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NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.

Bam

The controversial, remarkable The Spook Who Sat By the Door plays in a new restoration.

Roxy Cinema

Fidelio, our four-film program with Chapo Trap House’s Movie Mindset, has an encore with Eyes Wide Shut on a spectacular 35mm print this Saturday; Amalia Ulman has programmed prints of The Piano Teacher and The Holy Girl.

Film at Lincoln Center

An essential restoration of Shinji Somai’s Moving continues.

Museum of the Moving Image

Erich von Stroheim’s Greed plays on 35mm with live accompaniment this Sunday; Alice in the Cities, Insiang, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, and The Muppet Movie have screenings.

Paris Theater

“Big & Loud!” returns with 70mm prints of Vertigo and Boogie Nights, along with The Abyss, Close Encounters, and Days of Heaven.

Film Forum

A new restoration of Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy begins playing; Army of Shadows continues.

"If someone remains in contact with the boy, he'll make it." Janus Films has revealed an official trailer for a 4K restoration of an animated sci-fi classic called The Time Masters, also known as just Time Masters or Les Maîtres du Temps originally in French. "The Time Masters is a trippy, visually fantastic foray into existentialist space adventure." This stunning animation creation is one of the few cinema works from the legendary Moebius, aka Jean Giraud. Directed by René Laloux as his follow-up to 1973's Fantastic Planet, this one first opened in France in 1982, and in the US in 1984. Now 40 years later it's getting a proper 4K restoration and re-release, with a theatrical run planned later this summer in US art house theaters. Don't miss it! In The Time Masters, Piel, a young boy, is stranded alone on the dangerous desert planet Perdide, the only survivor of an attack by giant hornets.

Warning: Spoilers for Stargirl: The Lost Children #4She may not be the world's most powerful hero, but Stargirl's current predicament means only she has the power to completely change DC history. After finding an island full of "forgotten" Golden Age sidekicks, Stargirl's next choice could redefine the DC Universe for years to come.

Stargirl realizes she has to make this difficult choice about the forgotten sidekicks in Stargirl: The Lost Children #4 by Geoff Johns, Todd Nauck, Matt Herms, and Rob Leigh. First, Corky Baxter - a young member of the time-traveling Time Masters - explains how a number of Golden Age sidekicks found themselves held captive on an island outside of time while DC's timeline was in constant flux. The children realize that they've been forgotten by their families and mentors, but Corky explains everyone will instantly remember them, as if they've never left, after they return to their original times.

Warning! Spoilers ahead for Stargirl: The Lost Children #4!The choice that wound up creating the Flashpoint timeline is one that's going to haunt the Flash for the rest of time. Barry Allen's creation of the most unstable DC world is something that has officially put a permanent stain on his otherwise stellar reputation.

While he's always understood the consequences his powers could have if used improperly, Barry used them to rectify a painful loss. After discovering that the Reverse-Flash was responsible for killing his mother, the Flash decided to go back in time and save her. Unfortunately, it had the unintended result of creating the Flashpoint timeline, a diverging universe where the world's greatest heroes were missing and an Atlantean/Amazon war threatened to tear the world apart. Thankfully, Barry came to his senses, but his alterations to DC's history allowed the timeline to be manipulated by outside forces...

Warning! Spoilers ahead for Stargirl: The Lost Children #4!It looks like one selfish choice of Batman has resulted in a powerful tragedy that's rocked the DC Universe. Bruce Wayne's actions in Flashpoint Beyond has had unforeseen consequences that have made some of the most vulnerable heroes suffer.

Fans don't need to be told that Bruce Wayne incurred a painful loss when his parents were gunned down in Crime Alley when he was just a child. It's the moment that caused him to devote his life to justice and put him on a path to becoming one of the Dcu's greatest heroes. However, after Bruce became aware of the Flashpoint timeline, he discovered that there was an alternate path where his parents lived. Not wanting to lose them again, Batman stole a snowglobe from the Time Masters and used residual temporal energy to trap the Flashpoint timeline inside it as a pocket universe,...

French comic book artist internationally known by his pen names Moebius and Gir

The artist Jean Giraud was principally known for his work on comic books under two pen names. As Gir, the co-creator of Blueberry, one of France's most popular strips, his brushwork was detailed and realistic; as Moebius, he used intricate, visually arresting penwork to explore the subconscious in his creations Arzach, Le Garage Hermétique (The Airtight Garage) and L'Incal (The Incal). But Giraud, who has died of cancer aged 73, had an impact on the visual arts that went beyond comics. He was seen as a figurehead linking bandes dessinées with modernism and nouveau réalisme. As the co-creator of Métal Hurlant magazine, he took comics to an older, more literate audience. In cinema, his fans ranged from Federico Fellini to Hayao Miyazaki and his style influenced dozens of others, including Ridley Scott, George Lucas, James Cameron and Luc Besson.

The French comic book illustrator and designer Jean Giraud, aka 'Moebius' has died.

Born Jean Henri Gaston Giraud in Nogent-sur-Marne, France in 1938, Giraud started his art career for the French advertising and fashion industries before going on to become of the country’s most popular comic strip artists, later finding fame in North America and Japan.

Among his most famous works is the long-running series "Blueberry", the story of a western anti-hero he co-created with writer Jean-Michel Charlier.

In 1975 he revived his 'Moebius' pseudonym and with Jean-Pierre Dionnet, Philippe Druillet and Bernard Farkas founded the magazine "Métal Hurlant" aka "Heavy Metal", showcasing Moebius' serial "The Airtight Garage" and the groundbreaking "Arzach".

In 1982 he collaborated with director René Laloux to create the science fiction feature-length animated movie "Les Maîtres du temps" (released in English as "Time Masters") based on a novel by author Stefan Wul.

He continued to contribute storyboards and...

French artist Jean Giraud aka Moebius has passed away at age 73, according to the BBC (via THR). He is best known for creating the Western anti-hero Blueberry, which first appeared in 1963 in France. The character was "a loner who traveled the post-Civil War American West after being framed for a murder he did not commit. The character started out as a racist but came to oppose discrimination of all kinds."

American fans known him for his work on the two-part Silver Surfer mini-series he scripted with Stan Lee. The comic won an Eisner Award. He also worked on concepts and storyboards for numerous science fiction films, including Alien,Tron, The Abyss, and The Fifth Element. He also co-created the feature-length animated science fiction film Les Maîtres du temps, which was released in English as Time Masters. 

Giraud's work was featured in a retrospective exhibition in 2010 at the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art in Paris.

Eureka!

Or rather Eureka: Masters of Cinema!

Half a year later than initially advertised, René Laloux' animated science-fiction film "La Planète Sauvage" was released a few weeks back on BluRay.

 

A unique film with a very distinctive style of animation and artwork, Eureka had released what could be called the best English-friendly DVD in 2006, four years ago to the week. I reviewed that edition in January 2008 when Laloux' other two features were released by Eureka as well ("Les Maîtres du Temps" and "Gandahar"), so I will copy my impressions about the movie itself straight from that earlier review.

The part where I'll talk about the BluRay will be all new though: the people over at Eureka really went to work this time, providing an absolutely stellar disc which keeps everything that was good about the DVD and manages to fix most of what was fixable. For starters it has...