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DARLING COMPANION—A lost dog may be the breaking point for a failing marriage in this new film by Lawrence Kasdan (The Big Chill). Starring Diane Keaton, Kevin Kline, Dianne Wiest. Richard Jenkins and Sam Shepard. Reviewed this issue. Eastern Hills
MEN IN BLACK 3—Sequel. Starring Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Emma Thompson, Michael Stuhlbarg and Jemaine Clement. Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld (Get Shorty). Reviewed this issue. Aurora, Delevan Drive In, Flix, Maple Ridge, Market Arcade, New Angola, Regal Elmwood, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden, Sunset Drive-In
SOUND OF MY VOICE—Brit Marling, the writer and star of Another Earth, returns as a cult leader who claims to be a woman sent from a dystopian future. With Christopher Denham and Nicole Vicius. Directed by Zal Batmanglij. North Park
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KEYHOLE—From the singular Canadian director Guy Maddin (The Saddest Music in the World), an indescribable film in which a gangster named Ulysses (Jason Patric) explores the house he abandoned years ago in search of his wife (Isabella Rossellini). With Udo Kier and Kevin McDonald. Sat 9 pm. Screening Room
M (Germany, 1931)—Fritz Lang’s visceral thriller about a hunt for a child killer that unites the police and the criminal underworld of Berlin. Peter Lorre became an international star as the murderer, a victim of his compulsions, but it’s Lang’s film: look at his depiction of a city falling under the sway of fascism and you’ll understand why he fled a year later. Fri 9 pm. Screening Room
RIGOLETTO—Verdi’s opera from the Royal Opera House in London. Starring Dimitri Plantanias, Ekaterina Siurina, Vittorio Grigolo and Christine Rice. Sun 11am. Eastern Hills
SCARLET STREET (1945)—Fritz Lang’s prototypical film noir starring Edward G. Robinson as an unhappily married bank teller whose artistic abilities are exploited by a young woman (Joan Bennett) and her lover (Dan Duryea). Fri, Sat 7 pm; Thurs 7:30 pm. Screening Room
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