What I’m Seeing This Week: I’m going with A Different Man at Cinemapolis.
Also in Theaters: I opted for “Mets magic” over the movies last week, so my top new film recommendations remain Megalopolis and The Wild Robot, both of which are at the Regal Ithaca Mall. There are a whopping *three* movies playing at Cornell Cinema that I would have gone to this week were they playing at different times: Pepe, which screens tonight at 7pm; Wings, which is there tomorrow at 6pm; and the screening of L’Inferno at Cornell’s Sage Chapel next Wednesday accompanied by a live score by Montopolis. So it goes! Other new films I’m still hoping to see on the big screen include Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, My Old Ass and The Substance, all of which are at both Cinemapolis and the Regal (although Beetlejuice Beetlejuice closes at Cinemapolis today). Finally, in addition to the Cornell Cinema titles mentioned above, your best bets for repertory fare are Carrie, which is at Cinemapolis on Tuesday, and The Nightmare Before Christmas, which opens at the Regal tomorrow.
Home Video: October is a month when many cinephiles’ fancy frighteningly turn to thoughts of the horror genre. Meanwhile, our family is heading north this weekend to celebrate our first Thanksgiving of the year with My Loving Wife’s family in Ontario. This makes the “Directed by David Cronenberg” collection now available on the Criterion Channel a doubly seasonally appropriate selection! The Fly, which is probably the Canadian auteur’s most famous work, is only available until 10/31, so you may want to start there. If you somehow only have time for one movie, though, I’d go with Rabid, which features an utterly terrifying depiction of Montreal under martial law during what is for all intents an purposes a zombie apocalypse and a lead performance by Marilyn Chambers that will reward your patience in the final reel when we suddenly find her wrestling with an impossible dilemma far beyond anything her male counterparts have been presented with. The Brood and Scanners are also well worth a look, but the early semi-silent featurettes Stereo and Crimes of the Future are for completists and superfans only.
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