Movies opening in North Texas this weekend (December 2)

Foreign film lovers: Can you say Goethe? (I thought you could.)

Who would have thunk it?

Trailer for Young Goethe In Love

There's not a single new Hollywood film opening in North Texas this Friday. I can't remember the last time that happened — or didn't happen, depending on how you look at it.

In fact, the only new film of any ilk (Hollywood, independent, or otherwise) making its area debut this Friday is a German import called Young Goethe In Love, directed by Philipp Stölzl, complete with English subtitles and replete with literary references.

After Saturday's 5:50 p.m. showing at the Angelika Dallas, Dr. Jacob-Ivan Eidt, chairman of the Department of Modern Languages and Literature at the University of Dallas, will conduct a Q-and-A — which is sure to be ausgezeichnet!

For those of you who missed it in regular release (or if you loved it enough to see it again), this weekend's midnight show at the Inwood will be Attack the Block.

While I didn't really get it (for reasons both linguistic and, perhaps, generational), a lot of people had glowing praise for this street-thugs-save-the-world sci-fi actioner.

The two-night Alex Cox event continues Friday at the Texas Theatre, with a double feature of two of his more obscure films: Highway Patrolman (El patrullero) and Straight to Hell.

Auteur Cox himself will be on hand to host a Q-and-A following each of the features; he will also be hawking signed posters and selling DVDs.

Special pricing note: You can purchase tix to see both movies for $15, or spend just $9 on one or the other.

Also at the Texas Theatre this weekend:

House of Boys (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday)
A TEDxSMU simulcast viewing party (Saturday from 10 a.m. — 6 p.m.)
Sergio Leone's The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, in 35mm print format (Saturday & Sunday)
Walker, another Alex Cox opus (Sunday only)

And that, as they say, is all she wrote!

(At least, until next Friday.)