The BSR February 2025 repertory movie roundup

The highlights

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Monday, February 24, 7pm
The County Theater, 20 East State Street, Doylestown
Ambler Theater, 108 East Butler Avenue, Ambler

We tragically lost the great David Lynch on January 15, and considering his ties to Philadelphia and the “Eraserhood,” we can probably expect some retrospectives of his work in the coming months.

Nothing elaborate has been announced yet, but two local theaters the same night will be showing Lynch’s 1992’s Fire Walk With Me, the extremely disturbing Twin Peaks prequel that explored the final week in the life of Laura Palmer. Like a lot of Lynch’s body of work, Fire Walk With Me didn’t make much of a box office impact upon its initial release but gained more appreciation over time.

When Harry Met Sally…
Wednesday, February 5, 6:30pm
Bryn Mawr Film Institute, 824 Lancaster Avenue, Bryn Mawr

Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan are reuniting for a Super Bowl commercial, set, naturally, at Katz’s Deli. But while that’s almost certain to be underwhelming, that’s not the case for the movie it’s referencing, 1989’s When Harry Met Sally…

Written by Nora Ephron and directed by Rob Reiner, it’s one of the great Hollywood romantic comedies, one consumed with the eternal question of whether or not men and women can truly be friends.

And if you’re interested in the Meg Ryan/Nora Ephron collaboration that would follow four years later, BMFI is also showing Sleepless in Seattle, on February 13.

Parasite
Beginning Friday, February 7
Various theaters

Bong Joon-ho’s sharp social satire about a poor family slowly insinuating itself into a rich family became the first foreign language film to win the Best Picture Oscar in March 2020. Now, nearly five years after that Oscar win, Parasite is getting a re-release in IMAX theaters ahead of the release of Bong’s follow-up film, Mickey 17.

The Avenging Quartet and Mission of Justice
Friday, February 14, 7:30pm
PhilaMOCA, 531 North 12th Street

There are plenty of traditional Valentine’s Day showings of films this February (see below), but PhilaMOCA is planning something a bit different: “ GIRLS 'N' GUNS VALENTINE! A 16mm Hong Kong Double Feature,” courtesy of Exhumed Films. Both films star Moon Lee and Yukari Oshima.

The Avenging Quartet, from 1993, offers “frenzied kung fu action as a duo of female Chinese cops confront a duo of female Japanese thieves,” while 1992’s Mission of Justice casts the duo as “federal agents who are tasked with destroying a drug-trafficking ring in Thailand.”

More Cinema Screenings

Black Panther
Saturday, February 1
The Colonial Theatre

The Wages of Fear
Saturday, February 1
Friday, February 7
Saturday, February 22
Film Society Center

Jason’s Lyric
Saturday, February 1
Sunday, February 16
Film Society Center

Higher Learning
Thursday, February 6
Wednesday, February 12
Thursday, February 27
Film Society Center

Hellraiser (Remastered)
Wednesday, February 5
Thursday, February 6
Various theaters

Blade
Friday, February 7
Sunday, February 16
Saturday, February 22
Film Society Center

Dreamgirls
Saturday, February 8
The Colonial Theater

Akeelah and the Bee
Saturday, February 8
Saturday, February 22
Bryn Mawr Film Institute

Caligula: The Ultimate Cut
Saturday, February 8
Film Society Center

Forrest Gump
Saturday, February 8
Saturday, February 15
Film Society Center

Coven of the Black Cube
Wednesday, February 12
PhilaMOCA

Moonstruck
Thursday, February 13
The Ambler Theater

Pretty Woman
Thursday, February 13
The County Theater

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Friday, February 14
The Colonial Theatre

Possession
Friday, February 14
Saturday, February 15
Friday, February 21

Casablanca
Friday, February 14
Saturday, February 15
Film Society Center

Rocky Horror Picture Show
Friday, February 14
Ritz Five

Death Becomes Her
Friday, February 14
Saturday, February 15

Existenz
Saturday, February 15
Film Society Center

The Departed
Thursday, February 18
Ritz Five

Rude Boy
Friday, February 19
Lightbox Film Center (Bok Auditorium)

Suburbia (1983)
Monday, February 24
PhilaMOCA

The Rubber Gun
Tuesday, February 25
Lightbox Film Center (Bok Auditorium)

Argo
Tuesday, February 25
Ritz Five

Belle de Jour
Wednesday, February 26
Bryn Mawr Film Institute