The BSR May 2023 repertory movie roundup

The highlights

Goodfellas
Sunday, May 7, 6pm
Saturday, May 13, 6pm
Philadelphia Film Center, 1412 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia

Tuesday, May 16, 1pm and 7pm
Ritz Five, 214 Walnut Street, Philadelphia

Martin Scorsese’s 1990 mob epic about the three-decade rise-and-fall of mob hanger-on Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) is showing four times this month, all in 4K: twice at the Film Center by virtue of its spot as the 63rd film on the Sight & Sound 100, and twice more at the Ritz Five as part of its monthlong May’d Men: Scorsese & De Niro series—which also includes Taxi Driver Raging Bull, Cape Fear, and Casino.

Moonlight
Thursday, May 18, 7pm
PFS Bourse, 400 Ranstead Street, Philadelphia

Sunday, May 21, 5:30pm
Philadelphia Film Center, 1412 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia

Medicine for Melancholy
Wednesday, May 24, 7pm
Philadelphia Film Center, 1412 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia

Barry Jenkins has one of the most unique and skilled voices of any filmmaker working today, and his first two films are both showing in town this month. Moonlight, the Best Picture of 2016 and 61st on the Sight & Sound 100 list, is the heartbreakingly beautiful story of three incidents in the life of a gay Black boy in Miami, while his 2008 debut Medicine is a Before Sunrise-style story of Wyatt Cenac and Tracey Higgins walking around San Francisco. The latter is part of the Film Society’s Debut series.

Sports Movie Night
Tuesday, May 16, 7:30pm
Bryn Mawr Film Institute, 824 Lancaster Avenue, Bryn Mawr

Two longtime WIP sports radio hosts—occasional movie actor Glen Macnow and not-so-retired Ray Didinger—are noted film buffs who wrote a book together back in 2009 called The Ultimate Book of Sports Movies. At BMFI, they’re reuniting to talk about sports movies, share clips from their favorite ones, and sign books.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Saturday, May 6, 8:30pm
Laurel Hill East, 3822 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia

Friday, May 26, 10pm
Ritz Five, 214 Walnut Street, Philadelphia

Rocky Horror is having its usual monthly showing at the Ritz Five, but this month it’s convening outdoors at Laurel Hill East to kick off the summer’s Outdoor Cinema Series in partnership with the Philadelphia Film Society. The usual gang from Philly’s Transylvanian Nipple Productions will handle the pre-show and costume contest, while Chocolate-Covered Rocky Horror, a Baltimore-based, mostly Black ensemble, will do the shadowcast during the movie.

Cats
Friday, May 26, 11:30pm
Ritz Five, 214 Walnut Street, Philadelphia

The movie adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats got some of the most scathing reviews of the decade when it arrived in late 2019, but there were occasional calls that it’ll someday resurface as a campy midnight movie. That has finally happened, albeit a half hour early, with the Ritz Five showing it at 11:30pm on May 26. Presumably, Judi Dench’s human hands will have been patched out.

Other notable screenings

Tetsuo the Iron Man
Thursday, May 4
PhilaMOCA, 531 North 12th Street, Philadelphia

Midnight Cowboy
Thursday, May 4
Bryn Mawr Film Institute, 824 Lancaster Avenue, Bryn Mawr

Beau Travail
Thursday, May 4
Ambler Theater, 108 E Butler Ave, Ambler

Older Women and Love and The KKK Boutique Ain’t Just Rednecks
Thursday, May 4
Lightbox Film Center, 401 South Broad Street

Casablanca
Friday, May 5
Philadelphia Film Center, 1412 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia

Sunday, May 28
Tuesday, May 30
Hiway Theater, 212 York Road, Jenkintown

The Third Man
Sunday, May 7
Philadelphia Film Center, 1412 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Sunday, May 7
Colonial Theater, 227 Bridge Street, Phoenixville

Raging Bull
Tuesday, May 9
Ritz Five, 214 Walnut Street, Philadelphia

Wednesday, May 31
Ambler Theater, 108 E Butler Ave, Ambler

The Road Warrior
Thursday, May 11
Ambler Theater, 108 E Butler Ave, Ambler

Mermaids
Saturday, May 13
Sunday, May 14
Monday, May 22
Bryn Mawr Film Institute, 824 Lancaster Avenue, Bryn Mawr

Grey Gardens
Saturday, May 13
Colonial Theater, 227 Bridge Street, Phoenixville

Grease
Sunday, May 14
Wednesday, May 17
Various theaters

Polyester
Wednesday, May 17
Ambler Theater, 108 E Butler Ave, Ambler

Cape Fear
Tuesday, May 23
Ritz Five, 214 Walnut Street, Philadelphia

Top Gun
Thursday, May 25
Ambler Theater, 108 E Butler Ave, Ambler

Jaws
Saturday, May 27
Wednesday, May 31
Hiway Theater, 212 York Road, Jenkintown

La Dolce Vita
Saturday, May 27
Philadelphia Film Center, 1412 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia

Casino
Tuesday, May 30
Ritz Five, 214 Walnut Street, Philadelphia

Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Wednesday, May 31
Bryn Mawr Film Institute, 824 Lancaster Avenue, Bryn Mawr