Weekly Film Agenda: Mostly Sunny With A Chance of Awesome

Who wants to be inside a theater in weather like this? This evening, Bostonist won't have to choose between staying outdoors, seeing a band, and enjoying some of our favorite movies:

Friday 8/11

Battleship Potemkin (Bronenosets Potyomkin)
ArtsUnion brings a revolt and a sinking Russian warship to Union Square. The KNOWmovement Orchestra provides ambient lighting and a live soundtrack for Eisentein's groundbreaking silent classic.
Union Square, Somerville
7:30-9:30 pm, free (rain date Saturday 8/12)
Battleship Potemkin: IMDB | video (the whole thing!) on archive.org

The Princess Bride
...Nor must you choose between movies, the ocean, and drinks: you can see Cary Elwes, Robin Wright Penn, Billy Crystal, and Mandy Patinkin in their best roles ever, right on the harbor, while sipping some ridiculous concoction with the suffix -tini inappropriately appended to its name.
Boston Harbor Hotel, Intrigue Café
Dusk, free
The Princess Bride: IMDB | trailer

Animation Block Party
...And we won't have spend 4+ hours on the Fungwah, either. The best independent, student, and professional shorts from Brooklyn’s finest short animation festival are getting an exclusive midnight screening at Brookline's finest movie theater.
Coolidge Corner Theatre
Midnight (Friday & Saturday), $7.50
Animation Block Party: web site

Saturday 8/12

Destiny Has No Favorites (El destino no tiene favoritos)
The title of Alvaro Velarde's telenovela spoof is made up entirely of words Bostonist learned from watching Univision soap operas, in which every other word the shiny-haired heroine utters is destino.
Museum of Fine Arts, Remis Auditorium
4 pm, $9
Destiny Has No Favorites: IMDB

Monday 8/14

The City Symphony
Three silent films about three cities—Amsterdam, Paris, and Berlin— with Berklee's Yakov Gubanov on piano.
Harvard Film Archive
7 pm, $8

Raiders of the Lost Ark
Artifacts, airplanes, Nazis, an archeology professor with a hat and a whip, and a girl who can drink him under the table.
Coolidge Corner Theatre
7 pm, $9
Raiders of the Lost Ark: web site | IMDB

Wednesday 8/16

The Phantom Tollbooth
Western Mass. architect Norton Juster got a grant to write a children's book about urban aesthetics, got bored of that, and ended up writing The Phantom Tollbooth instead: a story about a bored child getting lost in a magical kingdom he enters through the titular tollbooth in his bedroom. Juster is known to be less than fond of Chuck Jones' mostly-animated adaptation, but Bostonist's childhood wouldn't be the same without it.
Brattle Theatre
3:30 & 7:30 pm, $7.50-$9 (double feature with The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T)
The Phantom Tollbooth: IMDB