Jelly-of-the-Month Clubs, Vampires and Gonzo Kung Fu: This Week's Movie Revivals

Monty Python's Life of Brian plays Dec. 5-11 at the Academy Theater
By AP KRYZA
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 Critics’ Choice series kicks off with the Merc’s Erik Henriksen, who presents Guillermo del Toro’s gorgeously fucked-up vampire film Cronos. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Thursday, Dec. 4.
  1. Speaking of gorgeously fucked-up vampire movies, the David Bowie-Susan Sarandon classic The Hunger is the perfect dessert to Cronos. Hollywood Theatre. 9:30 pm Friday, Dec. 5.
  1. The Hollywood revives the delightful James Stewart-Margaret Sullavan rom-com The Shop Around the Corner, which was later remade as You’ve Got Mail. This should help you forget Meg Ryan. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Friday, Dec. 5.
  1. Alain Resnais’ Hiroshima Mon Amour—a classic, kinda boring meditation on war and the romance between a French actress and a Japanese architect—gets a digital restoration. Cinema 21. Opens Friday, Dec. 5.
  1. High on the list of greatest Christmas traditions is watching Chevy Chase freak out over the jelly-of-the-month club in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. Hallelujah! Holy shit! Where’s the Tylenol? Laurelhurst Theater. Dec. 5-11.
  1. Jesus might get all the attention, but his neighbor went to space, and Monty Python’s Life of Brian is here to tell his tale, helping us all to look on the bright side of life. Academy Theater. Dec. 5-11.
  1. 5th Avenue Cinema ends its year with Andy and Lana Wachowski’s psychedelic Speed Racer because…Jesus, I really have no idea. Because pot? 5th Avenue Cinema. 7 and 9:30 pm Friday-Saturday and 3 pm Sunday, Dec. 5-7.
  1. In anticipation of John Waters’ Christmas show at the Aladdin on Monday, the Clinton Street goes full camp with Hairspray. The one with Divine, not John Travolta in a fat suit. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Friday and Sunday, 9 pm Saturday, Dec. 5-7.
  1. Cinema Classics celebrates the 75th anniversary of Gone with the Wind with a new digital restoration. Hollywood Theatre. 2 pm Saturday-Sunday, Dec. 6-7.
  1. One of the most gonzo kung fu flicks of all time, Master of the Flying Guillotine is a nonstop orgy of eye-popping fights and head-chopping weirdness. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, Dec. 9. 

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