Weekly Film Agenda: Spring into Film

In a world where there's nothing to do but watch movies.
In a city full of theaters, museums, and libraries.
One moviegoer who can be in three places at once.

Tuesday 3/21
Open Screen
Like an open mic, but for filmmakers. Bring your movie and the Coolidge Corner Theatre will show anything that's under ten minutes long and screen it all in order of submission until they run out of time.
Coolidge Corner Theatre
7:30 pm, $7.50

Why We Fight
Eugene Jarecki's Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning documentary attempts to answer the title's question with historical and interview footage, ranging from President Eisenhower to Richard Perle.
Somerville Theatre
3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30 pm (through Thursday), $4-$6.50
Why We Fight: web site | IMDB

Wednesday 3/22
The Pillow Book
Calligraphy on skin, overlapping images, crazily furnished apartments, superimposed text, an wildly international soundtrack, a nude Vivian Wu, and an equally nude Ewan MacGregor. Don't watch it on a small screen.
Peter Greenaway: web site
The Pillow Book: IMDB

Thursday 3/23
Double Indemnity
Is there anything hotter than Barbara Stanwyck? In Billy Wilder's 1944 noir classic, insurance salesman Fred MacMurray commits murder for her. You'd do the same.
Boston Public Library, South Boston branch
6 pm, free
Double Indemnity: IMDB | Ebert | trailer

The Sound Your Eyes Can Follow
Jon Whitney projects his massive and eclectic collection of music videos (the playlists include Nick Cave, Salt-N-Pepa, Antony & the Johnsons, Goldfrapp, His Name Is Alive, Joanna Newsom, and that "one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve" song with the pinballs from Sesame Street) on a big screen, and loud.
River Gods
9 pm
The Sound Your Eyes Can Follow: web site

Friday 3/24
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
An open-ended inside-out film about making a film about a couple arguing in Central Park. Director William Greaves who will be appearing in person at Friday's screening, which also includes Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2 1/2, shot thirty-five years later with the same actors in the same location.
Harvard Film Archive
7 pm, $8
William Greaves: web site
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: IMDB | Pseudocumentary series at the HFA

Isamu Noguchi: Stones and Paper
Hiro Narita's documentary follows Japanese-American sculptor Noguchi from his apprenticeship to Brancusi in Paris, to New York, to Japan, where he worked with lanterns and stones, as seen on last year's black and white postage stamps.
Institute of Contemporary Art
8 pm, $7
Isamu Noguchi: Stones and Paper: IMDB

Saturday 3/25
Blackmail
The Alloy Orchestra, whom no less than Roger Ebert has called "the best in the world at accompanying silent films," plays original music for Hitchcock's Blackmail, with Mission of Burma's Roger Miller on the synthesizer.
Somerville Theatre
8 pm, $18
Alloy Orchestra: web site
Blackmail: IMDB

Tromeo & Juliet
The Boston Underground Film Festival brings director Lloyd Kaufman to the Brattle to host a tenth-anniversary midnight screening of Troma's irreverent adaptation of Shakespeare's play. Features Lemmy of Motorhead.
Brattle Theatre
Midnight, $7
Tromeo & Juliet: IMDB | Troma

Weekly Film Agenda contributed by C. Fernsebner