Welp, it’s January. That particular time of yr the place everyone seems to be concurrently recovering from the vacations and making an attempt to kick off the brand new yr by placing their finest foot ahead. TV reveals which were on break will quickly return and mid-season premieres rapidly comply with thereafter, however for movie, January is commonly checked out as gradual interval for brand spanking new releases, with choices like “Den of Thieves 2: Pantera,” Leigh Whannell’s “Wolf Man,” and Steven Soderbergh’s “Presence” being unveiled. Movies which have had awards-qualifying runs like Mike Leigh’s “Arduous Truths” and Gia Coppola’s “The Final Showgirl” will even develop wider, boosting their profiles in time for Oscar voting, however typically, there’s not a lot happening to excite the typical movie-goer this month. So what higher time to say, “Out with the brand new, in with the outdated!”
Repertory theaters in New York and Los Angeles have a heap of treasures throughout January to maintain you out of the chilly and within the heat embrace of cinematic historical past. The Metrograph on the Decrease East Aspect of Manhattan has a number of collection happening, together with a tribute to Lebanese-French actress Delphine Seyrig that options “Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles,” named Sight and Sound’s Best Movie of All Time in its 2022 critics’ ballot. Heading to the West Coast, Landmark’s Nuart Theatre can be internet hosting a late-night ode to the Coen Brothers each Friday this month with 4K restorations of a few of their most beloved movies. In anticipation of the upcoming presidential inauguration, a number of theaters are additionally doing collection on resistance cinema, together with the Plaza Theatre positioned in Atlanta, Georgia. Hold studying beneath to search out out all our picks and extra information on when you may catch them.
NEW YORK
Metrograph
As a part of its collection “Delphine Seyrig: Insurgent Muse,” Metrograph can be highlighting 9 of the actress’ movies, together with Jacques Demy’s musical fantasy “Donkey Pores and skin,” Luis Buñuel’s Academy Award-winning surrealist comedy “The Discreet Appeal of the Bourgeoisie,” and the 2019 documentary “Calamity Jane & Delphine Seyrig: A Story.” Seyrig handed away from lung most cancers in 1990, however cinematographer and director Babette Mangolte pieced the doc collectively from footage they’d shot of Seyrig engaged on a movie about frontierswoman Martha Jane Canary and the letters she wrote to her daughter. Movies within the Seyrig collection can be proven all through the month, notably on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays.
One other expertise being honored by Metrograph in January is Chinese language actress Zhang Ziyi. Recognized for her work in “Memoirs of a Geisha,” the theater can be showcasing three of her extra bodily demanding elements with martial arts movies “Home of Flying Daggers,” “The Grandmaster,” and “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” all screening in 35mm. All three have a number of showtimes throughout January 24, 25, and 26. Should you’re in search of one thing a bit creepier, Metrograph’s “Amongst People” options of cinema’s finest alien invasions, from John Carpenter’s “The Factor” to Jonathan Glazer’s “Beneath the Pores and skin.”
IFC Heart
Having handed away in June of 2024, actor and activist Donald Sutherland has already been granted tribute by many a rep theater with screenings of his big selection of performances, however IFC Heart goes all out in celebration of a really one-of-a-kind expertise. Beginning this Wednesday, January 8, for a collection referred to as “Donald Sutherland: (By no means) the Man Subsequent Door,” the Greenwich Village arthouse theater can be screening 13 of Sutherland’s movies, together with his rebellious flip as Hawkeye Pierce in Robert Altman’s “M*A*S*H” and his devastating portrayal of a father and husband on the finish of his rope within the Greatest Image-winning “Extraordinary Individuals.” Different movies being screened as a part of the collection are “The Soiled Dozen,” “Klute,” “The Day of the Locust,” “Don’t Look Now,” “Backdraft,” “JFK,” “Invasion of the Physique Snatchers,” “Six Levels of Separation,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Fellini’s Casanova,” and “Little Murders.”
IFC additionally has an entire month stuffed with enjoyable late-night favorites for its “Waverly Midnights: Faculty Sucks” collection, which facilities round the perfect and bloodiest student-related horror movies. Alternatives embrace Dario Argento’s “Suspiria,” Kinji Fukasaku’s “Battle Royale,” the supernatural thriller “The Craft,” and Karyn Kusama’s “Jennifer’s Physique.” They’ll all display on Fridays and Saturdays all through the month.
MoMA
The Museum of Fashionable Artwork is the place to be this month because it kicks off one other yr of its “To Save and Mission” collection. For the final 21 years, MoMA has been presenting just lately restored gems on the prime of each new yr, with 2025’s choices together with Frank Borzage’s 1927 romance “seventh Heaven,” “The Craving” and “The Put up Telegrapher” — each pre-sound movies from John Ford’s brother, Francis Ford — and Anthony Mann’s 1952 western that includes Jimmy Stewart, “Bend of the River.” The Nationwide Society of Critics just lately offered “To Save and Mission” with a Movie Heritage award this previous weekend.
LOS ANGELES
Landmark Nuart
Whereas Sean Baker’s “Anora” stays the principle merchandise on display at Landmark’s Nuart Theatre in West Los Angles, for these nite-owls on the market, the artwork home staple can be taking part in a unique Coen Brothers movie each Friday at 10:30pm. “Elevating Arizona,” “The Massive Lebowski,” and “O Brother, The place Artwork Thou?” are all amongst the movies screening, in addition to “Miller’s Crossing,” which celebrates its thirty fifth anniversary this yr. Starring Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, John Turturro, and Marcia Homosexual Harden and set through the late Nineteen Twenties, when gangs dominated the day and each man was for himself, “Miller’s Crossing” follows the muscle of an Irish mobster compelled to take care of competing allegiances and lethal penalties. Although it was a field workplace failure after premiering in 1990 at New York Movie Pageant, critics cherished it and the movie has grown in reputation over time, incomes a Criterion Assortment launch in 2022.
New Beverly Cinema
Should you haven’t already began shedding these vacation kilos, the New Bev is cooking up some tasty treats you completely shouldn’t cross on. For individuals who missed it in theaters final yr, Nathan Silver’s offbeat non secular dramedy “Between the Temples” screens on Wednesday, January 15, and Thursday, January 16 in wonderful 35mm — a uncommon alternative because it was initially proven solely in DCP. Having been shot on 16mm, the print for the movie is certain to impress. Carol Kane can also be up for an Impartial Spirit Award subsequent month, so finest to catch the movie now in a theater (and in the absolute best format) whilst you nonetheless can. Later within the month, on January 28, 29, and 30, a scrumptious double characteristic of “Tampopo” and “Massive Evening” can be served scorching for everybody’s enjoyment. Each are staples of the meals cinema style and have a good time the agony and ecstasy delicacies and cooking can supply.
Plaza Theatre — Atlanta, GA
First opened in 1939 — broadly thought-about probably the greatest years in cinema historical past (see “The Wizard of Oz,” “Gone with the Wind,” “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” and so on.) — The Plaza Theatre is Atlanta, Georgia’s longest-running unbiased cinema. The primary movie to play there was George Cukor’s “The Ladies” and although it’s confronted difficulties in its virtually 90-year historical past, together with a stint as a venue for grownup cinema within the Nineteen Seventies, it has continued to be dwelling to the Atlanta Movie Pageant since 2013 and has rebounded significantly since new possession took over in 2017.
This month, Plaza is putting a highlight on “Resistance Cinema” with a collection that features Lizzie Borden’s genre-defying “Born in Flames,” in addition to Guillermo del Toro’s historic fantasy “Pan’s Labyrinth” and Charlie Chaplin’s searing satire of fascism, “The Nice Dictator,” each screening on 35mm. But when there’s one movie on this collection to not miss, it’s Pier Paolo Pasolini’s politically-charged horror piece, “Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom.” Additionally being offered on 35mm, “Salo” facilities round a bunch of rich elites residing through the fascist Republic of Salò (1943-1945) and their countless first rate into vile debauchery as sexual deviousness turns into their solely supply of achievement. A scathing indictment of capitalism and the needs it breeds in people and the collective, the movie feels notably potent for People about to face 4 extra years with a convicted felon and sexual abuser as their president.