From ‘Flow' to ‘Apocalypse Now': Boston's week of timeless cinema screenings

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If summer blockbusters aren't doing it for you this year, Boston cinemas play host to repertory screenings to revisit favorites: from last year's Oscar-winning 'Flow' to the aviation action film 'Top Gun,' here are Boston area screenings for the week of July 15–20.
No Country for Old Men (2007)
It all starts with a briefcase. When Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) stumbles across $2 million dollars — the result of a failed drug deal — in the West Texas desert, his big break becomes his worst nightmare as both sides of the law pursue him. Good-natured sheriff (Tommy Lee Jones) and an inhumanly relentless hitman (Javier Bardem) cross paths in an endlessly entertaining three-way entanglement of justice in one of the defining Westerns of the 21st century.
July 16, 4 p.m. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge.
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Rick Rossovich, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards, and Tom Cruise in the 1986 film "Top Gun," directed by Tony Scott.
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Top Gun (1986)
Before Tom Cruise was
July 17, begins at dusk. Free
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410 Revere Beach Blvd., Revere.
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In the Mood for Love (2000)
Summer yearners rejoice: Wong Kar-wai's masterful portrait of withheld emotion returns to cinemas this week for its 25th anniversary. 'In the Mood for Love' follows Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung — two of Hong Kong's biggest stars at the time — as neighbors who learn their respective partners are in an affair, and the romantic gray zone they enter. The restoration includes a new final chapter, previously only seen at the film's original Cannes premiere.
July 15-18, various showtimes. Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St., Brookline.
Tony Leung in "In the Mood for Love 2001," the rarely-seen chapter included with the 25th anniversary restoration.
Janus Films
Flow (2024)
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July 18, 6 p.m. Free admission, RSVP required. Kendall/MIT Open Space, 292 Main St., Cambridge.
Apocalypse Now
(1979)
At the tail end of director Francis Ford Coppola's legendary '70s run sits 'Apocalypse Now,' a Vietnam War film about a group of soldiers sent on a mission to kill a rogue colonel (Marlon Brando) who has fled into the depths of the Cambodian jungle. As the captain (Martin Sheen) becomes consumed by his quest, he loses sight of his own humanity, and the journey down the river leads to one of the great depictions of human madness. Not bad enough? Catch the making-of documentary '
July 19, 7:30 p.m. Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Square, Somerville.
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