NYC Weekend Watch: Pelechian, Wajda, The Matrix & More
Pelechian at Lincoln Center, a Wajda centenary series at Film Forum, The Matrix prints at MoMA and six 35mm titles at Metrograph shape this weekend's repertory slate.
Programme
- Film at Lincoln Center's NYFF Revivals presents an Artavazd Pelechian program and Visconti's L'innocente.
- Film Forum begins an Andrzej Wajda centenary series; Unzipped continues in a 4K restoration.
- MoMA continues its Yuen Woo-ping series with prints of The Matrix and The Matrix Reloaded and Wong Kar-wai's Hong Kong cut of The Grandmaster.
New York's repertory houses offer a weekend that runs from Artavazd Pelechian at Lincoln Center to Andrzej Wajda at Film Forum, with The Matrix on big-screen prints at the Museum of Modern Art.
Film at Lincoln Center
NYFF Revivals brings an Artavazd Pelechian program alongside Luchino Visconti's L'innocente. The Pelechian program gives audiences a rare chance to see the Armenian master of distance-editing on a large screen, within the festival's revivals strand.
Museum of Modern Art
MoMA's Yuen Woo-ping series continues, featuring two films by the choreographer-director himself, plus Wong Kar-wai's Hong Kong cut of The Grandmaster. Prints of The Matrix and The Matrix Reloaded also screen — both films that showcase Yuen's fight choreography on 35mm-scale presentation. The series Long Live the Underground continues as well.
Film Forum
Film Forum opens an Andrzej Wajda series marking the Polish director's centenary. Unzipped continues in a 4K restoration, and Lotte Reiniger's silent landmark The Adventures of Prince Achmed shows on Sunday.
Paris Theater
Alan J. Pakula's Klute and Elia Kazan's East of Eden both screen on 35mm.
Roxy Cinema
Gregg Araki's Kaboom plays Saturday.
Anthology Film Archives
The series Avatars of the Whore features films by Mira Nair, Cheryl Dunye, and Angie Chen.
Museum of the Moving Image
David Lynch's Inland Empire screens Friday. Saturday brings Herk Harvey's Carnival of Souls and a 3-D presentation of The Creature from the Black Lagoon.
IFC Center
Late shows fill the calendar: Dog Day Afternoon, Angel's Egg, Spring Breakers, and The Exorcist.
Nitehawk Prospect Park
The Monster Squad screens early on Saturday and Sunday.
Metrograph
Six titles show on 35mm: Satoshi Kon's Paprika, Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, Danny Boyle's The Beach, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Alien: Resurrection, François Truffaut's Small Change, and the Coen brothers' O Brother, Where Art Thou? Two new series begin — Composed by Jang Young Gyu and Trains: Local Routes — while Histories of Home, A Cyberpunk Canon, Classical Cinema, and the Darius Khondji retrospective continue.
For viewers weighing options, the weekend's strongest pull may be the overlap of centenary homage and restorative rarities: Wajda at Film Forum and Pelechian at Lincoln Center screen alongside the kind of archival prints — Reiniger's Prince Achmed, 3-D Creature — that repertory programming exists to preserve.
Original: filmlinc.org
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