What I’m Seeing This Week: My Dune: Part Two date night with my loving wife remains a week away, so I’m going with The Peasants at Cinemapolis.
Also in Theaters: You can still see all of this year’s Oscar-nominated short films at Cinemapolis all week even after their annual fundraising gala, which returns for the first time in four years, on Sunday. The best new feature-length movie playing there or anywhere in Ithaca that I’ve seen is The Taste of Things. Director Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days, which is also at Cinemapolis, is worth checking out as well, but his fellow 2023 Cannes Film Festival entry Anselm, which is screening at Cornell Cinema in 3D on Sunday, looks like it might be more interesting. The week’s best repertory options are the entertaining “ramen western” Tampopo, which is at Cornell Cinema tonight; The Iron Giant, one of my favorite animated films of the past 25 years, which is at the Regal Ithaca Mall on Saturday; and the gorgeous Irish animated film Song of the Sea, which is at Cornell Cinema on Sunday. Last but not least, two Cornell alums, director Jason Goldman and colorist Greg Reese, are presenting their documentary Rowdy Girl at Cornell Cinema tomorrow. More information about this screening can be found here.
Home Video: Earlier this week I published my top ten list for Movie Year 2023. The following titles from it are available on Blu-ray/DVD; streaming for free or via a major subscription service; or available to Cornell University students, staff, and faculty on one of the platforms that the Library subscribes to:
- Mambar Pierrette = available on DVD from Icarus Films
- A Thousand and One = available on Blu-ray/DVD and Prime Video
- 20 Days in Mariupol = available on two of Cornell’s streaming video platforms, Academic Video Online and Kanopy
- Poison = available on Netflix
- All of Us Strangers = available on Hulu
- Menus-Plaisirs–Les Troisgros = available on PBS for free until April 20
- The Killer = available on Netflix
- Ferrari = available on Blu-ray/DVD
Previous “Ithaca Film Journal” posts can be found here.
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