesday evening, and both The Devil's Backbone and Child's Play 2 on Thursday, the latter in 35mm with co-star Christine Elise. Sunday morning's Geothe-Institut German film is Köln 75, following the chaotic process of staging a concert that became one of the best-selling live albums in history. Monday's Science on Screen show (marked sold out) is Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution, with Sharp as one of several speakers. - Landmark Kendall Square opened Ballad of a Small Player, with Colin Farrell, Tilda Swinton, and Fala Chen on Wednesday. Horror Retro Replays include Psycho on Sunday afternoon and Monday evening, plus Sleepy Hollow on Tuesday, and The Birds on Wednesday.
- Happy Diwali! Apple Fresh Pond and the plexes have a bunch of new movies for the season. Opening early were Telugu-language comedy Mithra Mandali (also at Causeway Street) and Tamil-language comedy Dude (also at Causeway Street, both with Telugu-language shows); joining them this weekend are Telugu-language romance Telusu Kada (also at Causeway Street), Telugu-language drama K-Ramp (ALSO Causeway Street), Tamil-language sports movie Bison: Kaalamaadan, and Tamil-language gang flick Diesel (through Sunday). Opening Tuesday at Fresh Pond and Boston Common is Hindi-language vampire comedy/adventure Thamma. Kantara A Legend: Chapter 1 continues at Causeway Street (showtimes in Kannada) and Boston Common continues Hindi-language romantic comedy Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari.
Korean animated fantasy adventure Exorcism Chronicles: The Beginning opens at Boston Common and South Bay.
Pakistani horror film Deemak opens at Boston Common.
Chinese drama Sound of Silence, about a lawyer who takes a case against Deaf defendants despite his own family background, plays South Bay.
I swear Spirited Away already played as part of Ghibli Fest this year, but maybe it's just a thing that's always going on now. At any rate, the film plays Boston Common and Assembly Row Saturday/Sunday/Wednesday (dubbed) and subtitled Monday/Tuesday. For more contemporary anime, Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A Lonely Dragon Wants to Be Loved plays Boston Common, the Seaport, and Assembly Row Monday. There's also a Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc preview for Crunchyroll subscribers at Boston Common (Imax Laser), Assembly Row (Imax Laser) on Wednesday before it opens wide over the weekend. Two other anime continue: The 4K remaster of Satoshi Kon's Perfect Blue at Boston Common and Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle at Boston Common, South Bay, and Assembly Row. - The Brattle Theatre has Hal Hartley's newest film, Where to Land, through Wednesday; it stars Bill Sage as a writer who applies for a job as a cemetery custodian, which leads to everyone he knows thinking that he is dying and rushing to celebrate his life. They also have Sinners for the late show Friday to Monday.
On Saturday afternoon, they host the premiere of Massachusetts Avenue: Life Along Cambridge's Main Artery, with director Federico Muchnik in person. Sunday has the RPM Fest presentation of "Jean Sousa: Today is Sunday", with the artist in person. Andrew Bujalski visits on Monday with There There, a film made during the height of the pandemic with each cast member shot separately and their performances later edited together. Alice HOffman visits on Thursday to present a 35mm print of Practical Magic, including a new deluxe edition of her original novel. - The Seaport Alamo picks up A House of Dynamite, which makes me wonder if Netflix brass are annoyed that people are seeing it in theaters. They also have The Corpse Bride Friday to Monday, Rocky Horror on Friday (it's at Boston Common with Full Body as usual on Saturday), Fright Night '85 Saturday/Sunday/Tuesday; Creepshow (regular show Saturday/party show Sunday). There's also a preview of Bugonia with streamed Q&A Sunday.
- The Capitol Theatre has From Russia with Love on Friday, and West Side Story on Saturday, as part of Capitol 100. On Thursday, they open The Arlington International Film Festival with a shorts program and German documentary Tourist.
The Somerville Theatre plays a new 70mm print of Close Encounters of the Third Kind Friday to Sunday, with Hungarian comedy Gone Running also playing Sunday. They also kick off their Halloween programming with a new 4K restoration of The Fog Monday & Tuesday and Mad Monster Party? on Wednesday. Note that this means only certain shows of One Battle After Another are in 70mm, although they plan to continue using the large print whenever they can. - The Museum of Science has Tron: Ares in the Omni theater Friday & Saturday for the next few weeks.
- The Museum of Fine Arts is the main hub for the The Boston Palestine Film Festival, opening with a sold-out show of Thank You for Banking with Us! on Friday and showing shorts programs on Saturday & Sunday.. The festival also has stops at the Coolidge for Passing Dreams on Saturday, the Brattle for documentary Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk on Tuesday, and MassArt for "7ajar", a program of short films produced by the eponymous collective.
- The Boston Asian American Film Festival is at ArtsEmerson's Paramount Center through Sunday, including a Saturday encore presentation for Friday's sold-out centerpiece film Love, Chinatown.
- The Harvard Film Archive has re-opened and is doing their best to reschedule everything canceled during the previous two weekends. They have two programs curated by Marta Mateus - Program IV on Friday evening is anchored by Weird Woman and includes shorts "Les magiciens de Wanzerbé" and "A Corner in Wheat", while Sunday evening's Program V has short "Revolução" preceding The Law of the Land. Friday night also features Mikio Naruse silent Apart from You, preceded by his "Flunky, Work Hard!", while two more play Monday (No Blood Relation and Street without End), all on 35mm and accompanied by Robert Humphreville. Saturday afternoon has a free-with-Harvard ID double feature of WHere Is the Friend's House & The 400 Blows the latter (plus a Chuck Jones cartoon) on 35mm film. The "Ultimate Cut" of Caligula screens on 35mm film Saturday night, with Leslie Morris introducing it as part of "Gore Vidal on Film". Sunday afternoon offers a free double feature of Steve McQueen's Small Axe films Alex Wheatle and Education.
- Movies at MIT has Your Name in 26-100 on Friday & Saturday; and would appreciate a head's up for attendees who aren't part of the MIT community.
- Definitely getting cold now, but Joe's Free Films shows Twilight playing on the Rose Kennedy Greenway Friday evening, "It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown" in Cambridge's Raymond Park on Saturday, and Pride & Prejudice at MIT Open Space on Thursday.
- The Lexington Venue is open all week but Mondaywith A House of Dynamite, Fairyland and Good Boy Friday to SUnday & Thursday. There's also a free Sunday morning show of The Changeling.
The West Newton Cinema opens Orwell: 2+2=5 and Fairyland, keeping A House of Dynamite, Kiss of the Spider Woman, One Battle After Another,*Eleanor the Great,*Gabby's Dollhouse, and *Downton Abbey. There's Andrzej Zulawski's Cosmos on Friday, two documentaries s on Sunday - a "Best of Fests" presentation of Remaining Native and The Last Twins with post-film discussion - and both King Vidor's The Crowd and the Universal Monsters Frankenstein on Thursday.
Cinema Salem opens Black Phone 2 (Friday/Saturday/Sunday/Wednesday/Thursday), and continues to offer all the Halloween rep, with The Exorcist (Friday/Saturday/Sunday), Carpenter's Halloween (Friday/Saturday), Hocus Pocus (Friday/Saturday/Sunday/Wednesday/Thursday), Psycho on Sunday (with a Whodunnit? Show set on the Psycho lot the same afternoon), The Lost Boys (Wednesday/Thursday), and Universal Monsters: The Mummy Friday/Thursday, DraculaSaturday/Wednesday, Creature from the Black Lagoon Saturday/Thursday, Bride of Frankenstein Sunday, The Wolf Man Sunday/Thursday. There's also a special event on Monday ("Haxan: The Witch as Muse") which combines live music, the silent film, and a witch-inspired perfume. House of Wax is the Wednesday Classic (with an encore Thursday), plus a Werido Wednesday show.
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