What I’m Seeing This Week: I’m heading to the family cottage in Ontario tomorrow, so there are no theatrical screenings in my immediate future.
Also in Theaters: It looks like Twisters, which continues its run at the Regal Ithaca Mall, will reign as my favorite new movie in local theaters that I’ve already seen for at least three weeks! I also recommend Inside Out 2, which is there as well. If I *was* able to see something this week, it would probably be one of the films opening at Cinemapolis: Kneecap, Widow Clicquot, or Touch in that order. Other noteworthy new movies include Trap, director M. Night Shyamalan’s latest, and Harold and the Purple Crayon, which is based on the beloved children’s book. Your best bet for repertory fare is legendary Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo, which is at the Regal in a dubbed version on Sunday and Tuesday and with subtitles on Saturday, Monday, and Wednesday. Finally, the tenth edition of Movies in the Park kicks off tomorrow with a free screening of Wonka at Stewart Park.
Home Video: As reported by the Ithaca Voice last month, Fancy Dance is the first widely-distributed film to prominently feature the Gayogohó:nǫˀ or Cayuga language spoken by members of the Seneca-Cayuga Nation. It is now available for streaming on Apple TV+ and is definitely worth checking out if you missed it during its run at Cinemapolis. I liked Lily Gladstone’s performance as inveterate con artist Jax, a scene in which she plays a siren while her young niece Roki (Isabel Deroy-Olson, who is also very good) steals a mark’s car keys, and the movie’s treatment of Roki’s first period. I wasn’t as keen on the ending, but this is nonetheless a very solid debut feature by Ithaca resident Erica Tremblay.
Previous “Ithaca Film Journal” posts can be found here.
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