Sergei Loznitsa Retrospective and a New Hellraiser 4K Anchor NYC's Film Weekend

A Sergei Loznitsa retrospective opens this weekend at the Museum of Modern Art, launching a crowded frame of repertory cinema across New York that also brings a new 4K restoration of Hellraiser to the IFC Center. The schedule, compiled by The Film Stage, spans at least nine venues and includes series debuts for Troma at Anthology Film Archives and for Terence Fisher at Metrograph.

At MoMA, the Ukrainian director's retrospective begins this weekend. Loznitsa, known for his archival documentaries and features, receives the city's most prominent platform of the week.

IFC Center pairs its Hellraiser restoration with continued runs of two restored prints. Ken Russell's reconstructed The Devils screens on restored 35mm — The Film Stage has published an interview with Mark Kermode, who said of the project's resurrection, "I can't quite believe it's happening." The Exorcist, Grey Gardens, Ju-On: The Grudge and Redline fill the late-night slots.

BAM also continues the reconstructed The Devils, giving Russell's once-censored film a two-venue footprint in the same weekend.

What opens, what continues?

Film Forum begins its celebration of William Greaves' centennial. The documentary pioneer, born 100 years ago, receives a full series; Tim Burton's Corpse Bride screens there on Sunday.

Anthology Film Archives launches a Troma series devoted to the independent studio's catalog of cult horror and comedy.

Roxy Cinema organizes its weekend around two strands. The Surreal Nightmares of Screaming Mad George brings a print of Society on Friday, plus The Guyver and a 35mm print of Freaked on Saturday. Live-scored editions of Nosferatu and Vampyr play Friday. Saturday also brings City Dudes and a 4K restoration of No Picnic; a shorts program, On the Relentless Destruction of Beauty, with housing films and a Q&A, screens Sunday.

Museum of the Moving Image leans into horror. Persona shows Friday. The Exorcist and a print of Bram Stoker's Dracula appear in the Handcrafted Horror program. Vampire's Kiss screens on 35mm Saturday, and Richard Attenborough's Magic plays on 35mm Sunday.

Nitehawk Prospect Park offers matinees of Ginger Snaps on both Saturday and Sunday.

Metrograph runs the widest slate. Eight titles screen on 35mm:

• All That Heaven Allows
• Peppermint Frappé
• Brief Encounter
• Strangers on a Train
• Something Special
• The Addams Family
• Girl Interrupted
• The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice

Virgina opens in a restoration. The Terence Fisher series, titled Hammer's Master Smith, begins, while The Leaves are Falling, Trains: Local Routes, Classical Cinema and a Darius Khondji series all continue.

What does this change for moviegoers?

It consolidates an unusual concentration of archival programming in a single weekend. Three series openings — Loznitsa at MoMA, Troma at Anthology, Fisher at Metrograph — arrive alongside the Greaves centennial at Film Forum, giving audiences four entry points to curated film history before the weekend ends.

The simultaneous Devils runs at BAM and IFC Center mark the widest New York exposure for Kermode's reconstruction to date, and the Hellraiser 4K gives Clive Barker's 1987 film its sharpest commercial presentation in years.