These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include Fritz Lang’s 1927 silent science fiction masterpiece “Metropolis” with live musical accompaniment, spooky doings for Space Week, Michael Cimino’s 1978 Best Picture winner “The Deer Hunter,” dual Gatsbys and more.
Some might call this a manipulative stoking of fears, and they’d be right, but the charge is forgotten as Alex Garland stages a phenomenally choreographed siege of Washington, D.C., that’s as heartbreaking as it is breathtaking.
These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include Wicked Queer fest fare at The Brattle (which also has “Muppet Madness” and a 2024 Space Film Festival), very different Somerville Theatre noirs and poetic works by Margaret Tait at the Harvard Film Archive.
In theaters now are Alice Rohrwacher’s “La Chimera,” Dev Patel’s debut “Monkey Man,” Luc Besson‘s unusual “DogMan” and Thea Sharrock’s comedy inspired by true events, “Wicked Little Letters.”
These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include The Wicked Queer Film Festival at The Brattle, works at the roots of modern horror in Somerville, “Taxi Driver” in Kendall Square and Best International Feature Oscar nominee “Traces” at Fresh Pond.