What I’m Seeing This Week: I’m going with Anemone at Cinemapolis. I’m also intrigued by Good Boy, which is at the Regal Ithaca Mall, and Kiss of the Spider Woman, which is at both aforementioned theaters, but we’ll be up north for most of the next week celebrating Thanksgiving with our Canadian relatives, so they’re going to have to wait.
Also in Theaters: One Battle After Another, which continues its run at both Cinemapolis and the Regal, remains my favorite new movie now playing Ithaca that I’ve already seen. I also enjoyed The Smashing Machine, which is sort of a remake of The Lusty Men transposed into a mixed martial arts setting, and Scarlett Johansson’s feature-length directorial debut Eleanor the Great, which struck me as the dramatic alter ego of last year’s best pure comedy Ricky Stanicky. Both are at Cinemapolis. This week’s special events highlights include a free screening of the film Santiago De Las Mujeres at Cinemapolis on Sunday and a free screening of RBG at Cornell Cinema tonight which also features free popcorn, as well as a Silent Movie Month in Ithaca presentation of The Flying Scotsman there tomorrow. Finally, your best bets for repertory fare include screenings of After Hours at Cornell Cinema tonight; Battle Royale at the Regal on Sunday, Monday, and Wednesday; and Prince of Darkness there on Wednesday.
Home Video: Speaking of Prince of Darkness, it’s one of the titles in a new Criterion Channel collection called “Directed by John Carpenter,” so if you aren’t free on Wednesday, you can watch it online! I wrote about Thom Bray’s character Etchinson on this blog in 2019.
Previous “Ithaca Film Journal” posts can be found here. A running list of all of my “Home Video” recommendations can be found here.
The Prodigal Cinephile 