To-do: The “to do” list

Where The Wild Things Are's Max Records
THURSDAY
Spike Jonze’s Where The Wild Things Are opens.
Steven Soderbergh’s comedy The Informant (starring Matt Damon) opens.
Paranormal Activity opens.
Zombieland (starring Jesse Eisenberg) opens.
Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time In the West (1968) is playing at the Astor until Saturday.
Japanese Film Festival is running until Tuesday.

The Informant's Matt Damon
ACMI presents a Focus on Hopper’s America which runs until December 13.
Richard Donner’s The Goonies (1985) at Rooftop.
FRIDAY
Freaky Fridays presents Alejandro Jodorowsky’s El Topo (1971) at ACMI.
SATURDAY
Stanley Kramer’s On the Beach (from 1959 and starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire and Anthony Perkins) at ACMI.

Zombieland's Jesse Eisenberg and Woody Harrelson
Rob Reiner’s Stand By Me (1986) at Rooftop.
SUNDAY
Marcel Carne’s Les Enfants du Paradis (1945) at the Astor.
Komaneko: The Curious Cat at ACMI.
Billy Wilder’s The Seven Year Itch (1955) at Rooftop.
MONDAY
Ron Howard’s Willow (1988) at the Astor.
TUESDAY
Catherine Hardwicke’s Twilight (2008) at Rooftop.

The Seven Year Itch's Marilyn Monroe
WEDNESDAY
Cinematheque presents Larissa Shepitko’s Heat (1967), Andrei Tarkovsky’s The Steamroller & the Violin (1961) and Shepitko’s Wings (1966) at ACMI.
Van Diemen’s Land and Park Chan-wook’s Thirst (from 2009, we discussed it here) at Astor.
Joel Schumacher’s The Lost Boys (1987) at Rooftop.