NYC Weekend Watch: Tsui Hark, Bush-Era Cinema, The Tree of Life & More

by · The Film Stage

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.

Museum of Modern Art
A Yuen Woo-ping series continues, featuring two Once Upon a Time in China films by Tsui Hark, Wong Kar-wai’s Hong Kong cut of The Grandmaster, and a print of Kung Fu Hustle; Long Live the Underground begins.

Film Forum
Unzipped begins in a 4K restoration; Funny Face shows on Sunday.

Paris Theater
Big & Loud brings The Tree of Life on 35mm, plus The Sound of Music and 2001 on 70mm.

BAM
A series on Bush-era cinema includes prints of War of the Worlds, Redacted, and 25th Hour.

Roxy Cinema
A retrospective of 2006 continues with a 35mm print of The Departed on Saturday; a print of Crash shows on Friday; Fat Girl screens on Sunday.

Anthology Film Archives
A Toney W. Merritt series has begun.

Museum of the Moving Image
A print of Dead Ringers shows on Friday while The Birds plays on Saturday.

IFC Center
9 to 5 screens daily; Dog Day Afternoon, Angel’s Egg, and Paris Is Burning play late.

Nitehawk Prospect Park
Juice and a print of Forbidden Planet screen on Saturday and Sunday.

Metrograph
The Wedding Banquet, The Warriors, Time and Tide, Paprika, The Little Mermaid, Alien: Resurrection, The Ninth Gate, and Seven show on 35mm; Sakamoto on Screen and Salomé Lamas start while Histories of Home, A Cyberpunk Canon, Classical Cinema, Darius Khondji, and Tsui Hark continue.