What to See This Week
This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such articles but will seek to correct any errors, mis-categorizations or other problems introduced during transfer.
Edvard Munch (Cinema Village)
Dense, witty, and splendidly confrontational, Peter Watkins’s 1976 masterpiece is a biopic like no other. Over the course of three ceaselessly gripping hours, the life and times of the tortured Norwegian artist are rendered through a dazzlingly complex montage that combines recreation, faux-documentary, criticism, and original scholarship. Held over for just a few more days, this rereleased rarity, one of the most lucid films ever made about an artist, is screening in a gorgeous new 35 mm print.
Tropical Malady (IFC Center)
Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s formalist fever dream about love, storytelling, and a shape-shifting shaman confirms his position as the most exciting new filmmaker in the world.
Land of the Dead (general release) Mordantly funny, savagely satirical, deliciously revolting: zombie-flick perfection.
