Weekly Film Agenda: Red Dawn 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 7/28

Cubamor
Gigolos, students, goddesses and tourists dally in Joshua Bee Alafia's musical, fantastical Havana. The Roxbury Film Festival is showing this and many other feature films, as well as experimental shorts, music videos, and some non-fiction: a 25-minute deocumentary called Bootyful World asks if our popular culture's recent butt fixation is "truly liberation or merely another mold that we are forced to fit into.")
MassArt, Tower Auditorium
8 pm, $8
Cubamor: IMDB
Roxbury Film Festival: web site

Good Night, and Good Luck
Shot in handsome black & white, George Clooney's period piece taunts us with an era of intrepid reporters, smoke- and jazz-filled rooms, and ladies who'd fetch newspapers for you. Senator McCarthy stars as himself.
Boston Public Library, West End Branch
3 pm, free
Good Night, and Good Luck: web site | IMDB | trailer

The Manchurian Candidate
Communists are brainwashing Americans, white people are playing Asians, and Angela Lansbury is not to be trusted.
Boston Harbor Hotel, Intrigue Café terrace (70 Rowes Wharf)
Starts at dusk, free
The Manchurian Candidate: IMDB | trailer

Friday 7/28 & Saturday 7/29

Death Trance
Yuji Shimomura, action director of Versus's ninjas, yakuza, and yakuza zombies, has created a post-apocalyptic samurai epic that gets a fitting area premiere in two midnight shows at the Brattle.
Brattle Theatre
Midnight, $9
Death Trance: web site | IMDB | trailer

Monday 7/31

Invasion of the Bodysnatchers
Whether you're afraid of aliens or Cold War political metaphors, the slow psychological terror and the new 35mm print of Don Siegel's 1956 classic are worth a trip to Brookline.
Coolidge Corner Theatre
7 pm, $9
Invasion of the Body Snatchers: IMDB | trailer

The Ladykillers
The BPL continues its Originals/Remakes series on Monday with Alexander Mackendrick's original British ensemble comedy, to be reinterpreted by Americans (the Coen Bros. and Tom Hanks) on Thursday.
Boston Public Library, Rabb Lecture Hall
6 pm, free
The Ladykillers (1955): IMDB

The Scarlet Empress
Marlene Dietrich takes over Russia just by being hot.
Harvard Film Archive
9 pm, $8
The Scarlet Empress: IMDB | Criterion

Wednesday 8/2

The Goonies
A gang of suburban kids find pirate treasure, and future hobbit Sean Astin stars as Mikey, our first asthmatic action hero, in the movie that never says die.
Brattle Theatre
2:15, 4;45, 7:15, 9:45 pm, $7.50-$9
The Goonies: IMDB | trailer