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Where to Watch Classic and Favorite Films in NYC This Week

 Moviegoers can choose from a wide range of classic and repertory films being screened throughout the city this week.
Classic Movies in the City: Oct. 6-12
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Monday, Oct. 6

Film Society Lincoln Center continues its Joseph L. Mankiewicz retrospective with Technicolor classic "The Barefoot Contessa" (1954). Ava Gardner plays a peasant dancer transformed into a Hollywood star by a powerful director (Humphrey Bogart). A single screening is scheduled for 6 p.m. at the Walter Reade Theater at 165 W. 65th St. between Amsterdam Avenue and Columbus Avenue. Purchase tickets here.

Tuesday, Oct. 7

Cate Blanchett earned an Oscar for playing a dethroned Hamptons socialite in Woody Allen's "Blue Jasmine" (2013), which is scheduled to be screened at 2:30 p.m. at Kings Bay Library in Sheepshead Bay. Admission is free. 3650 Nostrand Ave., Brooklyn.

Back at Lincoln Center, the Francesca Beale Theater will screen the Alfred Hitchcock film "Jamaica Inn" (1939) at 12:30 p.m. as part of the "Revivals" component of the 52nd New York Film Festival. Find the theater in the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center at 144 W. 65th St. between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue; purchase tickets here.

Wednesday, Oct. 8

In the West Village, Film Forum presents two screenings of "Pilgrim, Farewell" (1980), featuring Christopher Lloyd and Elizabeth Huddle, who stars as a widow struggling with terminal cancer. Director Michael Roemer will speak before the 6:20 p.m. screening. Tickets cost $7.50 for members and $13 for non-members and are available here.

Thursday, Oct. 9

Stanley Kubrick fans can head to Morningside Heights for "Paths of Glory" (1957), in which French soldiers in World War I are condemned to death for refusing their general's order. Columbia University will screen it free of charge at Buell Hall at 515 W. 116th St.

Get a head start on Halloween at the Hudson Park Library, which will screen early vampire film "Dracula" (1931) at 2 p.m. Bela Lugosi stars as the eponymous Count; Helen Chandler plays his hapless victim. 66 Leroy St. between Hudson and Seventh avenues.

It's "Hitchcocktober" at Village East Cinema. In "Rope" (1948), James Stewart stars as a professor of two murderous graduate students attempting to conceal their crime. Adapted from a play by Patrick Hamilton, the film was shot in brief segments to produce the illusion of a single, uninterrupted take. 8 p.m., 189 Second Ave. at East 12th street. Tickets may be purchased here

Howard Brookner depicted the life of the author of "Naked Lunch" William S. Burroughs in "Burroughs: The Movie" (1983), a film that began as his senior thesis at New York University. Aaron Brookner, the late filmmaker's nephew, will join several of his uncle's friends to present the screening. It's slated for 9 p.m. at the Walter Reade Theater; tickets are available here.

Friday, Oct. 10

French New Wave director Alain Resnais worked with novelist Marguerite Duras on "Hiroshima Mon Amour" (1959), a movie about a French actress' love affair with a Japanese man who escaped the bomb. Filmed in French and Japanese, it will be screened with English subtitles at Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater at 6 p.m. Buy tickets here.

Williamsburg bar/theater Videology, in partnership with the Ten Bones Theatre Company, will serve "Black and White Chocolate Blood Martinis" at a free screening of Hitchcock classic "Psycho" (1960) at 11 p.m. Videology, 308 Bedford Ave.

Even later Friday evening, Sunshine Cinema will present the director's cut of the classic thriller "Alien," starring Sigourney Weaver as part of a space crew battling extraterrestrial assailants. Catch it around midnight 143 E. Houston St. between First and Second avenues on the Lower East Side. 

Saturday, Oct. 11

At 7 p.m. at the Chain Theater in Long Island City, new film series Cinema Under the Influence will kick off with a chilling double feature. They'll show David Lynch classic "Blue Velvet" (1986) at 8 p.m., followed by an intermission, then a screening of "Halloween" (1978). Tickets to the entire event cost $15 and are available at the door or online here. Admission includes beer provided by Queens Brewery. 21-28 45th Road.

In West Harlem, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture presents director Roberta Durrant's film "Felix" (2013), a family-friendly flick about a young boy who longs to become a saxophonist like his father. Admission is free, but pre-registration is required. Seats are limited. 1 p.m. in the Langston Hughes Auditorium at the Shomburg Center, 515 Malcolm X Blvd.

In the Bronx, the borough's Library Center will screen two vintage films exploring the development of Mexican-American music: "Chulas Fronteras" (1976) and "Del Mero Corazon" (1979). 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Both films are in Spanish and will be screened with Spanish and English subtitles. 310 East Kingsbridge Road.

Sunday, Oct. 12

Former Disney rival Max Fleischer returns to the big screen in Film Forum's "Film Forum Jr." screening of "Hoppity Goes to Town" (1941) a feature-length animated film about a grasshopper hero returning home to his garden friends. 11 a.m. All tickets cost $7.50.

Williamsburg "cinema eatery" Nitehawk Cinema adds to the day's family-friendly theme with a screening of "Monster House" (2006), a creepy animated Halloween movie suitable for kids ages 8 and older. Tickets cost $9 to $11 and are available here. 12:15 p.m. 136 Metropolitan Ave., Brooklyn.