Bigfoot, Bill Murray and Billy Blanks: This Week's Movie Revivals

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid plays Jan. 30-Feb. 5 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. Church of Film returns with a lineup of films by Georges Franju, the French director best known for 1960’s cultishly beloved body horror nightmare Eyes Without a Face. That film, however, will not be showing. Instead, Church of Film is presenting shorts, plus Franju’s rare 1962 existential drama Thérèse Desqueyroux. North Star Ballroom, 635 N Killingsworth Court. 8 pm Wednesday, Jan. 28.
  • Weird Wednesday is back with 1975’s The Mysterious Monsters, a schlocky documentary exploring the existence of Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster. Joy Cinema. 9 pm Wednesday, Jan. 28. 21+. 
  • With Dogville, Lars von Trier proved he could make the sparsest film possible—on a stage with drawn-on furniture—and still punish women with maximum effect. 5th Avenue Cinema. 5:30 and 9 pm Friday-Saturday and 3 pm Sunday, Jan. 30-Feb. 1.
  • NW Film Center presents 1980’s The King and the Mockingbird, a landmark of French animation featuring a shepherdess who lives in a painting, a chimney sweep and other things that sound exactly like what you’ll see at the Portland International Film Festival next week. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. Jan. 30-Feb. 1.
  • Long before Tarantino inserted Rick Ross into a Western, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid used modern music courtesy of Burt Bacharach, and still managed to be a great movie. Academy Theater. Jan. 30-Feb. 5.
  • Rumor has it, if you watch Groundhog Day on actual Groundhog Day (Feb. 2), Bill Murray will show up at your bar mitzvah. Laurelhurst Theater, Jan. 28-Feb. 5. Clinton Street Theater, 7 pm Monday, Feb. 2.
  • B Movie Bingo rolls out TC 2000, a Billy Blanks action extravaganza that manages to rip off The Terminator, Universal Soldier, RoboCop and Wesley Snipes’ barber all at once. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, Feb. 3.

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