“54” (Director’s Cut), Film Society of Lincoln Center, June 23Mark Christopher’s 1998 dance-floor epic about the famed club known for its even more famed door policy arrives via an extended cut featuring roughly 44 minutes of extra material not seen in the original theatrical version of the film. Allegedly, test audiences did not react warmly to some of the scenes involving sex and drugs, and the studio made Christopher cut large chunks of the film and re-shoot crucial scenes, including an entirely new ending. Featuring comedian Mike Myers as Studio 54 founder Steve Rubell in one of his most campy-serious roles.“The Apu Trilogy,” Film Forum, through June 30Satyajit Ray’s historic trilogy, charting the life of the main character from his childhood in a poor Bengal village through fatherhood, is being held over at Film Forum for another week. Audiences can’t seem to get enough. The new restoration by the Criterion Collection is one of its best, the result of many painstaking hours of piecing together different versions of Ray’s films and saving the original negatives, which were thought to be lost in a warehouse fire in London in the early 1990s.“Flaherty at MoMA: The Scent of Places,” Museum of Modern Art, through June 27The annual post-screenings at MoMA of films shown at the Flaherty Film Seminar is always one of the most exciting events of the year. (Full disclosure: this writer used to work for the Flaherty.) This time around, the series takes on the seminar’s theme this year, “The Scent of Places,” and will be screening films by Tariq Teguia, and Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, among others. These are not films that play often in New York, if at all, so this is a rare chance to see them.“Counting,” Brooklyn Academy of Music, June 27Jem Cohen’s latest work of film-poetry will be making its North American premiere as part of BAMcinemaFest, which runs through June 28. (ARTINFO spoke with Cohen about his previous film, “Museum Hours.”) The film is spread out over 15 chapters, hence the title, and Cohen visiting New York, Moscow, and Istanbul, among other places, documenting everything from street protests to the flicker of light on a friend’s face as she looks out the window of her Brooklyn apartment.“Results,” IFC Center, through June 25Writer-director Andrew Bujalski’s latest is a rom-com, really, and much slicker than his previous work (2013’s “Computer Chess” was shot with analog videocameras). But it’s still a strange affair, mostly because of the acting of Kevin Corrigan, an oddball genius, and works because of its general pleasantness. If you’re looking for the tone of a 1980s Jonathan Demme movie, this is the thing to see.
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