What I’m Seeing This Week: We will be out of town until Tuesday, but I’m going to try to catch 28 Years Later at Cinemapolis or the Regal Ithaca Mall after we return. I definitely want to see F1: The Movie at one of those theaters before it closes, too, but it probably isn’t going to happen before next Thursday.
Also in Theaters: The Phoenician Scheme, which continues its run at both Cinemapolis and the Regal, remains the best new movie on Ithaca screens that I’ve already seen for the second week in a row. I also enjoyed Ballerina and Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, which are both still playing the Regal. This week’s special events headliner is a screening of the cult classic The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert preceded by a drag performance by Tilia Cordata and other local performers at Cinemapolis on Sunday, while your best bets for repertory fare are the 30th anniversary screenings of Clueless at the Regal on Sunday and Monday. Which, wow that makes me feel old! Finally, I should maybe also mention that there are a ton of family-friendly options in local theaters right now, including Elio (Regal), How to Train Your Dragon (Cinemapolis & Regal), Lilo & Stitch (Regal), and two screenings of The Wild Robot at the Regal on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Home Video: Canyon Passage was one of the films I was most looking forward to seeing at this year’s Nitrate Picture Show because I didn’t know that Jacques Tourneur, director of my October Drink & a Movie selection The Leopard Man, made Technicolor westerns. As anyone who read the dispatch from that event I published here last week and/or the Letterboxd review I posted right after the screening no doubt gathered, it didn’t disappoint! While it unfortunately doesn’t appear to be streaming anywhere at present, I’m happy to report that the Blu-ray copy available from Kino Lorber looks great and is well worth the price of $16.59 + shipping.
Previous “Ithaca Film Journal” posts can be found here. A running list of all of my “Home Video” recommendations can be found here.
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