The Mother and the Whore  Aside from the small handful of French critics who poured scorn on The Mother and the Whore when it was released in 1973, nobody has ever regretted spending three-and-a-half hours in the company of Jean Eustache’s masterpiece. Jean-Pierre Léaud is the man at the centre of the film’s love triangle, considered scandalous even by Parisian standards. The Cinematheque brings a 35mm print to Vancouver for a three-day run starting Saturday (October 15).

Home Movie Day 2016  With Kodak about to launch its first Super 8mm camera since 1982, the timing of this year’s Home Movie Day couldn’t be much sweeter. Bring your old family films, your experimental works, and those “art” movies you made back in the day for inspection, preservation advice, and public screening at the Western Front’s Grand Luxe Hall (303 East 8th Avenue) on Saturday (October 15). More information is at www.avbcheritage.wordpress.com/.

Train to Busan  Straight outta South Korea, where they really know how to make a scary movie, not to mention a scary movie set on a train, the best zombie flick in roughly forever gets a sure-to-be-packed screening at the Rio Theatre on Monday (October 17). Miss it at your peril, gore hounds! 

Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World  DOXA connects with New West with this screening of Werner Herzog’s predictably offbeat look at our wired world. See it at the Mediated Visions: Film, Art and Technology event at the Anvil Centre Theatre on Tuesday (October 18).

Frankenstein  It’s impossible to overpraise James Whale’s 1931 film, screening at the Cinematheque on Sunday (October 16), but we’ll try. Boris Karloff stars as the monster, in a role that would haunt the actor forever while establishing a pinnacle for the genre, if not early Hollywood itself.