Kitty Smut & Other Fine Stuffs

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Welp, it's Friday already! How does this keep happening? Every week it seems. Well as long as it's Friday let's take a look at the movies that're out today; be helpful and shit. First things first to my fellow New Yorkers, two of this month's big retrospectives are starting -- the Quad Cinema is running "Rated X" a really rather unbelievable series of films that all got slapped with that rating. The series runs from the expected (like the Swedish art-house smut I Am Curious Yellow, co-starring the handsome Börje Ahlstedt, seen above) to John Waters movies to a grand cavalcade of horror flicks like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and The Evil Dead and Dawn of the Dead and Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. Oh and then there is...

... Salon Kitty, a truly insane looking 1976 movie from Tinto Brass, the director of Caligula, about a Nazi Brothel starring Helmut Berger and Ingrid Thulin. HOW have I never seen this??? I am seeing this. Oh and besides that also opening at the Quad today is their restoration of Visconti's Death in Venice, which I mentioned before...

... and speaking of "things I have mentioned before" the second series premiering today here in NYC is FSLC's retrospective of the director Jacques Tourneur; see my original take on this series right here. They are screening both Cat People and I Walked With a Zombie this very evening!!! Ya can't go wrong.

Okay so those aside for the rest of us schmucks in wide release there is Spider-Man Into the Spiderverse - I didn't write a full review but I mentioned this morning that this thing is fantastic and funny enough my opinion hasn't changed since then - it is still fantastic. Go see it. Also opening today -- Barry Jenkins' gorgeous If Beale Street Could Talk (read my review here) and then of course there is ROMA, which I finally wrote up yesterday and which is on your Netflix machines right now -- it is the year's best film. See it in the theater if at all possible, but see it whatever way you can.