OPENING THIS WEEK:

NEW IN TOWN—Romantic comedy stars Renée Zellweger as a Miami businesswoman trying to adjust to a different type of lifestyle when she’s transferred to a small Minnesota town. Co-starring Harry Connick Jr., Siobhan Fallon, and J.K. Simmons. Directed by Jonas Elmer. Reviewed this issue. Flix, Maple Ridge, Regal Elmwood, Regal Hollywood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria

TAKEN—Liam Neeson stars as a former spy tracking the kidnappers of his daughters in this French thriller arriving in the US (in edited form) a year after its original release. Co-starring Famke Janssen, Maggie Grace, Katie Cassidy, and Goran Kostic. Directed by Pierre Morel. Flix, Maple Ridge, Market Arcade, Regal Elmwood, Regal Hollywood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria

THE UNINVITED—Remake of an Asian horror movie by a pair of directing brothers. It’s 1999 all over again! Starring Emily Browning, Arielle Kebbel, David Strathairn, and Elizabeth Banks. Directed by The Guard Brothers. Regal Walden Galleria, Flix, Maple Ridge, Market Arcade, Regal Elmwood, Regal Hollywood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit

ETC:

ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL—Selection of shorts from the long-lived festival of independent and avant garde film. Fri 8pm. Squeaky Wheel, 712 Main St (884-7172) www.queaky.org

DIABOLIQUE (France, 1954)—This classic thriller by director-screenwriter Henri-Georges Clouzot (The Wages of Fear) still packs a punch. The wife of the headmaster of a school for boys tires of his violent treatment of her, and teams up with his mistress (Simone Signoret) to drown him and make it appear as a suicide. But after they do, the body disappears, and the supposedly dead man is sighted all over town. Presented as part of the Buffalo Film Seminar. Tues 7pm Market Arcade Film and Arts Center, 639 Main St. (855-3022)

GROUNDHOG DAY (1993)—Bill Murray stars as an obnoxious television weatherman caught in a time warp that forces him to relive the day he’s stranded in a small Pennsylvania town. Andie MacDowell is Murray’s romantic interest, an independent producer. Directed by Harold Ramis, substantially better than anything else he has ever done. Tues 1, 3, 5, 7pm. Hamburg Palace Theatre, 31 Buffalo St, Hamburg (649-2295) www.hamburgpalace.com

HOWARD’S END (1992)—The Merchant Ivory team was operating at its peak with this adaptation of an E.M Foster novel about class consciousness and changing social roles in Edwardian England. Starring Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter, and James Wilby. Mon, 7:30pm. Wick Center, Daemen College, 4380 Main St., Amherst (839-8253)

LA GRANDE ILLUSION (France, 1939)—Jean Renoir’s classic film about men in war, set in a POW camp during the First World War (when it was still called the Great War). With Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay and Erich von Stroheim. Introduced by Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian. Thurs Feb. 5 7:30pm. Albright Knox Art Gallery, 1285 Elmwood Ave. (882-8700)

THE MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (USSR, 1929)—Dziga Vertov’s documentary about a day in the life of Moscow and its citizens may well be the single most influential film ever made, for its exhilarating range of stylistic techniques. Fri-Sat, 9pm. The Screening Room, 3131 Sheridan Drive, Amherst (837-0376) www.screeningroom.net

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975)—Dig out your fishnet stockings and bustiers and get ready to do the Time Warp again with Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Meat Loaf and Magenta. Sat midnight. Palace Theater, 31 Buffalo St., Hamburg (649–2295)

YOUNG AT HEART—Documentary about a Northampton, MA chorus, whose average age is 81, that tours the world singing songs by U2, Talking Heads, James Brown, The Clash, Sonic Youth, Coldplay and other contemporary bands. Fri-Sat, 7pm. The Screening Room, 3131 Sheridan Drive, Amherst (837-0376) www.screeningroom.net