22-05-2025
Movies to see this week: 'The Doors,' 'North By Northwest,' 'Hundreds of Beavers'
Showcases, a new midnight movie classic, and a chance to see one of the late Val Kilmer's best roles highlight the movie calendar this week.
Here are the repertory movies you can catch around the Twin Cities during the week of May 21.
Thursday, May 22, at the Walker Art Center
The new film from Vera Brunner-Sung and producers Kazua Melissa Vang and Yeej, Bitterroot, has played in town a couple of times already, with screenings during the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival and last week at the Walker Art Center.
This week, Vang and Yeej will curate a showcase of local Hmong artists and filmmakers, continuing some of the themes from their acclaimed film, which was shot in Missoula but featured talent from the Twin Cities Hmong community on-screen and in the production. 725 Vineland Pl., Minneapolis (free)
Thursday, May 22, at Emagine Willow Creek
Biopics on iconic musicians have become commonplace and are often a bit paint-by-numbers. The expected boredom has sullied expectations for the subgenre, even when there are thrilling examples of the form out there, like Oliver Stone's The Doors.
The late Val Kilmer fully embodies Jim Morrison, singing, moving, and looking like him. The movie moves quickly at times, tracing Morrison's life from film school up through his death at 27 in Paris. 9900 Shelard Pkwy., Plymouth ($12.59)
Saturday, May 24, at The Parkway Theater
Hundreds of Beavers feels like what might have happened if a silent film director from the 1920s grew up on Adult Swim cartoons and made a Bugs Bunny-inspired comedy. With almost no spoken dialogue, a 19th-century fur trapper is tormented by rabbits, woodpeckers, raccoons, fish, and geese out on the frontier. Worst of all are the beavers, of which, you may have guessed, there are hundreds.
With intentionally absurd special effects, he goes to war with a deluge of men in beaver costumes. It's already becoming a midnight movie classic, even though it really only hit theaters in 2024. 4814 Chicago Ave., Minneapolis ($16.73–$20)
Sunday, May 25, at Emagine Willow Creek
Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, Thirst) doesn't pull punches in his films. Rather, he tends to set you up for a few final jabs that can be brutally stunning.
That's the case in The Handmaiden, which starts as a dark drama when a Korean girl is hired to be the handmaiden to a rich Japanese heiress. The young woman, however, is actually a thief who has been hired to rob and seduce the heiress. Things get twisted and messy. 9900 Shelard Pkwy., Plymouth ($12.59)
Monday, May 26, and Wednesday, May 28, at Heights Theater
The Hitchcock Festival at the Heights Theater is long gone, but there's still more from the master of suspense coming up.
Some of Alfred Hitchcock's most iconic films have scenes that burn so brightly in memory that those scenes stand in for the entirety of the film and can obscure their greatness. North By Northwest can feel that way.
Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) gets mistaken for a government agent by a group of spies. It looks like a simple case of mistaken identity, but things go wrong over and over, pulling him deeper and deeper into danger. That includes falling for Eve Kendall (Eva Marie Saint). It's tense and delightfully frustrating every step of the way, especially if your memory of the movie is a bit obscured by its iconic plane scene. 3951 Central Ave. NE, Columbia Heights ($19–$19.75)More movies screening this week in the Twin Cities:
May 21: 28 Days Later (2002) at Alamo Drafthouse, AMC Southdale, Emagine Willow Creek, and Oakdale Cinema
May 21: Cooley High (1975) at Alamo Drafthouse
May 21: Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) at AMC Inver Grove, Emagine White Bear, Oakdale Cinema, Parkwood Cinema, St. Michael Cinema, and West End Cinema
May 21: Labyrinth (1986) at Emagine Eagan, Emagine Lakeville, and Emagine White Bear
May 21: The Wiz (1978) at AMC Southdale, Oakdale Cinema and West End Cinema
May 21: Fresa y Chocolate (Strawberry and Chocolate) (1993) at The Main Cinema, part of the Minnesota Cuban Film Festival
May 21: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) at Edina Mann Theatres
May 21: Pride & Prejudice (2005) at St. Michael Cinema
May 21: The Unborn II (1994) at The Trylon Cinema
May 21: Moonstruck (1987) at The Parkway Theater
May 21: Crossroads (2002) at Alamo Drafthouse
May 21: Tall Tales (2025) at The Main Cinema
May 22: Hmong Filmmaker Showcase at Walker Art Center
May 22: Making Mr. Right (1987) in 35mm at The Trylon Cinem
May 22: Phffft (1954) at Heights Theater
May 22: Gather (2020) at Minneapolis Institute of Art (free)
May 22: The Apartment (1960) at Grandview Theatres
May 24: Star Wars: Episode VI - The Return of the Jedi (1983) at The Parkway Theater
May 24: Hundreds of Beavers (2022) w/ costume contest at The Parkway Theater
May 24: The '80s Action Extravaganza II: The Quickening at The Trylon Cinema
May 24: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) midnight screening at The Parkway Theater
May 25: Larry McDonough Quintet Jazz Music + Movie Series presents Miles Ahead (2015) at The Parkway Theater
May 25: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) at Roxy's Cabaret
May 25–27: Young Frankenstein (1978) at The Trylon Cinema
May 25: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) at Roxy's Cabaret
May 25 and 28: Blazing Saddles (1974) at Emagine Eagan, Emagine Lakeville, and Emagine White Bear
May 25: Bree Way: Promise Witness Remembrance at Minneapolis Institute of Art
May 25 and 29: Twilight (2008) at Grandview Theatre
May 26: Terminating Mystery Movie at Alamo Drafthouse
May 26 and 28: Jaws (1975) at Alamo Drafthouse
May 26: Silver Bullet (1995) at Emagine Willow Creek
May 27: The Vourdalak (2024) at Alamo Drafthouse
May 27: The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) in 35mm at The Parkway Theater
