Where The Wild Things Are is…well, is there really anything more to say about this movie? All that’s left to do is go and see if the film stacks up to the buzz, and the trailer, and the posters, and the hopes and dreams of Maurice Sendak fans/hipsters/everyone else. I have a feeling it just might (even Armond liked it!).
The Elia Kazan retrospective at Film Forum continues this weekend, and boy is it full of psychosexual tension! Splendor in the Grass, that classic of teen angst starring Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty, plays Friday and Saturday, followed by Sunday and Monday showings of Kazan’s classic adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire.
The Maid, a prize winner at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, features a buzzed-about performance from Catalina Saavedra as the titular domestic worker whose complicated relationship with the family she works for comes to a head when new help arrives. The film opens this weekend at the Angelika Film Center.
New York, I Love You takes the many-directors-one-city formula from 2006’s omnibus Paris, Je T’aime and transplants it to the Big Apple. If nothing else, this collection of love letters includes a fairly diverse mix of behind-the-camera talent, from Fatih Akin and Mira Nair (yay!) to Brett Ratner and Natalie Portman (hmmm….).
Scary Movies 3, Film Society of Lincoln Center’s eclectic horror film retrospective, continues this weekend with screenings focusing on cult classics and lesser-known works. Highlights include Peter Jackson’s Dead-Alive, David Cronenberg’s The Brood, and more.
Go Uruguay! at BAM Cinématek offers a weekend crash course in the exciting new films and filmmakers coming out of the South American country. Producer Fernando Epstein will on hand at three of the screenings to introduce and/or discuss the films.
35 Shots of Rum, the latest from the brilliant Claire Denis, will be around for one more weekend at Film Forum (it’s scheduled to leave October 20). Don’t miss this lovely and nuanced slice-of-life about the complicated relationship between a Parisian father and daughter and the neighbors who enter their lives.
And for your Blaxploitation viewing pleasure, there's Black Dynamite.
