The Shining International Cut Gets Its U.S. Premiere in NYC

The international version of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining makes its U.S. premiere this Sunday at the Museum of the Moving Image, followed by a screening of the theatrical cut. It's the rarest booking in a Halloween-heavy weekend of repertory cinema across New York.

The international cut is Kubrick's shorter edit of the 1980 film, made for release outside the United States. Its American theatrical debut at MoMI gives local audiences their first chance to see it on a big screen — and to compare it directly with the familiar version, since both are on the schedule.

What else is playing where?

Museum of the Moving Image pairs the Kubrick with horror staples: Tsai Ming-liang's Goodbye, Dragon Inn on Friday, plus The Exorcist and a print of Poltergeist in the venue's Handcrafted Horror series.

Roxy Cinema leans hard into the season. A print of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre plays Friday and Saturday. Saturday also brings Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker on 35mm (a format printed on actual film stock, prized by repertory houses) and Suspiria. Halloween shows both Friday and Saturday, while Bill Gunn's Ganja & Hess screens Sunday.

BAM opens a series on female possession, and Ken Russell's reconstructed The Devils continues its run. IFC Center screens the same restored 35mm print of The Devils late-night, alongside The Exorcist, Grey Gardens, and Ju-On: The Grudge. Mark Kermode, who led the film's reconstruction, has discussed the project in a published interview.

Where do the restorations and retrospectives land?

Film Forum begins a 4K restoration run of Alexander Payne's Citizen Ruth, with Pixar's Coco on Sunday.

Museum of Modern Art continues its Sergei Loznitsa retrospective and launches "Sundays with Steven" — a Steven Spielberg strand starting with 2005's War of the Worlds and the 1953 original on 35mm.

Anthology Film Archives keeps its Troma series going, with works by Hollis Frampton, Georges Franju, Jean Genet, and Ernie Gehr in the Essential Cinema program.

Nitehawk Prospect Park offers matinee-style horror: Godzilla and Halloween screen early on Saturday and Sunday.

Metrograph has the deepest bench, all on 35mm: Bram Stoker's Dracula, Beetlejuice, Carlos Saura's Peppermint Frappé and Cría Cuervos, Horror of Dracula, The Brides of Dracula, Chantal Akerman's News from Home, The Addams Family, Something Special, Midnight in Paris, All That Heaven Allows, and Far from Heaven. Four series continue there: Terence Fisher — Hammer's master smith, The Leaves are Falling, Trains: Local Routes, and a Darius Khondji retrospective.

What does this change for filmgoers?

For one weekend, the choice isn't between new releases and leftovers — it's between a lost Kubrick cut, a reconstructed Russell film running at two venues, and a dozen horror classics on film stock. The Shining international version's U.S. premiere is the headline, but the Deviils twin bookings show how a single restoration can now anchor multiple theaters' Halloween programming.