NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.
Film Forum
The Wages of Fear plays in a 4K restoration, while Labyrinth screens on Sunday.
IFC Center
A 4K restoration of Carrie plays daily; Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Ichi the Killer, Threads, and Alien show late.
Roxy Cinema
Friday brings Bob Saget and Norm MacDonald’s seminal Dirty Work on 35mm, while City Dudes returns on Saturday; Adrian Lyne’s Unfaithful shows on a print Sunday.
Museum of Modern Art
A celebration of Robert Frank’s centennial continues.
Museum of the Moving Image
The Frank Oz series has its final weekend.
Metrograph
Three… Extremes, F for Fake, Practical Magic, Man on Wire, A Terra-Cotta Warrior, and Ozu’s Good Morning show on 35mm; Story By Lillian Lee and Absconded Art begin while The World Is a Stage, My Crazy Uncle (or Aunt), Insomnia, and Crush the Strong, Help the Weak continue.
Film Forum
The Wages of Fear plays in a 4K restoration, while Labyrinth screens on Sunday.
IFC Center
A 4K restoration of Carrie plays daily; Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Ichi the Killer, Threads, and Alien show late.
Roxy Cinema
Friday brings Bob Saget and Norm MacDonald’s seminal Dirty Work on 35mm, while City Dudes returns on Saturday; Adrian Lyne’s Unfaithful shows on a print Sunday.
Museum of Modern Art
A celebration of Robert Frank’s centennial continues.
Museum of the Moving Image
The Frank Oz series has its final weekend.
Metrograph
Three… Extremes, F for Fake, Practical Magic, Man on Wire, A Terra-Cotta Warrior, and Ozu’s Good Morning show on 35mm; Story By Lillian Lee and Absconded Art begin while The World Is a Stage, My Crazy Uncle (or Aunt), Insomnia, and Crush the Strong, Help the Weak continue.
- 11/29/2024
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Although the film is included in many lists as one of the all time classics of world cinema, following its Palme d'Or at the 1993 Cannes, the book the movie is based on remains largely unknown, which is a shame, considering the quality of the novel is by no means less that of the film. Furthermore, and as usual in the case of adaptations, the story and the context of the latter are much richer than of the movie.
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After a prologue dealing with stage plays and prostitution both literally and as metaphors, the story moves to 1929, when Douzi, a boy with feminine features, is left by his prostitute mother to an all-boys Peking opera troupe supervised by Master Guan. Douzi is lost and shocked by the events but eventually befriends fellow trouper Shitou, who takes him under his wing.
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After a prologue dealing with stage plays and prostitution both literally and as metaphors, the story moves to 1929, when Douzi, a boy with feminine features, is left by his prostitute mother to an all-boys Peking opera troupe supervised by Master Guan. Douzi is lost and shocked by the events but eventually befriends fellow trouper Shitou, who takes him under his wing.
- 3/4/2024
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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