Movie Guide

DOCUMENTARIES: A League of Ordinary Gentlemen chronicles members of the professional bowling league, having suffered declining public support and eventually bought by Microsoft, which tried to to give the game a higher profile; The Fearless Freaks is yet another rock documentary, this time tracing the Flaming Lips’ development and highlighting their drug addiction, sci-fi "Christmas on Mars" movie aspirations, and humble beginnings. And we hope there's some footage of when Gothamist dressed as an owl and joined the Flaming Lips onstage.

TODAY
As part of the 112 Years of Cinema, which resurrects movies that will touch on each year in film history, the MOMA presents Hitchcock’s Rebecca, the Oscar-winning mystery based on the bestselling novel by Daphne du Maurier: Joan Fontaine plays a rich land mogul's new wife haunted and constantly reminded, specifically by her eery housekeeper, of her husband's deceased first wife. Plays at 5:30 PM at the MOMA, 11 W. 53rd.

Cleaview’s Chelsea Cinema presents Fatal Attraction, the classic thriller (“I wont be ignored!”) in which Michael Douglas plays, as usual, a yuppie scumbag with a penchant for dangerous older women, at 7:00 PM.

Legendary filmmaker Fellini’s Nights of Cabiria was a “love letter to his wife,” and tells the story of a sympathetic and hypnotized prostitute who roams the streets in search of love. The final scene of this episodic melodrama is one of the most famous endings in cinema (remember Diane Lane referencing it in Under the Tuscan Sun?). Showtimes are to 5:30, 7:45, and 10:00 PM at Film Forum, 209 West Houston St. at Sixth Ave, $10

Hud, the 1963 Oscar winning film about Paul Newman as an undisciplined, selfish, yet charismatic cowboy, plays at 8:30 PM at the MOMA, 11 W. 53rd between 5th and 6th, $10 (or free with museum admission)

Martin Scorsese's boxing classic, Raging Bull, is a biographical look at the angry & emotionally self-destructive champ Jake LaMotta, played by Robert Deniro (in his pre-Meet the Fockers, good-movie glory days). 2:30 PM at the New York Public Library.

The End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones, about the the roots and rise of one of rock's greatest bands, plays at 7: 00 PM, Two Boots Pioneer Theatre, 155 E 3rd st at Ave A, $9

The Calamari Wrestler, about an ambitious, oversized restaurant-appetizer who revitalizes the Japanese pro wrestling industry by triumphing in their title championship, plays at 5:30 and 10:10 PM @ImaginAsian Theatre, 239 East 59th Street, between 2nd and 3rd.

FRIDAY:
Woody Allen’s neurotic classic Manhattan plays at Landmark's Sunshine Cinema at midnight, 143 E Houston (1st and 2nd).

SATURDAY:
The Lower East Side Film Festival offers a free day of films, including Jim Jarmusch’s collection of black and white vignettes, Coffee and Cigarettes. FREE, all day Saturday, visit their site for the schedule.

SUNDAY
Experimenter Michael Snows' Shorts, combining “swiveling pans that are super imposed over each other to presumably mind-expanding effect," premiereS at 8:30PM @ the Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Ave., $8.

Francois Truffaut’s 1959 The Four Hundred Blows, a landmark of the French new wave cinema (nouvelle vague) and considered one of the greatest coming-of-age movies, follows a neglected rebellious 14 year old Parisian. 2:00 PM at Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street, $10

Mr. Blandings Builds his Dream House, a comedy in which Cary Grant struggles to move his family to CT, plays at 2Pm at the MOMA.

Michael Powell’s ballet masterpiece,The Red Shoes, is about a young ballerina torn between devotion to her ballet instructor and her love for the composer. Showtimes at 2:00 and 6:30 PM @ Walter Reade Theatre, 165 W. 65th.