What To See This Week
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Vertigo (Museum of the Moving Image) Alfred Hitchcock’s brooding masterpiece is as good a candidate as any for the movie, the one that contains and explains all others. Audiences tend to get so flustered by James Stewart’s melodramatic agony they laugh it off as camp, but don’t let that keep you from the big screen plunge.
Everything at Anthology Film Archives A slew of repertory rarities is set to unspool this weekend at the cornerstone of adventurous New York cinephilia. Jean-Luc Godard’s essential “Number Two” mixes film and video for a groundbreaking experiment in deconstruction. It’s one of the best, and least seen, of his films from the 1970s. The scattershot “Keep Up Your Right” from 1987 is one of his more eccentric attempts at comedy. As a warm-up for the New York Film Festival screening of Philippe Garrel’s “Regular Lovers,” don’t miss the cult auteur’s “Le Lit de la Vierge.”
Every Garrel screening is an event, and this one sounds divine: “a parable of the story of Jesus,” per the program notes, that was shot under the influence of LSD in the months following May 1968. “The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting” is classic Raul Ruiz: erudite, cheeky, convoluted, and gorgeous. Rounding out the blockbuster lineup are ace experimental films by Leslie Thornton.
