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Our weekly look at what’s weird in theaters, on hot-off-the-presses DVDs and Blu-rays (and hot off the server VODs), and on more distant horizons…
Post-Christmas, the movie world tends to take a breather. Things pick up again in January with Sundance Film Festival. Until then, there will be little news and few new releases, but we’ll still keep you up to date.
NEW ON HOME VIDEO:
Monos (2019): Read our review. The enigmatic Colombian film about a purposeless group of teenage soldiers camped came to Blu-ray (no DVD release) with little fanfare. Buy Monos.
CERTIFIED WEIRD (AND OTHER) REPERTORY SCREENINGS:
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). We’ll only list irregularly scheduled one-time screenings of this audience-participation classic below. You can use this page to find a regular weekly screening near you.
- Boston, MA
- The Brattle
- Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), 12/27-28
- Song of the Sea (2014) with Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) (double feature), 12/28
- King Kong (1933) with Beauty and the Beast [La Belle et la Bete] (1946) (double feature), 12/29
- Museum of Fine Arts – A Serious Man (2009), 12/27, 29
- The Brattle
- Kitchener, ON
- The Apollo
- Howl’s Moving Castle (2004), 12/28-29
- Spirited Away (2001), 12/30
- The Apollo
- Los Angeles, CA
- The Egyptian – 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), 12/27
- The New Beverly – Brazil (1985), 12/30
- New York City, NY
- IFC Center
- Spirited Away (2001), 12/27-1/2
- Eraserhead (1977), 12/27-28
- The Metrograph – Brazil (1985), 12/27-28
- IFC Center
- Pittsburgh, PA
- Row House Cinema – Night of the Hunter (1955), 12/27-1/2
- Portland, OR
- Santa Ana, CA
- The Frida
- Black Christmas (1974), with Dial Code Santa Claus (1989) and Santa Claus (1959) (triple feature), 12/27
- The Frida
WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE: Next week, Giles Edwards takes another crack at unraveling what happened Under the Silver Lake (you can likely guess why). Plus, we reveal our Top 10 Weird Movies of 2019 (although you already know them if you ordered our 2019 Yearbook, like you should have). Finally, Pete Trbovich weighs in on the first of two Kurt Vonnegut adaptations by covering the forgotten-yet-reviled Slapstick of Another Kind (1982) as an appetizer for a tastier main course (which should appear the following week). Onward and weirdward!
What are you looking forward to? If you have any weird movie leads that we have overlooked, feel free to leave them in the COMMENTS section.
Under the Silver Lake sounds fascinating. Of course, I’ve *been* that So-Cali slacker in my previous beach-bum life before relocating to the Midwest, so I guess I identify. I always said the neverland of southern California is ripe for mythologizing, but never met anybody else interested in the idea so I gave up.
And now this comes out. I was only three decades early, no bigs.