Weekend Movie Roundup

First, everyone (including me) and her parakeet is going to be seeing Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind this weekend. Here's a smattering of reviews:

Over at Slate, David Edlestein calls ESotSM "the best movie I've seen in a decade."

Salon's Stephanie Zacharek is slightly less enthusiastic. Although she too liked the film, she's frustrated by its "bag of ironic tricks."

Also in the "enjoyed, with reservations" camp is The Times' Elvis Mitchell, who found that "this angular and intelligent romantic comedy isn't entirely consistent. Even as you laugh, it's a movie you admire more than love."

The New Yorker's Anthony Lane weighs in with a somewhat inscrutable review of the film's "unlovely elegance."

p.s. I love you, Kate Winslet.

In the rep houses and elsewhere around town this weekend:

Landmark Loew's Theater in Jersey City - "Wilder Laughter," three films of Billy Wilder, including Sabrina, One, Two, Three, and Some Like It Hot.

The Sunshine Theater - Catch Mel Brooks's Blazing Saddles at midnight Friday and Saturday nights.

AMMI - Get your woman-torturing freak on Saturday and Sunday with Lars Von Trier's Epidemic, The Kingdom (I and II), and Medea.

Film Forum - The Welles Festival continues with The Stranger and The Lady from Shanghai.

MoMA Gramercy - Sit through fourteen-and-a-half hours (over two days) of Peter Watkins's The Journey.