What I’m Seeing This Week: We’re celebrating the end of the school year on Tuesday with hibachi at Sumo and Inside Out 2 at the Regal Ithaca Mall!
Also in Theaters: The best film now playing in Ithaca (at the Regal) that I’ve already seen is Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, which is a worthy prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road and quite possibly the best action movie we’re going to get this whole year. Of the new titles opening this week which I haven’t yet seen, the one I’m most interested in on the strength of the previews I’ve been watching at Cinemapolis this month and director Jeff Nichols’ previous work is The Bikeriders, which is both there and the Regal. Thelma, Fancy Dance, and Ghostlight (all of which open at Cinemapolis tonight or tomorrow) don’t necessarily *look* like my bag, but they each attracted positive reviews out of Sundance by critics I like, so I’d be happy to give all of them a chance, probably in that order. There’s not much happening locally on the repertory front, but South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut might scratch an itch for you that nothing from this year can.
Home Video: All this month I’ve been highlighting films by 2024 Cannes award winners in this space. I made up my mind to focus on Best Director honorees and am going to stick with this plan despite the fact that the pickings are lamentably slim for Miguel Gomes, who took home the top prize for Grand Tour. You can, however, watch his 2012 film Tabu on Mubi. Meanwhile, you can watch I Am Not a Witch, the first feature by co-winner (for On Becoming a Guinea Fowl) of the Un Certain Regard section’s Best Director award Rungano Nyoni, free with ads on Prime Video. Movies by The Damned director Roberto Minervini, who she shared this award with, are unfortunately as hard to come by as Gomes’s, but The Other Side is at least available on ad-supported free streaming video platform Tubi.
Previous “Ithaca Film Journal” posts can be found here.
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