Weekend Movie Guide

TONIGHT:
Kids, the provocative look at New York’s nihilistic, rebellious youth in the 90’s, plays at 9pm, Two Boots Pioneer Theatre, 155 E 3rd St at Ave A, $9

Raiders of the Lost Ark – Spielberg’s Indiana Jones masterpiece, where the fearless archeologist/adventurer sets to save the Lost Ark from Nazis (aren’t you already humming the theme song?), plays at midnight @ Landmark Sunshine cinema, 143 E Houston (1st and 2nd).

Michael Powell’s cult favorite I Know Where I’m Going, romantic comedy about an Englishwoman who wishes to marry a rich industrialist but falls for a naval officer instead, plays at 6:30pm. Also check out A Matter of Life in Death, Powell’s fantasy film of a pilot arguing his way back into existence in a heavenly court. Walter Reade Theatre, 165 W. 65th and Broadway, $10

Sergio Leone, the legendary filmmaker known for transforming westerns into classics is honored this week at Bam Rose Cinemas. Tonight the epic Once Upon a Time In the West, is showcased at 9:00 PM, BAM, 30 Lafayette Ave and Ashland Place, Fort Greene, Brooklyn, $10

SATURDAY:
Porgy and Bess, the silver screen adaptation of Gershwin’s opera, is set amongst the black residents of a Southern fishing village in 1912 and features Sammy Davis Jr. as well as Sidney Poitier. This 1959 must-see plays at 3:00 and 6:30 PM, at the Museum of the Moving Image, 35th Avenue at 36th St. Astoria, Queens, $10.

MOMA’s 112 Years of Cinema resurrects movies that will touch on each year in film history. Tonight they present the classic Taxi Driver, Martin Scorsese’s tale of a disturbed cabbie in the 70’s.

The Nut Magnet Program showcases filmmaker Jeff Krulik’s “psychotic verite world,” with Shocked and Amazed! chronicling his adventures documenting freaks of the circus sideshows, featuring legends like Ward Hall, sword swallower Johnny Fox, and the greatest shrunken head collector of all time. It was originally commissioned by the Travel Channel and ultimately shelved, but you can see it tonight at 6pm @ The Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Ave. at 2nd st, $8.

SUNDAY:
MOMA’s 112 Years of Cinema presents one of Hollywood’s finest romantic films, the 1939 tearjerker Love Affair at 2pm @ 11 W. 53rd between 5th and 6th, $10 (or free with museum admission)

Sergio Leone’s western A Fistfull of Dollars, with Clint Eastwood as a wandering gunfighter playing two rival groups off against each other plays Sun, 2:00, 4:30, 6:50, and 9:15pm at Bam Rose Cinemas, 30 Lafayette Ave and Ashland, Ft. Greene, Brooklyn, $10

Francois Truffaut’s 1959 debut The Found Hundred Blows, a landmark of the French new wave cinema (nouvelle vague), follows a neglected rebellious 14 year old Parisian. 2:00 PM at Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street, $10