What To See This Week
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Hou Hsiao-Hsien Retrospective
Anthology Film Archives
Join the awestruck cult of Hou at this thrilling retrospective. “A City of Sadness,” “The Puppetmaster” or “Goodbye, South Goodbye” will rewire your brain, remake your eyes, and forever change the way you experience movies. “Flowers of Shanghai” is one for the ages, an obsessive masterpiece to rank with “Vertigo.” The most entrancing event of the movie year starts today.
Clean
February 9, Walter Reade
Maggie Cheung stars as aging bad girl trying to clean up her act in this modest, meticulous, superbly executed new film by Olivier Assayas. It will be released later this year, but everything is better at the Walter Reade, so reserve tickets now; this single show will sell out in a flash.
Cowards Bend the Knee/Primer
February 5, Pioneer
Following in the path of “Donnie Darko,” Shane Carruth’s avant-sci-fi gem gets a midnight run at the venerable East Village theater/video store/pizza joint. Get your head in a proper state of befuddlement by starting off with a 10:45 screening of Guy Maddin’s kino-gonzo extravaganza.
