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Upcoming Boston cinema screenings: ‘The Room,’ ‘Twin Peaks’ and more – The Boston Globe
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This cyberpunk mid-90s relic, “Hackers,” features a young Angelina Jolie and Matthew Lillard in a group of rollerskating, chain-smoking teenage hackers who face off in a computer war against Plague (Fisher Stevens), an older cyber criminal who frames them for corporate theft. To celebrate the film’s 30th anniversary, the screening will include a pre-party at 7 p.m. with live music and an afterparty at 10 p.m. with stars Laurence Mason and Renoly Santiago. Sept. 12, 8 p.m. 1h 47m. $31.50. Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Square, Somerville. somervilletheatre.com
This high school comedy transports the story of Jane Austen’s “Emma” to Beverly Hills, following the antics of popular girl Cher Horowitz (Alicia Silverstone) as she roams school halls in designer outfits, gives transfer student Tai (Brittany Murphy) a makeover, and falls for her ex-step-brother (Paul Rudd). The screening is part of Brattle’s Pics and Crafts event series, where audience members are encouraged to multi-task with their knitting, sewing, and other craft projects; lights will be kept partially on. Sept. 15, 6 p.m. 1h 37m. $14.50. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge. brattlefilm.org
Foreign-language Favorites
‘Beauty and the Beast’ (1946)
Jean Cocteau, the French avant-garde poet and painter, adapted “Beauty and the Beast” into a surrealist daydream starring Jean Marais as the Beast who captures Belle (Josette Day) to make her fall in love with him in order to break a curse. Witness a fairy tale brought to life before visual effects, with charming set design, meticulous makeup, and playful practical production that hold up today. Sept. 10, 7:15 p.m. 1h 33m. $19.75. Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St., Brookline. coolidge.org
‘Eat Drink Man Woman’ (1994)
Revisit an early family comedy from Taiwanese director Ang Lee (“Brokeback Mountain”), which follows three sisters (Yang Kuei-Mei, Wang Yu-wen, Jacklyn Wu Chien-lien) who, despite their love lives driving family turmoil, are united by weekly dinners with their retired chef father (Lung Sihung). If you’re looking for a film to warm you up, the film’s sumptuous cooking scenes and heartwarming tale of familial love might be what you need. Sept. 20, 2:30 p.m. 2h 3m. $15. Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 465 Huntington Ave. mfa.org
Watch “The Citizen Kane of bad movies” at a midnight screening with one of its stars, Greg Sestero, who will do a partial script reading and answer audience questions before the film. The legendary so-bad-its-good classic follows Johnny (Tommy Wiseau), a San Francisco banker who discovers his girlfriend Lisa (Juliette Danielle) is having an affair with his best friend, Mark (Sestero), a simplistic plot heightened by unbelievable dialogue, hilarious editing choices, and bewildering narrative decisions. Sept. 13, 11:59 p.m. 1h 40m. $20.75. Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St., Brookline. coolidge.org
‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ (1990)
The absurdist ‘90s charm of “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” was brought to live action with costumes from Jim Henson, following the turtles through the grimy streets and sewers of New York to rescue Splinter, the sensei rat who raised them. The adolescent reptiles crack jokes, face off against samurai, and astral project — at a free outdoors screening, revisit how weird this film really was. Sept. 17, 8 p.m. 1h 33m. Free. Charles River Speedway, 525 Western Ave., Brighton. coolidge.org
‘Twin Peaks: The Return’ (2017)
“Twin Peaks,” the surrealist horror TV series following the murder of Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee), a high school girl in a small Pacific Northwest town full of eccentric characters, originally ran for two seasons on ABC until its cancellation in 1991. Its legacy was renewed when showrunners David Lynch and Mark Frost returned more than 25 years later for “Twin Peaks: The Return,” an inscrutable, genre-bending third season for Showtime. All 18 episodes of the 2017 limited series will be screened at the Brattle Theatre in two-hour blocks. Sept. 10-18. $100 for a ticket pack. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge. brattlefilm.org
Ryan Yau can be reached at ryan.yau@globe.com.