The Minnellis, Bill Gunn and The Devils: NYC Repertory Weekend Guide

Museum of the Moving Image opens its series "The Minnellis" this weekend with Cabaret and three films by Vincente Minnelli on 35mm. The Astoria venue packs the rest of its calendar: "James Gray's New York" screens The French Connection, a Kubrick series continues with Dr. Strangelove on 35mm, and Lynne Littman's Testament shows on 35mm this Saturday.

Brooklyn Academy of Music takes a reflexive turn. The series "Filming Filmmakers" presents documentaries about Akira Kurosawa, Werner Herzog, Jean-Luc Godard and Jacques Rivette, made by Chris Marker, Les Blank and Claire Denis. In short: three celebrated documentarians turning their cameras on four masters of world cinema.

What plays on 35mm this weekend?

• Cabaret plus three Vincente Minnelli titles, Museum of the Moving Image
• Dr. Strangelove, Museum of the Moving Image
• Testament, Saturday, with director Lynne Littman in person
• The Landlord, Roxy Cinema, in a Bill Gunn series
• The Insider, Paris Theater, Saturday
• Slither, Shutter Island, Somewhere In the Night and Woman on the Beach, Metrograph

The Roxy Cinema spotlights Bill Gunn with Losing Ground and a print of The Landlord. A 16mm cartoon program billed as "raunchy, sexy, risqué" plays Sunday, with a Q&A attached.

Museum of Modern Art continues its Sergei Loznitsa retrospective. The strand "Sundays with Steven" pairs the 1961 and 2021 versions of West Side Story — sixty years between Robert Wise's original and Steven Spielberg's remake on a single calendar page.

Film Forum holds a 4K restoration of Zhang Yimou's Raise the Red Lantern and adds The Court Jester on Sunday.

Anthology Film Archives launches a series on the collaborations of Mathieu Amalric and John Zorn — the French actor-director paired with the downtown composer. Essential Cinema programming brings films by D.W. Griffith and Ken Jacobs.

Ken Russell's reconstructed The Devils screens at two venues. IFC Center continues its run; Nitehawk Prospect Park plays it early on Saturday and Sunday, alongside a print of the dubbed Castle in the Sky.

IFC Center rounds out late shows with The Reflecting Skin, The Wild Bunch and a print of Cloverfield.

Metrograph runs the deepest slate of the weekend. Four titles screen on 35mm — Slither, Shutter Island, Somewhere In the Night, Woman on the Beach. The series "Spotlight on Virginie Efira" begins, while five continuing programs fill the margins: Pulse, a Sho Miyake retrospective, "Neuro-Noir", "All Happy Families Are Alike" and "Trains: Local Routes".

The takeaway: at least a dozen titles screen on film stock this weekend, and the rarest of them — a reconstructed Devils and a Bill Gunn series — carry the strongest claim on a ticket.