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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…
Trailers of new release movies are generally available at the official site links.
NEW ON HOME VIDEO:
Je t’aime moi non plus (1976): A truck stop waitress (Jane Birkin) falls in love with a gay garbage truck driver (Joe Dallesandro) and convinces him to sleep with her—but there’s a catch. Directed by musician Serge Gainsbourg, who put out an album of the same title. Out on Blu-ray or DVD from Kino Classics with a commentary track and interviews. Buy Je t’aime moi non plus.
Teorema (1968): Read the Canonically Weird review! Pier Paolo Pasolini‘s chilly, ambiguous fable about a mysterious stranger who sleeps with, and destroys, a bourgeois family is now in the Criterion Collection, your choice of Blu-ray or DVD. Buy Teorema.
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.
- Chandler, AZ
- Alamo Drafthouse – Wild at Heart (1990) (2/27)
- Gilbert, AZ
- Houston, TX
- The River Oaks – Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) (2/21-22) (midnights)
- Los Angeles, CA
- The Aero – Come and See (1985) (2/22)
- The Egyptian – Kwaidan (1964) (2/21)
- Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN
- Alamo Drafthouse – Bubba Ho-Tep (2002) (2/25)
- New Braunfels, TX
- New York City, NY
- IFC Center
- Blue Velvet (1986) (2/21-22) (midnights)
- Paprika (2006) (2/21-22) (midnights)
- The Exterminating Angel [El àngel exterminador] (1962) (2/22-23)
- The Metrograph
- The Face of Another (1966) (2/21-22)
- Mulholland Drive (2001) (2/22)
- The Nitehawk (Williamsburg) – Wild at Heart (1990) (2/21-22) (midnights)
- IFC Center
- San Francisco, CA
- The Roxie – Inherent Vice (2014), with The Big Lebowski (1998) (double feature) (2/23)
- Tempe, AZ
- Toronto, ON
- The Royal – Wild at Heart (1990) (2/22)
- Tuscon, AZ
- The Loft – Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) (2/21-23)
- Yonkers, NY
- Alamo Drafthouse – Bubba Ho-Tep (2002) (2/22)
WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE: Next week, Giles Edwards gets to The Point (1971) (the reader-suggested TV feature cartoon dreamt up by Harry Nillson during an acid trip) and G. Smalley looks into the Disappearance at Clifton Hill (2020). We’re thinking of throwing a new contest/poll in there as well; check in for that. 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.