Weekly Film Agenda: Tea & Oranges Edition

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.

Friday 7/14

They Came Back (Les Revenants)
The dead return by the thousands, but they're the French dead: their hunger is existential. (American and Italian zombies, with traditional brain-eating values, will return next weekend.)
Museum of Fine Arts, Remis Auditorium
6 pm, $10
They Came Back: IMDB

Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
Bostonist is baffled by recent documentaries heavy on unnecessary celebrity commentary. Did we really need to know how Alanis Morrissette feels about profanity? Do we now need Bono to tell us Leonard Cohen is the man? No, and no, but Antony singing "If It Be Your Will" (angelically, sans Johnsons) renders such concerns petty.
Kendall Square Cinema
All week at 1:50, 4:25, 7:25, 9:55 pm (and 11:25 am matinees on Saturday & Sunday), $7-$9.25
I'm Your Man: IMDB | web site | trailer

The Magnificent Seven
Yul Brynner & co. defend a Mexican village from bandits in John Sturges's 1960 samurai-western.
Intrigue Café, Boston Harbor Hotel, 70 Rowes Wharf
Starts at dusk, free
The Magnificent Seven: IMDB | trailer

Strangers With Candy
Readers (and one fellow Bostonist) got up in our face about omitting this movie's opening from last week's busy agenda, and rightfully so: Amy Sedaris is hilarious even when she's not tumbling with Stephen Colbert.
AMC Loews Harvard Square & Coolidge Corner Theatre
Playing all week
Strangers With Candy: IMDB | web site | trailers & clips

Monday 7/17

Rock That Uke
Ukuleles! They're not just for Hawaiians and indie pop auteurs anymore.
Coolidge Corner Theatre
7 pm, $12
Rock That Uke: IMDB | Ukuleles in the Globe | web site

Love
This silent version of Anna Karenina, retitled so the posters could say "Greta Garbo and John Gilbert in Love," had two endings: a happy one for American audiences, and a tragic one for the rest of the world. Monday night, we'll see them both, delightfully accompanied by Yakov Gubanov on piano.
Harvard Film Archive
7 pm, $8
Love: IMDB

Tuesday 7/18

Pushover & Nightfall
Kim Novak, Fred MacMurray, and Anne Bancroft make some very bad decisions in two lesser-known films noirs.
Brattle Theatre
Pushover at 3:30 & 7:30 pm, Nightfall at 5:30 & 9:30 pm, $9 double feature

Wednesday 7/19

My Neighbor Totoro (Tonari no Totoro)
Studio Ghibli's classic animation features curiously likeable children, fuzzy forest creatures in a wide range of sizes, and a cat bus. It's like an 86-minute hug.
Brattle Theatre
1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30 & 9:30 pm, $7.50-$9
IMDB | fan site | trailer

Little Miss Sunshine
Preview an anticipated Sundance comedy about a cross-country road trip from hell (with Devotchka and Sufjan Stevens in the car stereo).
Kendall Square Cinema
7 pm, free (RSVP to see if there are any seats left)
Little Miss Sunshine: IMDB | trailers

Picnic At Hanging Rock
The 1998 director's cut of Peter Weir's film about disappearing Victorian schoolgirls is actually seven minutes shorter than the original version and, we're guessing, seven minutes more mysterious.
North End Branch, Boston Public Library, 25 Parmenter Street
6 pm, free
Picnic At Hanging Rock: IMDB | trailer

Victoria Daskal contributed to this post.