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You don't need us to tell you August has been hot. But we have news about how cool September will be at Cinema Salem.
SEPTEMBER SPECIAL SCREENINGS
Venerable classics and something brand new
Sunday, September 5, 11 am.
Try to keep your balance as James Stewart loses his in VERTIGO (buy tickets), the first of three enduringly fine films we're screening in September.
Combines in an almost unique balance Hitchcock's brash flair for psychological shocks with his elegant genius for dapper stylishness. Guardian
Hitchcock's rich and strange fable of love lost, and lost again, makes the case for him as a grand experimental artist who labored in genre cinema. Slant Magazine
Thursday, September 9, 7 pm. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND launches our Cinema Sounds series with its focus on great film scores. This 1977 film was one of the earliest collaborations between composer John Williams and director Steven Spielberg. The pair went on to rack up an astonishing number of major motion picture successes, but CLOSE ENCOUNTERS remains one of Williams' own favorite scores. (Buy tickets)
Sign language for communicating with aliens. Honk if you speak Kodaly.
Friday, September 17, 7 pm. A switch to something brand new,.
PRISONERS OF THE GHOSTLAND is a new film starring Nicolas Cage in perhaps the strangest role he's ever played. (Buy tickets) That's saying a lot. Sion Sono directed.
In it, a notorious criminal is sent to rescue an abducted woman who has disappeared into a dark supernatural universe. They must break the evil curse that binds them and escape the mysterious revenants that rule the Ghostland, an East-meets-West vortex of beauty and violence.
Thursday, September 23, 7 pm.
A return to Hitchcock classics with REAR WINDOW.
(Buy tickets)
"The most densely allegorical of Alfred Hitchcock's masterpieces, moving from psychology to morality to formal concerns and finally to the theological. It is also Hitchcock's most innovative film in terms of narrative technique." Chicago Reader
THIS WEEKEND: Top first-run picks
This Friday we present the highly anticipated SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS. According to early reviews, this latest arrival from the MCU lives up to its hype.
"It's a refreshing lift for this next phase of Marvel's world domination. You leave genuinely wanting to see more of Shang-Chi, even as we know we'll be meeting him again very soon." Denver Post
"It's Marvel doing what Marvel does, but getting almost everything right this time." Daily Telegraph (UK)
CANDYMAN and FREE GUY are back for another week. These two films are getting kudos from critics and audiences alike. They claimed the top two spots in last week's box office rankings.
