NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.
Roxy Cinema
Fidelio, our four-film program with Chapo Trap House’s Movie Mindset, closes with Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer and Clint Eastwood’s Absolute Power on 35mm, both introduced by myself, Will Menaker, and Hesse Deni this Friday, and with discounted $12 tickets by mentioning our program at the box office.
Museum of the Moving Image
70mm prints of 2001, Lawrence of Arabia, Tenet, and Far and Away screen; Sherlock Jr. plays on Saturday and Sunday.
Film at Lincoln Center
A new restoration of Shinji Sōmai’s Moving continues.
Film Forum
Restorations of Seven Samurai and Army of Shadows continue playing.
Anthology Film Archives
Films by James N. Kienitz Wilkins, Clio Barnard, and more screen in “Verbatim.”
BAM
Devil in a Blue Dress, Coming to America, a 35mm print of Sylvia Scarlett, and more screen in “Passing You By.”
Museum of Modern Art
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre plays.
IFC Center
The Conversation opens in a 50th-anniversary restoration; “Defamed to Acclaimed” brings films by the Wachowskis, Lynch, Scorsese, Cimino and more; The Time Masters and Amadeus play daily; Bakshi’s Lord of the Rings, Heavy Traffic, Friday the 13th, and Taxi Driver (on 35mm) play late.
Paris Theater
A retrospective of 1994 films includes 35mm showings of The Hudsucker Proxy, Natural Born Killers, Serial Mom, and more.
Metrograph
Shinji Sōmai’s Moving plays in a new restoration while Daisies and Decision to Leave show on 35mm; Passages, Ties That Bind, In Pursuit of Shadows, Summer at Sea, Twisted Sister, and Under the Pavement continue.