Sisters

He claims that “endings are hard” in the career-spanning documentary released this week, but Brian De Palma aced it with the closing punch line to Sisters. Released in 1973, this is the gonzo Hitchcock riff about conjoined twins (played by Margot Kidder) that put the young director on the map. Double-billed with Dressed to Kill at the Vancity Theatre on Saturday (July 2), Sisters is one of the highlights of a career receiving an equally expansive retrospective at the film centre, kicking off Friday (July 1) with Carrie.

The Projector: What to see and where to see it

Much Ado About Nothing
Joss Whedon surprised everyone when he sneaked this frothy take on the Bard into theatres in 2012, shot at his home during a break in The Avengers. Much Ado continues the Cinematheque’s Shakespeare 400 series on Friday and Saturday (July 1 and 2).

The Last Waltz  
Martin Scorsese’s document of the Band’s star-studded final show is double-billed with Stop Making Sense, Jonathan Demme’s towering record of the Talking Heads at the peak of their powers. See (and hear) the ’70s become the ’80s at the Rio Theatre on Friday (July 1).

Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure
Pee-wee sets off to find his bike once again in the first of Cineplex’s summer-long festival of family films, offered at low, low prices (only $2.99!). Tell ’em Large Marge sent ya at the Cineplex Odeon International Village and the Park Theatre on Saturday (July 2).  

Zardoz

Completely ignoring the fact that one day we’d have Google image search, Sean Connery kits up in that red loincloth/ponytail combo for John Boorman’s surpassingly silly 1974 sci-fi flick. While nominally based on The Wizard of Oz, Zardoz (geddit?) more trenchantly depicts a 23rd-century Earth on which gauzily dressed elites maintain control by violently pitting a savage underclass against itself, meaning Boorman was out by about 200 years. Connery is the “Exterminator” who infiltrates the secret society and shows them the Chicago Way. Bring your stoned head to the Rio Theatre on Sunday (July 3).