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
The great Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz is finally being given the retrospective treatment – and this is only the first part.
Museum of the Moving Image
“See It Big! Holiday Films” includes Desplechin‘s A Christmas Tale, The Shop Around the Corner, and It’s a Wonderful Life.
“Pushing the Envelope: A Decade of Documentary at the Cinema Eye Honors” continues.
Beginners screens on Sunday.
Metrograph
Friday: Bresson‘s The Devil, Probably and Rivette‘s Le Pont Du Nord.
Saturday: western triple-feature.
Sunday: Paris, Texas and the ultra-rare director’s cut of Jia Zhangke‘s Platform.
Museum of Modern Art
The Pedro Almodóvar retrospective has a packed weekend.
IFC Center
Lost Highway, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, and Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind have midnight showings.
A print of Yojimbo will screen before noon.
Drafthouse
Three Chaplin featurettes will screen on Sunday.
Film Forum
McCabe and Mrs. Miller and Daughters of the Dust play throughout the weekend; Raiders of the Lost Ark will screen on Sunday.
BAMcinématek
MGM musicals screen this weekend.
Nitehawk Cinema
Black Christmas has midnight showings; White Christmas and Home Alone screen at opposite ends of the day.