What I’m Seeing This Week: My loving wife and I are excited to finally see The Holdovers, either on a date night at Cinemapolis while visiting relatives watch our kids or at the Regal Ithaca Mall while they see Trolls Band Together or Wish in an adjacent theater.
Also in Theaters: Killers of the Flower Moon is *probably* still the best new movie now playing in Ithaca that I’ve seen, but Priscilla made it a lot closer than I expected. From the opening close-up of one of its lead actress’s (here Cailee Spaeny, who is outstanding) body parts to her final plunge into the great wide open, it’s very much in conversation with Lost in Translation, which like many people I’ve always regarded as my favorite film directed by Sofia Coppola. The big surprise is that I might actually prefer Priscilla! What I haven’t figured out yet is how much of this is attributable to the movie itself, and how much of it is the fact that Coppola and I are both twenty years older than we were in 2003 and I’m now a father of two girls. Either way: recommended! As is Elf, my favorite Christmas movie of all time, which has a 20th anniversary screening at the Regal Ithaca Mall on Sunday.
Home Video: As I mentioned last week, the first movie my family watches after Thanksgiving is traditionally Miracle on 34th Street, so that’s got to be my recommendation. We’ll be viewing our trusty old 20th Century Fox Special Edition DVD release, but it can also be streamed on Disney+, Hulu, and Prime Video with a subscription and most other major commercial platforms for a rental fee.
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