Upcoming movies in the next week

Wednesday

Schrader’s Exorcism
Wednesday and Thursday at the Mayfair is this documentary of Paul Schrader’s extreme difficulty of bringing his Exorcist prequel to the screen (or not bringing it, as it were). Followed each night by one of Schrader’s earlier writing efforts.




Taxi Driver
Directed by Scorsese, written by Paul Schrader, this classic has Robert De Niro driving around New York City looking to clean up the filth. Violently, if necessary.




Thursday

Raging Bull
Also directed by Scorsese and written by Schrader and starring De Niro, the story of boxer Jake LeMotta.




Friday

Duplicity
From the director of Michael Clayton, this movie has Julia Roberts and Clive Owen playing rival spies who team up to con two multinationals out of millions of dollars.




I Love You, Man
The rise of the bromance film, this one has Paul Rudd recruiting Jason Segel to be his Best Man.




Knowing
Nicholas Cage plays a father whose son finds a piece of paper in a time capsule that contaisn the dates and body counts of every major world disaster in the last 50 years … plus a whole bunch more. Cage must therefore save the world.


Labyrinth
For March break, the Mayfair is playing the classic, with creatures by Jim Henson … except David Bowie, Jim Henson couldn’t have thought of him.




Riki-Oh
From IMDB: A young man with superhuman strength is incarcerated at a prison run by corrupt officials and seeks to use his martial arts to clean up the system.
At the Mayfair.




Saturday

This Saturday, at the Mayfair, two action movies directed by Tony Scott and starring Tom Cruise. One in a jet, one in a racecar. The same movie.

Top Gun




Days of Thunder




Sunday

Examined Life
Did you skip 1st year philosophy too much? Fear not.
At the Bytowne




2001: A Space Odyssey
One of my favorite films of all time, Stanley Kubrick’s space epic plays Sunday at the Mayfair.




Monday

Amores Perros
Alejandro Innaritu’s debut hyperlink film plays Monday night at the Bytowne.




Tuesday

The International (Beynelmilel)
About Turkish musicians during the 1980s. Part of the Turkish Film Festival at the Bytowne.




The Usual Suspects
In a double with Valkyrie is Bryan Singer’s crime classic where nothing and nobody is what it seems.