WEEKEND UPDATE: THE GAME CHANGING WORLD OF ROBERT ZEMECKIS, LATE NIGHT FAVES & MORE.

Robert Zemeckis position as a tireless cinematic game changer remains quite underrated, so a well earned career retrospective is amongst the weekend lineup of classics on the big screen.

All Weekend: One the first major retrospectives of such a tireless artist, and America’s most under-sung crowd-pleasers, an inimitable and forever-boundary pusher. CRACKERJACK COMPASS: THE WORKS OF ROBERT ZEMECKIS screens at The Music Box Theatre, Chicago including the Back to The Future trilogy, Death Becomes Her, Roger Rabbit and so much more to experience. More info HERE.

Ongoing: Nope, not the Johnny Depp film. This is Claire Denis' stunningly realized directorial debut, a staggering and vivid portrait of memory within the confines of post-colonialism. CHOCOLAT (1988 / New 4K Restoration) screens at The Frida Cinema, Santa Ana. More info HERE.

All Weekend: Explore the melding of two minds with David Cronenberg's DEAD RINGERS (1988), a frighteningly essential continuation of Cronenberg's cinematic synthesis of the human body and mind. Screens at The Frida Cinema, Santa Ana. More info HERE.

Ongoing: Scorsese’s profanity-packed blowtorch boxing biopic of the middleweight legend has consistently topped critics’ critics’ Best of the Decade lists. RAGING BULL (1980) screens at Film Forum, New York City. More info HERE.

Friday 4/14th 7:30pm: Ridiculously underrated, THE FRIGHTENERS (1996) was Peter Jackson’s first international feature on the recommendation of Robert Zemeckis. Michael J Fox is fantastic, with the trend of Jackson pushing the envelope for VFX. Screens  at Secret Movie Club, Los Angeles. More info HERE.

Fri 4/14th 9:30pm: Received well by critics but ignored by audiences, the entire VFX industry owes a high debt to SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW (2004) with it being amongst the first to be created almost entirely digitally (aside from the actors). Worth giving a second chance. Screens at Braindead Studio, Los Angeles. More info HERE.

Sat 4/15th 3:30pm: Douglas Fairbanks is the swashbuckling defender of the people in THE MARK OF ZORRO (1920) screening as part of the TOSDV Silent Film Festival at The Colonial Theatre Pennsylvania with live music accompaniment! More info HERE.

Fri 4/14th 8:15pm: Vincent Gallo is a penniless preacher who spends his days reciting Bible verses. One day he meets a young jobless girl who wanders on Hollywood Boulevard. And an impossible love story begins JOHNNY 316 (1998) at Film Noir Cinema and Video, Brooklyn NY. More info HERE.

Fri 4/14th 11pm: Come up to the lab, and see what’s on the slab! The original midnight cult movie musical spectacular (and record holder of the longest ever theatrical run) ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) screens with the shadow cast LDOD live at The Plaza Theatre, Atlanta. More info HERE.

Sat 4/15th 9pm: A film that is (unfortunately) as relevant an indictment as it was 47 years ago. Sidney Lumet’s NETWORK (1976) is the maddening circus of a film that lowers the viewer into the snake pit of journalists, broadcasters, news executives and ratings hungry CEOs. Screens at The Kino, Rotterdam. More info HERE.

Sat 4/15th 6:30pm: An epic, action-packed romance set against the ill-fated maiden voyage of the "unsinkable" Titanic and the film that made Leo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet mega stars. TITANIC (1997) screens at The Hollywood Theatre, Portland. More info HERE.

Sat 4/15th 7pm: Find out “whodunit” this special screening of the 1985 comedy classic, deftly mixing wild slapstick, hilarious wordplay and a gaggle of first-rate comedic performances. CLUE (1985) screens with live shadow cast performance by Heavy Petting at The Loft Cinema, Arizona. More info HERE.

Sat 4/15th Midnight: The bloody reimagining of the Sam Raimi classic may have divided fans but has been reappraised in recent years and rightfully celebrated for its visceral approach. EVIL DEAD (2013) at The Belcourt Theatre, Nashville. More info HERE.

Sat 4/15th 7:30pm: A Double Feature of future society that didn’t turn out at utopian as we would have hoped, with Tom Cruise on the run for a future murder he may or may not commit in MINORITY REPORT (2002 /35mm Print) followed by Jonathan Pryce stuck in a world of crushing technology and bureaucracy in BRAZIL (1985 / 35mm Print) at The Astor Theatre, Melbourne Australia. More info HERE.

Sun 4/16th 1pm: One of the most revered comedies of the silent era, this film finds a hapless Southern railroad engineer (Buster Keaton) facing off against Union soldiers during the American Civil War. THE GENERAL (1926) screens with Live Score at Thornbury Picture House, Melbourne Australia. More info HERE.

Sat 4/15th 7:30pm: One of the most thrilling movie epics of all time, SEVEN SAMURAI (1954) tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire the eponymous warriors to protect them from invading bandits. Screens in 35mm at The Aero Theater x American Cinematheque Los Angeles. More info HERE.

Sun 4/16th 1:45pm: A visually gorgeous adaptation of the classic family novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett where a young girl is sent to live in her uncle's Victorian manor. With her cousin, she finds a garden that has fallen into disrepair. THE SECRET GARDEN (1993) screens at The Paris Theatre, New York City. More info HERE.

Sun 4/16th 6:30pm: A Double Feature in which the camera is turned on to Hollywood itself with legendary classics SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (1952 / 35mm Print) + IT HAPPENED IN HOLLYWOOD (1937 / 35mm Print) at The New Beverly Cinema, Los Angeles. More info HERE.

Sun 4/16th 1:15pm: In the midst of a summer heat wave, a New Yorker left to continue work in Manhattan is left pondering infidelity as he dreams of his beautiful new neighbor (Marilyn Monroe) and fantasy vs reality. Billy Wilder’s THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH (1955) screens at The Prince Charles Cinema, London, with the opening scene shot at New York City’s stunning Penn Station that was criminally demolished in 1963. More info HERE.

Sat 4/15th 8pm: An overnight BONG JOON-HO MARATHON screens at The Prince Charles Cinema, London with the influential Korean Director’s unique cinema visions including THE HOST, MOTHER and PARASITE amongst the lineup. More info HERE.

Sun 4/16th 1:30pm: Having helped establish the contemporary cinematic language of wuxia cinema with his earlier films, legendary Chinese filmmaker King Hu reached new heights with the visionary epic A TOUCH OF ZEN (1971). Screens with a New 4K Restoration at QAGOMA, Queensland Australia (Free Screening). More info HERE.