KICKING INTO THE WEEKEND WITH JACKIE CHAN, NINJA TURTLES AND MORE
Sunday at The Coolidge sees Jackie Chan’s blockbuster 80s action extravaganza’s Police Story 1 & 2 go back-to-back with all new 4K Restorations. Black History Month also begins this weekend with LA’s Egyptian Theatre exploring the Blaxploitation era in the guise of Blacula. The Turtles head up a live music event and screening at The Frida, which celebrates it’s fifth anniversary this month, and scroll to the bottom for the midnight selection too. As well as our picks for the weekend, be sure to check out what else each cinema has on offer.
THURSDAY FEB 7th
THE LEOPARD (1963 / DCP)
Thurs Feb 7th 7:30pm / Egyptian Theatre, Hollywood CA
Luchino Visconti’s masterpiece THE LEOPARD focuses on philosophical, melancholic Prince Salina (Burt Lancaster), a Sicilian nobleman determined to see his family survive the violent Garibaldi-led upheavals then occurring in his country. In Italian with English subtitles.
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DETOUR (1945 / DCP) + THE HITCH-HIKER (1953 / DCP)
Thurs Feb 7th 7:30pm / Castro Theatre, San Francisco CA
A double feature delving into darker depths of film noir, with New Restorations of the wonderfully pulp DETOUR and THE HITCH-HIKER, a nightmarish tale no studio wanted to touch, but now sits in The National Film Registry .
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POLICE STORY (1985 / 4K DCP)
POLICE STORY 2 (1988 / 4K DCP)
THE DREAMERS (2003 / 35mm Print)
Thurs Feb 7th 7pm / Roxy Cinema, New York City
Bernardo Bertolucci returned to the city of his Last Tango In Paris to weave the sumptuous tale of young American studying in Paris in 1968, who strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister, played gainst the background of the '68 Paris student riots. A star turn for Eva Green.
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THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE (1972 / DCP)
Thurs Feb 7th 3pm & 11pm / Metrograph, New York City
A who’s who of postwar Euro stars—including Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Stéphane Audran, and Bulle Ogier—convene for a swank dinner party that never occurs, their attempts to sit down to a meal thwarted by a series of increasingly absurdist interruptions: an inedible roast, a dead host, a police raid, a stranger arriving to tell the tale of his murderous youth... A drawing room comedy of unflappable upper-crust manners played according to dream logic, this is perhaps the most subversive film ever to win an Oscar—much to Buñuel’s horror!
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THE BLACK GODFATHER (1974 / 35mm Print)
Thurs Feb 7th Midnight / New Beverly Cinema, Los Angeles CA
He’s the godfather of the ghetto – he’s black, brutal, and beautiful. J.J. is his name, power is his game. But when the mafia brings heroin to the ‘hood, he’ll put together a super gang to take the mob apart. The war is on, the stakes are high, and it’s The Black Godfather against the white godfather in a showdown of the baddest.
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FRIDAY FEBRUARY 8th
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940 / 35mm Print)
Fri Feb 8th 8pm 7:30pm / Redford Theatre, Detroit MI
Timeless comedy classic! When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
Directed by George Cukor and starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart. Was remade as High Society.
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THE BIG CHILL (1975 / 35mm Print)
Fri Feb 8th 9pm / Quad Cinema, New York City
Among a robust ensemble of actors, Jeff Goldblum commenced his winning ’80s big-screen run with his snarking/charming turn as a People Magazine reporter who joins a reunion of now-thirtysomething college friends following the funeral of one of their own. Kasdan’s sleeper hit and Best Picture Academy Award nominee overflows with rue, ribaldry, reflectiveness, and a Motown-infused soundtrack.
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PERFORMANCE (1970 / 35mm Print)
Fri Feb 8th 7pm & 9:15pm / The Brattle, Cambridge MA
Nicolas Roeg started his directing career with this auspiciously audacious film. PERFORMANCE stars James Fox as a violent London gangster who holes up in the home of a reclusive rock star (Mick Jagger) and experiences a psychedelic-induced transformation.
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A DIRTY SHAME (2004 / DCP)
Fri Feb 8th 8pm / Hollywood Theatre, Portland OR
Directed by John Waters, A DIRTY SHAME casts the legendary Tracey Ullman in a very Divine role as the prudish Sylvia Stickles – who lives a quiet life running a convenience store with her husband (Chris Isaak) until a head injury turns her into an insatiable nymphomaniac! Sylvia soon finds herself leading a sexual revolution in Baltimore with truck driver Ray Ray (Johnny Knoxville) and fighting an ultra-conservative backlash.
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DEAD MAN (1995 / DCP)
Fri Feb 8th 8pm / Filmhouse, Edinburgh Scotland
William Blake (Johnny Depp) moves to the West to find a future, but finds trouble instead. With bounty hunters on his tracks, the walking Dead Man is lead on his spiritual journey to escape by an outcast native called Nobody. Hauntingly Directed by Jim Jarmusch, with a rough, stunning score by Neil Young,
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THE LATE SHOW (1977 / 35mm Print) + HARRY & TONTO (1974 / DCP)
Fri Feb 8th 7:05pm / Film Forum, New York City
New York’s Film Forum continues it’s exhaustive collection of 1970s comedy classics, from an era when film makers changed all the rules.
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SATURDAY FEBRUARY 9th
BATMAN (1966 / DCP)
Sat Feb 9th 11:30am / North Park Theatre, Buffalo NY
Holy Technicolor! In 1966, Batman made the leap from the campy TV series on the small screen to the even more spectacular camp of the big screen. It’s a rip roaring adventure full of some devilish humor and non stop POW! and WHAM! A true joy to see with an audience. Tickets only $5!
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EARTH GIRLS ARE EASY (1988 / 35mm Print)
Sat Feb 9th 7:15pm / Quad Cinema, New York City
Reteaming with ace cinematographer Oliver Stapleton, Temple again enlivened the movie musical, with loopy romance ensuing once furry aliens Jeff Goldblum, Jim Carrey, and Damon Wayans crash-land in Southern California and are given manscaping makeovers by beauticians Julie Brown (who co-scripted, adapting her previously released title song) and Geena Davis (whom Goldblum married mid-production). The score is by music titan Nile Rodgers.
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CRASH (1996 / 35mm Print)
Sat Feb 9th 9pm / Metrograph, New York City
No, not that CRASH that oddly won the Best Picture Oscar.. In this “masterful minimalist adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s 1973 neo-futurist novel about sex and car crashes,” per critic Jonathan Rosenbaum, David Cronenberg’s Crash is a concert of flesh and steel, a cautionary tale of machine age eroticism that doubles as an enticing invitation, with Spader as a film producer who, after a head-on smash-up, finds himself drawn into an underground society of men and women who fetishize auto collisions. The movie that gives a whole new meaning to “sex drive.”
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MOVIE PARTY: MOULIN ROUGE (2001 / DCP)
Sun Feb 3rd 11:30am / Austin Alamo Drafthouses Mueller 4:30pm, Ritz 3:35pm, Lakeline 4pm & Village 9:40pm, Austin TX
Baz Lurmann’s extravagant music is all about love, but until you've seen the movie, and sung the songs, and learned that lesson in a movie theater with 200 other heart-swept people, you'll never really know what it's like to be in love. Your heart will swell! Your lungs will burst! Your brain will explode with rainbows! Props will be distributed for interaction and much more!
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MIDNIGHT MOVIES
PULP FICTION (1994 / Quentin Tarantino’s Personal 35mm Print!)
Fri Feb 8th / New Beverly Cinema
From the archives of Director Quentin Tarantino, watch his game changing, and utterly quotable, 1994 art house crime caper via his personal 35mm Print.
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CRASH (1996 / 35mm Print)
Fri Feb 8th & Sat Feb 9th / Nitehawk Cinema, Brooklyn NY
David Cronenberg’s cult classic also screens at Brooklyn’s Nitehawk, and this time in 35mm.
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DISCO GODFATHER (1979 / 35mm Print)
Sat Feb 9th / New Beverly Cinema
Put your weight on it! Rudy Ray Moore is the Disco Godfather, an ex-cop and nightclub owner of the raddest, baddest discotheque in town. When the scourge of angel dust threatens his community, he’ll have to become a martial arts wrecking machine, and partner with Carol Speed (The Mack, Abby), to rid the streets of “the whack.” Packed with unforgettable dance sequences, killer tunes, and hallucinogenic interludes, Disco Godfather can’t be beat!
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THE DESCENT (2005 / 35mm Print)
Fri Feb 8th / Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline MA
One year after a tragic accident, six girlfriends meet in a remote part of the Appalachians for their annual extreme outdoor adventure, in this case the exploration of a cave hidden deep in the woods. Far below the surface of the earth, disaster strikes, and there's no way out. But there is something else lurking under the earth. One of the most terrifying movies of the last twenty years.
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MANDY (2018 / DCP)
Fri Feb 8th / Syndicated, Brooklyn NY
In the Pacific Northwest in 1983, outsiders Red Miller and Mandy Bloom lead a loving and peaceful existence. When their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed by a cult led by the sadistic Jeremiah Sand, Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey filled with bloody vengeance and laced with deadly fire. A stunning, atmospheric 80s horror throwback with Nicolas Cage at his manic best.
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NEKROMANTIK 2 (1991 / Digital)
Fri Feb 8th / Spectacle Theatre, Brooklyn NY
NEKROMANTIK 2 begins right where the first film disgustingly left off, but it’s not long before the film finds its own sickeningly romantic direction. Sequel to the bonkers original, that proved quite a hit with German ounks.
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BIG (1988 / DCP), SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991 / DCP), SUSPIRIA (1977 / DCP), HANNIBAL (2001 / 35mm Print), POLICE STORY (1985 / 4K DCP).
Fri Feb 8th & Sat Feb 9th / IFC Center, New York City
**Note Police Story starts at 11:40pm // All films screen as single movie sessions.
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