The Comfort of Strangers screens at the Harvard Film Archive on Tuesday, May 29, at 9:00 pm and on Wednesday, May 30, at 7:00 pm. The festival ends on May 30, but several other Pinter movies are still showing between now and then. Check their calendar. Note: The Harvard Film Archive will be closed for construction in June.

We were so preoccupied with the Brattle Grindhouse that we almost missed the Harvard Film Archive's Pinterfest, which dovetails so nicely with the ART's production of "No Man's Land," running through June 10 at the Loeb Drama Center.

The Pinterfest screened movies for which Harold Pinter wrote the script, and the festival winds down tomorrow night with The Comfort of Strangers, which is based on Ian McEwan's novel. We're recommending this one not just because we think the Pinter-McEwan pairing is brilliant but because The Comfort of Strangers lets Christopher Walken run amok. A tourist couple (Rupert Everett and Natasha Richardson) is befriended by a very strange Christopher Walken in Venice. They think Walken is scary, but they are drawn to him until they are literally trapped in his world. Throw in Helen Mirren as Walken's wife/disciple and some talk of mascara and a mustache, and things are bound not to end well.

Image of Walken at his crazy, creepy best from haroldpinter.org.