Ridley Scott's Alien at the IFC Centre 323 6th ave (at 3rd street), (212)924-7771, Friday & Saturday at midnight.
Jean-Luc Godard's Band of Outsiders at Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Between 6th Ave x Varick Street, ph: (212) 727-8110). This film is the most exciting collaboration between Jean-Luc Godard and his wife Anna Karina. Showing Fri/Sat at 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, and 9:30.
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing starring Jennifer Jones at the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center (West 65th Street, between Broadway & Amsterdam Aves on the upper level), Saturday May 24th at 2:30 pm. This film tells the story of a married but separated American reporter (played by William Holden), who falls in love with a Eurasian doctor originally from Mainland China (played by Jennifer Jones), only to encounter prejudice from her family and from Hong Kong society.
Orson Welles' Touch of Evil at the Museum of Modern Art. (11 West 53 Street, between Fifth Ave x Sixth Ave, ph: (212) 708-9400). This reconstructed version of the film is based on the legendarily eloquent fifty-eight-page memo that Welles wrote to Universal Studio executives after they barred him from the cutting room during post-production. Gone are the title credits that obscured the exquisitely choreographed opening shot, as Russell Metty'scrane follows newlyweds Charlton Hestonand Janet Leigh along the pulsating, garishly lit streets of a U.S.-Mexican border town, until a car explosion suddenly brings evil and corruption into their lives. Also starring Marlene Dietrich. Playing Saturday, May 24, 2008, 8:00 p.m., Theater 1, T1 and Sunday, May 25, 2008, 5:00 p.m., Theater 1, T1.
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