Since any New York City cinephile has a nearly suffocating wealth of theatrical options, we figured it’d be best to compile some of the more worthwhile repertory showings into one handy list. Displayed below are a few of the city’s most reliable theaters and links to screenings of their weekend offerings — films you’re not likely to see in a theater again anytime soon, and many of which are, also, on 35mm. If you have a chance to attend any of these, we’re of the mind that it’s time extremely well-spent.
Film Society of Lincoln Center
If you can’t make some of the bigger NYFF screenings, don’t fret: many of the directors’ finest, earlier films are playing as part of “NYFF: Opening Act.” On Friday (9/22), Claire Denis‘ Beau Travail and Hong Sang-soo‘s Night and Day screen, while Saturday (9/23) brings Lav Diaz‘s Hesus the Revolutionary, Jia Zhangke‘s Useless, and Kyoshi Kurosawa‘s Pulse. Sunday (9/22) is marked by Abdellatif Kechiche‘s Games of Love and Chance, James Gray‘s Little Odessa, the Coen brothers‘ Miller’s Crossing, and Claude Lanzmann‘s Sobibor, Oct. 14, 1943, 4 p.m. Most screen on film.
Museum of the Moving Image
“Howard Hawks,” again, with the confounding, enveloping The Big Sleep playing on Friday evening (9/22). On Saturday (9/23), a gangster double-feature of The Criminal Code and Scarface; this Sunday (9/24), Twentieth Century and The Thing from Another World — not officially a Hawks title, but one with a strange place in his relative filmography — are on-deck.
A fascinating counterpoint to one of those titles, as directed by Brian De Palma, will be screening on 35mm this Sunday. You know the one.
Film Forum
Stanley Kubrick‘s first great film, The Killing, will play for the weekend.
On 35mm, the 1974 Camera d’Or winner Northern Lights is also scheduled to screen.
This Sunday morning (9/22), David Copperfield appears on film.
Nitehawk Cinema
David Cronenberg‘s The Dead Zone will play under “Find the Time” and “September Brunch & Midnite” this Friday and Saturday (9/22, 9/23), during which time one can also see 12 Monkeys — part of “The Works – Terry Gilliam,” but not “Find the Time,” strangely. To complement the latter title, Chris Marker‘s La Jetée and Ben Rivers‘ Slow Action play in a double feature.
IFC Center
While the Paul Newman-led Hud plays every morning, 12 hours later will bring Fight Club, Jurassic Park, and Rolling Thunder, the lattermost on 35mm.
BAMCinématek
“Skateboarding is Not a Crime” rolls through its last weekend, with the Friday (9/22) showing being Serbian drama Tilva Roš. On Saturday (9/23), Greece is represented through Wasted Youth, while America gets its unfortunate depiction in Larry Clark‘s Kids. Gus Van Sant‘s Paranoid Park is around Sunday (9/24), as well as Lords of Dogtown.
Not skateboarding-related is Charlotte’s Web, screening Saturday morning.
What are your weekend watching plans?