Friday May 31
Days of Heaven (Egyptian, 4:30 p.m., FREE!)–Terrence Malick’s breathtaking 1978 elegy to the American frontier.
David Hockney: Secret Knowledge (Broadway Performance Hall, 4:30 p.m.)–The famous painter argues, controversially, that the old masters used crude projectors to help them paint.
Cinemania (Broadway Performance Hall, 7:00 p.m.)–Documentary about pitiful losers who let movies soak up their lives. Hey, wait a second!
Girls Can’t Swim (Broadway Performance Hall, 9:30 p.m.)–A brilliantly creepy character study of the hormonal imbalance in the young and restless.
Cockettes (Harvard Exit, 9:30 p.m.)–Documentary about the rise and fall of the late ’60s radical gay midnight movie burlesque company from San Francisco.
Saturday June 1
Sunshine State (Egyptian, 6:30 p.m.)–The latest from John Sayles.
I Will Not Be Sad in This World (Broadway Performance Hall, 4:00 p.m.)–Documentary of a 90-year-old survivor of the Ottoman genocide against the Turkish Armenians in WWI.
Sunday June 2
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Egyptian, 1:45 p.m., FREE!)–Altman’s miserable masterpiece of a Warren Beatty Western.
Inner Tour (Broadway Performance Hall, 4:00 p.m.)–Documentary of homeless Palestinians on a bus trip through Israel. (Also Tues June 4.)
Afghan Alphabet (Broadway Performance Hall, 6:30 p.m.)–Makhmalbaf’s examination of Mujahedeen education. (Also Wed June 5.)
Lawless Heart (Harvard Exit, 6:30 p.m.)–Intelligent comedy-drama about interconnected lives on the Isle of Man. (Also Wed Jun 5.)
Biggie & Tupac (Pacific Place, 4:00 p.m.)–Nick Broomfield documentary about the murdered rival rap stars.
Monday June 3
Merci Pour le Chocolat (Egyptian, 7:00 p.m.)–The latest from French suspense-maître Claude Chabrol.
Tuesday June 4
Biggie & Tupac (Egyptian, 9:30 p.m.)–See Sunday June 2.
I Will Not Be Sad in This World (Broadway Performance Hall, 4:30 p.m.)–See Saturday June 1.
Super-8 Stories by Emir Kusturica (Harvard Exit, 4:30 p.m.)–Political/musical chronicle of late ’70s Eastern European punk rockers the No Smoking Orchestra. Features Kusturica and Joe Strummer.
