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Zombies vs. Sharks, Hungry Crocodiles and Early Gus Van Sant: This Week's Movie Revivals

By AP KRYZA
Drugstore Cowboy is at the Clinton Street Theater Oct. 13-16.
Every week, AP Kryza of AP Film Studies brings you the best revival screenings around town. Most of these theaters serve beer. Plan accordingly.
  1. The Hollywood’s new series, UnderStudy, features comedians improvising lines for classic movies that they promise will be “a lot funnier.” Considering the inaugural entry, Glengarry Glen Ross, is one of the most razor-tongued films of all time, that seems unlikely. Hollywood Theatre. 9:30 pm Thursday, Oct. 9.
  1. KBOO screens the documentary The U.S. vs. John Lennon to celebrate the late Beatle’s birthday. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Thursday, Oct. 9.
  1. James Ivory—Oregon native and three-time Oscar nominee—drops by the Hollywood for 1987’s groundbreaking Maurice, about a gay boy coming of age in Edwardian England. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Friday, Oct. 10.
  1. Eschewing the tangle-haired apparitions and chain-saw-mouthed schoolgirls who dominate Japanese horror, 2001’s Pulse is a genuinely chilling, technophobic master class in fright. 5th Avenue Cinema. 7 and 9:30 pm Friday-Saturday and 3 pm Sunday, Oct. 10-12.
  1. The Clinton Street’s centenary bash continues with Repo Man, plus a collection of shorts and photos commemorating the theater in the ’80s. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Friday, Oct. 10.
  1. If you’ve still managed to avoid Lucio Fulci’s Zombi, you’re not just denying yourself a zombie-vs.-shark melee, and one of the grossest eyeball gags in cinematic history. You’re missing perhaps the best George Romero rip-off ever crafted. 5th Avenue Cinema. 7:30 pm Friday, Oct 10. Free.
  1. Sure, it’s an action flick, but between the child slavery, monkey brains and hungry crocodiles, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom works equally well as high camp. Laurelhurst Theater. Oct. 10-16. 
  1. Three decades later, not even the best CGI can top the gnarly transformation scenes in An American Werewolf in London. Neither can any film approach its balance of terror and humor. Academy Theater, Oct. 10-16. Hollywood Theatre, 9:35 pm Friday-Sunday, Oct. 10-12.
  1. The Hollywood screens another James Ivory picture, Autobiography of a Princess, about an Indian princess exiled to 1970s London. Hollywood Theatre. 11:30 am Saturday, Oct. 11.
  1. The rarely seen Algerian war drama The Olive Trees of Justice is followed by a panel discussion of director James Blue’s globe-trotting life, led by his brother, Richard. Hollywood Theatre. 1 pm Saturday, Oct. 11.
  1. Zompire: The Undead Film Festival returns from the grave (thanks to an infusion of Kickstarter blood) with a lineup of shorts and features. Clinton Street Theater. Oct. 11-12. See zompire.com for full listings.
  1. Gus Van Sant’s Drugstore Cowboy features junkies roaming a dilapidated Portland many won’t recognize. It’s the Pearl, 25 years ago. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Monday, Wednesday and Thursday and 9:30 pm Tuesday, Oct. 13-16.
  1. Kung Fu Theater rolls out the only known print of gonzo martial-arts oddity The Hot, the Cool and the Vicious. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, Oct. 14. 

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