One of the all-time great bits of counterprogramming going on in theaters this weekend!
- A year after breaking for intermission, Wicked: For Good, covering the second half of the play, hits most of the theaters and almost all the premium screens: It's at the Capitol, Fresh Pond (including 3D), the Museum of Science (Omnimax Friday/Saturday), Jordan's Furniture (Imax), West Newton, CinemaSalem, Boston Common (including Imax Laser 2D & Dolby Cinema 2D & XL 2D/3D & RealD 3D), Causeway Street (including RealD 3D), Landmark Kendall Square (including RealD 3D), the Seaport (including Dolby Atmos), South Bay (including Imax Xenon 2D & Dolby Cinema 2D & RealD 3D), Assembly Row (including Imax Laser 2D & Dolby Cinema 2D & RealD 3D), Arsenal Yards (including CWX), and Chestnut Hill.
For those who do not particularly care for nuanced takes on people previously presented as simple villains, there is Sisu: Road to Revenge, which moves the action to after World War II and has its relentless Finnish antihero (Jorma Tommila) looking to settle a score with the Soviet officer who killed his family (Stephen Lang). It is, supposedly, even more nuts than its satisfyingly violent predecessor. It plays Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Causeway Street, the Seaport, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
Also opening is Rental Family, which stars Brendan Fraser as a North American actor working in Japan who is starting to see roles dry up and signs up with an agency that has people fill gaps in social situations. First challenge: Posing as the absent father of a little girl who does not know he is not her real dad. It's at the Coolidge, the Capitol, Fresh Pond, West Newton, CinemaSalem, Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
There's also Rebuilding at Boston Common, starring Josh O'Connor as a farmer whose home has been erased by wildfires, bonding with others in similar situations, including his ex-wife and daughter. Writer/director Max Walker-Silverman also did the pretty darn good A Love Song.
- The Coolidge Corner Theatre gets a 35mm print of Jay Kelly, Noah Baumbach's latest which stars George Clooney as a movie star on a European press tour with the manager who has been the greatest constant in his life (Adam Sandler) in tow. Interesting combination there, with Laura Dern in the mix as well. It's also at the Lexington Venue and Kendall Square (eligible for the Netflix discount package).
The Coolidge's "M. Night after Midnight" series features Signs on Friday and Old on Saturday. The week's Coolidge Award Ethan Hawke film is Before Sunrise on Sunday afternoon; there's an encore of last month's Cinema Masala show of Diwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (it sold out!), and Tuesday features both a Noirvember show of The Big Heat with Alex Kittle leading discussion afterward and two presentations of It Was Just an Accident with famed Iranian director Jafar Pahani on hand (both currently listed as sold out).
- Apple Fresh Pond opens Hindi war drama 120 Bahadur, Hindi comedy Mastiii 4. Malayalam-language film Eko plays Saturday afternoon (and appears to have a more substantial release at the Liberty Tree Mall in Danvers) while Telugu-language drama Vilayath Budha plays Sunday afternoon. Held over is Hindi-language romantic comedy De De Pyaar De 2.
Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc continues at Boston Common, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
- The Brattle Theatre starts the weekend with a mystery title for the Friday Film matinee (a late 70s/early 80s obscurity from someone big in the 1970s, with the original release print kind of beat up).
They also have two new releases playing through Tuesday: Peter Hujar's Day (35mm), the new film from Ira Sachs, with Ben Whishaw as the title character, a photographer describing his day to a friend played by Rebecca Hall. Also opening is The Ice Tower, a French film that blurs the line between reality and fantasy as a teenage runaway hides out on the set of an adaptation of The Snow Queen and is transfixed by its imperious star. Clara Pacini and Marion Cotillard star.
There are also a couple one-offs: Explanation for Everything, playing Sunday afternoon, is a Hungarian film where a teenager's crush sets off a domino effect that becomes a national scandal; director Gábor Reisz will be on-hand for a Q&A. Monday evening, they have a free Elements of Cinema screening of The Crucible on 35mm film with post-film Q&A.
- The Seaport Alamo has a sold-out preview of Wake Up Dead Man with streamed Q&A on Sunday, so I guess I'm just reminding folks who already have their tickets. On Monday, they have a couple movies that are good and out there: Branded to Kill, one of Seijun Suzuki's best, plays at 7pm, and Reflection in a Dead Diamond, a tribute to 1960s spy-fi by Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani in their always-eye-popping style, plays at 10pm. There's also a matinee of Trains, Places & Automobiles on Tuesday.
- On top of opening Wicked: For Good, Rental Family, and Sentimental Value, The Capitol Theatre has Capitol 100 screenings of of Pulp Fiction (Friday), Titanic (Saturday), Legally Blonde (Sunday), Moneyball (Monday), and the series-capping Casablanca on Tuesday.
The Somerville Theatre continues playing Bugonia on 35mm film.
- The Harvard Film Archive has more "Columbia 101: The Rarities": Bitter Victory and The Walking Hills (35mm) on Friday, The Killer That Stalked New York and The Glass Wall (35mm) on Saturday; and Address Unknown (35mm) and Gunman's Walk on Sunday. They also have a rescheduled matinee of Hong Sang-soo's By the Stream on Saturday, plus a 16mm program of experimental films by Jordan Belson curated by Raymond Foye on Monday.
- The Museum of Science adds "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" to its 4D offerings starting Saturday (admission to the exhibit halls required), and brings back "Deep Sky" as part of the Omnimax rotation, also showing Wicked: For Good on Fridays and Saturdays into December.
- Joe's Free Films shows two presentations of Inundation District with director David Abel on-hand this weekend - one at 15 Necco Street in Fort Point Friday afternoon (I think it's the first time actually in the reclaimed area), and one at The Foundry in Cambridge on Sunday afternoon.
- Movies at MIT has Legally Blonde in 26-100 on Friday & Saturday; remember to give them a head's up if you're not part of the MIT community.
- The Lexington Venue is closed Monday but ope Tuesday with Wicked, Nuremberg (no show Sunday), and Jay Kelly (no show Sunday). Documentary The Nutcracker at Wethersfield, about New York Ballet dancers putting the show on outside during Covid quarantine, plays Saturday & Sunday mornings.
The West Newton Cinema opens Rental Family, Sentimental Value, and Wicked: For Good (double feature with the first on Saturday), continuing It Was Just an Accident, Nuremberg, and Blue Moon.
Cinema Salem has Wicked: For Good, Rental Family, Nuremberg, and Bugonia from Friday to Monday. 2021's Black Friday (with a ton of fun folks in the cast) plays Friday night with director Casey Tebo on hand for a Q&A; there's also an open-crafting matinee of Addams Family Values on Saturday.
Is there time to catch up with
Nuremberg and
Train Dreams, see
Jay Kelly on film, catch the two new ones at the Brattle, plus
Diwale Dulhania Le Jayenge,
Sisu 2,
Rebuildng, and maybe
Rental Family before the next big wave of new releases hits on Wednesday? Looks tight!
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