NYC Weekend Preview: Béla Tarr, Meiko Kaji, Kiyoshi Kurosawa & More

      NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly summary of repertory screenings.

      Film Society of Lincoln Center kicks off a tribute to Béla Tarr with a focus on 35mm films.

      Japan Society welcomes the iconic Meiko Kaji to New York for the first time in over 40 years, showcasing 35mm prints of Lady Snowblood, Female Prisoner Scorpion, and more.

      IFC Center presents a double feature of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Serpent’s Path (newly restored in 4K) and Chime; Best in Show: The Films of Catherine O’Hara includes After Hours, Beetlejuice, and three films by Christopher Guest; late-night screenings include 2001, Showgirls, Naked Lunch, and Suspiria.

      Anthology Film Archives showcases Revelations of the Middle Ages, featuring works by Paul Verhoeven, John Boorman, Pasolini, and others; Metaphysics of the Pratfall pairs films (many in 35mm) by Jean-Luc Godard and Jerry Lewis.

      Museum of Modern Art screens films by Béla Tarr, Hou Hsiao-hsien, John McTiernan, and Brian De Palma on 35mm as part of A View from the Vaults: The 1980s.

      Nitehawk Cinema features Stand By Me and a print of Pieces of April in early screenings.

      Film Forum continues a significant retrospective on Agnès Varda, alongside Satyajit Ray’s Days and Nights in the Forest; My Ratatouille is set for Sunday.

      Museum of the Moving Image presents a comprehensive retrospective of 2001 in cinema, with 35mm prints of Trouble Every Day and Pulse, plus screenings of The Others and Millennium Mambo.

      Roxy Cinema screens Frederick Wiseman’s Central Park, The Fly, and a 16mm print of The Loved One.

      Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Queering the Canon series includes Waiting for Guffman shown in 35mm.

      Paris Theater features films by Thomas Vinterberg, Lars von Trier, Polanski, Żuławski, and others in Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen; Bullitt will be shown on 35mm this Sunday.

      Metrograph screens Inherent Vice, Zodiac, Ghost Dog, The Seventh Seal, Fantasia, Pinocchio, Point Blank, Once Upon a Night, and Red Sorghum on 35mm; Empress Li and Allegro Non Tropo begin while After the Case, a Boris Barnet retrospective, the Juliette Binoche series, and What Price Hollywood continue.