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Twin Peaks, Heathers, Glengarry Glen Ross, and more
The BSR November 2025 repertory movie roundup
Stephen Silver
The Philadelphia Film Festival is over, but the Film Society’s three-month David Lynch retrospective is in full swing. The November calendar features such Lynch highlights as Dune and Blue Velvet, compilations of his short films, and the ancillary documentaries David Lynch: The Art Life, I Know Catherine, The Log Lady, and Lynch/Oz. The long-awaited big event is set for November 14-16 with a screening of Twin Peaks: The Return.
The highlights
Twin Peaks: The Return
Episodes 1-4
Friday, November 14, 7pm
Episodes 5-11
Saturday, November 15, 12pm
Episodes 12-18
Sunday, November 16, 12pm
Film Society East
125 South 2nd Street
David Lynch’s 2017 magnum opus, Twin Peaks: The Return, was produced for television and is therefore not technically a movie, although it was named the best film of the decade in 2019 by the respected French film journal Cahiers du Cinema.
As part of the Film Society’s Lynch retrospective, all 18 episodes of The Return are coming to the big screen over the course of a single weekend, for which full weekend passes are available. The series itself runs for 1080 minutes.
The series, which made the original show’s promise of “I’ll see you again in 25 years” come true at last, featured Kyle MacLachlan as Agent Cooper—as well as two other characters—along with a large cast of new and returning faces and locations. The best-loved episode—the eighth one featuring the Trinity Test, the Platters’ “My Prayer,” and a horrifying flashback to 1956—is part of the Saturday programming.
Heathers (on 16mm)
Tuesday, November 18, 7:30pm
PhilaMOCA
531 North 12th Street
The cult classic from 1988, about murder in high school and mean girls named Heather, starred Christian Slater and Winona Ryder. Que Sera Sera, PhilaMOCA is screening it on a rare 16mm print, courtesy of Exhumed Films.
Crossing Delancey
Monday, November 17, 7:30pm
Film Society East
125 South 2nd Street
This year’s Philadelphia Jewish Film + Media Festival features a showing of Joan Micklin Silver’s 1988 New York romantic comedy, starring Amy Irving as a worldly young New Yorker and Peter Riegert as Sam, the pickle salesman from the Lower East Side who becomes her unlikely suitor.
The screening is being co-hosted by Tribe 12, which will hold a 20s and 30s Singles Mixer beforehand at Lucha Cartel.
Glengarry Glen Ross (Cinema Classics Seminar)
Monday, November 3, 6:30pm
Bryn Mawr Film Institute , 824 Lancaster Avenue, Bryn Mawr
James Foley’s 1992 film, adapted from the David Mamet play that was recently revived on Broadway, taught the world the phrase “coffee is for closers.” The film starred Jack Lemmon, Al Pacino, Ed Harris, and Alan Arkin as feuding salesmen, and Alec Baldwin as the supervisor who dresses them down in that famous opening scene.
As part of BMFI’s series We Need To Talk: Conversation on Film, a Cinema Classics Seminar will take place on the film, hosted by Andrew Owen, Ph.D.
More cinema screenings
Tales From the Crypt: Demon Knight (35mm)
Saturday, November 1
Film Society Center
The Cat and the Canary
Sunday, November 2
Lightbox Film Center
Blonde Crazy/The Asphalt Jungle
Sunday, November 2
Ambler Theater
The Terror of Mechagodzilla
Sunday, November 2
The Colonial Theatre
Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster
Monday, November 3
PhilaMOCA
Rocky IV: Rocky vs. Drago- The Ultimate Director’s Cut
Wednesday, November 5
Sunday, November 9
Fathom Events
Fargo
Wednesday, November 5
The County Theater
Breathless
Saturday, November 8
Sunday, November 9
Thursday, November 13
Wednesday, November 19
Film Society East
Dogtooth (4K)
Tuesday, November 9
The Colonial Theatre
The Gits
Wednesday, November 12
PhilaMOCA
Shoot the Piano Player
Wednesday, November 12
Tuesday, November 18
Film Society East
The Narrow Margin (Noir City Philadelphia opening night)
Friday, November 14
The Colonial Theatre
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Friday, November 14
Ritz Five
Violent Streets
Monday, November 17
PhilaMOCA
Looking For An Angel
Wednesday, November 19
Lightbox Film Center (Bok Auditorium)
Frances Ha (Cinema Classics Seminar)
Thursday, November 20
Bryn Mawr Film Institute
The Last Waltz
Saturday, November 22
The Colonial Theatre
Creepshow II (on 16mm, presented by Exhumed Films)
Friday, November 28
The Colonial Theatre
Cinderella (1950)
Saturday, November 29
Bryn Mawr Film Institute
Who Killed Teddy Bear?
Sunday, November 30
Lightbox Film Center (Bok Auditorium)
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