Police have settled on the Boston Strangler being Albert DeSalvo, like the 1968 film directed by Richard Fleischer (“Soylent Green”) with Tony Curtis as DeSalvo. In theaters and streaming ‘Boston Strangler’ (2023) Shifting its cultural lens, the HFA exhibits a series of Korean shorts revolving around celestial bodies as part of the “Youjin Moon, Inner and Outer Space” on Monday. Also as part of the Latin American focus, on Friday the HFA brings in filmmaker Andrés Di Tella to show and talk about his 2007 film “Photographs” as part of its “Archives and Memory” theme. The Harvard Film Archive continues its “Remapping Latin America Cinema: Chilean Film/Video 1963-2013” with a screening of Marilú Mallet’s “Unfinished Diary” (1982) and Angelina Vázquez’s “Fragments from an Unfinished Diary” (1983) playing March 26. Ulmer’s 1955 noir, “Murder is My Beat,” starring Barbra Payton as the femme fatal and Paul Langton and the cop enrapt by her charms. Also on Friday, Channel Zero, the local film consortium obsessed with unearthing old classics, will screen “The Black Cat” (1934) and “Detour” (1945) as well as director Elmer G. Assange’s father and brother will be on hand after the screening for a conversation with Harvard professor Biella Coleman. On Wednesday comes a screening of Ben Lawrence’s 2021 documentary about the political imprisonment of Wikileaks journalist Julian Assange and the struggle to free him. The 14th annual Ciclismo Classico Bike Travel Film Fest rolls in Monday at the Somerville Theatre. The screening commemorates the B-masterpiece’s 65th anniversary. Welles cast himself as a grotesque police enforcer on the take, and Hollywood legend Marlene Dietrich gives a deep performance as a lonely soul time has passed by. The Tuesday Retro Replay at the Landmark Kendall Square Theatre in the “Seeing Double: Welles and Lean” series serves up Orson Welles’ dark, border town noir “Touch of Evil” (1958) starring Charleston Heston and Janet Leigh as lovers ensnared in political corruption and murder. Then there’s a unique spin on Frankenstein with “The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster” (March 26) the latest absurd horror from French filmmaker Quentin Dupieux (“Rubber,” “Deerskin”), called “Smoking Causes Coughing” (Thursday) Neon’s hotly anticipated eco-terrorist thriller “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” (March 26) the Norwegian curio “I’m Sick of Myself” (Saturday) and several shorts packages with such eye-catching labeling as “Butter My Noodle” and “Trigger Warning.” It’s provocative on paper and promises to be strange onscreen. The Steven Soderbergh-produced project plays Saturday and features an ensemble that includes Stephen Dorff, Scott Bakula and Bella Thorne. Other highlights include the Sundance sci-fi sensation “Divinity,” about brothers who kidnap a mogul. Brown will attend, along with the film’s Cambridge-based screenwriting brothers Michael and Shawn Rasmussen, the tandem behind Alexandre Aja’s 2019 gator-gone-berserk chiller “Crawl” and the John Carpenter-directed “The Ward” (2010). Brown (“The Beach House), about a young woman (Lachlan Watson) who undergoes an experimental procedure and begins to have aural hallucinations of her mother, who recently and mysteriously vanished. The Brattle is also home to the 23rd rendition of the Boston Underground Film Festival, with all things weird, wild and totally WTF programmed by the self-titled “purveyors of all things strange.” It kicks off Wednesday with “The Unheard,” the latest from local filmmaker Jeffrey A. The extended run of Albert Serra’s gorgeously shot spy thriller “Pacifiction” (reviewed below), revolving around a French diplomat (Benoît Magimel) who discovers subterfuge and shifting political agendas while stationed in Tahiti, continued this week at The Brattle Theatre.
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