Michael Cera and Charlyne Yi in Paper Heart, opening this week

Opening This Week:

ADAM—Hugh Dancy stars as a young man with Asperger’s Syndrome, developing his first romantic relationship after the death of the father who sheltered him. With Rose Byrne, Peter Gallagher, Amy Irving and Frankie Faison. Directed by Max Mayer. Reviewed this issue. Eastern Hills

THE FINAL DESTINATION—Sequel. Starring Bobby Campo, Nick Zano, and Shantel VanSanten. Think we’ll ever hear, “And the award for Best Actress goes to Shantel VanSanten”? Me neither. Directed by David R. Ellis (Snakes on a Plane). Delevan Drive In, Flix, Maple Ridge, Market Arcade, Regal Elmwood, Regal Hollywood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Sunset Drive-In, Transit Drive-In

HALLOWEEN II—Sequel. Starring Scout Taylor-Compton, Tyler Mane, the director’s wife, Malcolm McDowell, Brad Dourif, Howard Hesseman, and a few others whose careers aren’t what they used to be. Directed by Rob Zombie (The Devil’s Rejects). Delevan Drive In, Flix, Maple Ridge, Market Arcade, Regal Hollywood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Sunset Drive-In, Transit Drive-In

PAPER HEART—Faux documentary in which performance artist Charlyne Yi films her search for the meaning of romance in modern America. With Michael Cera and Jake M. Johnson. Directed by Nicholas Jasenovec. Eastern Hills

TAKING WOODSTOCK—Another view of the 1969 music festival, from the point of view of the young man who found a place for the concert near his family’s motel when it was kicked out of it’s original setting. Starring Demetri Martin, Emile Hirsch, Liev Schreiber, Imelda Staunton, Henry Goodman, and Eugene Levy. Directed by Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain). Reviewed this issue. Amherst

ETC:

AWAY WE GO—Comedy-drama starring John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph as a rootless couple whose search for a place to settle and raise their first child takes them on a tour of American locations and moods. Co-starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, Allison Janney, Catherine O’Hara, Jeff Daniels, and Jim Gaffigan. Directed by Sam Mendes (Revolutionary Road). Sat 8pm; Tue 7:30pm. Fredonia Opera House, 9 Church St. Fredonia (716-679-0891) www.fredopera.org

REBECCA (1940)—Alfred Hitchcock’s adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s celebrated novel won the Oscar as Best Picture winner of 1940. Joan Fontaine stars as a timid young ladies companion who, while on vacation, meets a handsome and wealthy widower (Laurence Olivier) whose wife Rebecca had recently died in a boating accident. Fr-Sat 8 pm. The Screening Room, Northtown Plaza in Century Mall, 3131 Sheridan Drive, Amherst (837-0376) www.screeningroom.net

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975)—Dig out your fishnet stockings and bustiers and get ready to do the Time Warp again with Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Meat Loaf and Magenta. Fri midnight. Hamburg Palace Theater

SLAP SHOT (1977)—Paul Newman as an aging hockey player who revives his second-rate team by encouraging them to get into more fights on the ice. Classic seventies comedy (replete with hideous clothes) that became one of Newman’s biggest hits. Co-starring Strother Martin, Michael Ontkean, Jennifer Warren, Lindsay Crouse, Jerry Houser, Melinda Dillon, M. Emmet Walsh, and Swoosie Kurtz. Directed by George Roy Hill (The Sting). The film will be preceded by a performance on the theater’s Wurlitzer organ. Thurs Aug. 27 7pm. Riviera Theater, 67 Webster St., North Tonawanda (692-2413)

THE STING (1973)—Paul Newman and Robert Redford in their second and last collaboration, as con men working an elaborate scheme in 1930s Chicago. Oscar winner for Best Film. Co-starring Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Ray Walston, and Eileen Brennan. Directed by George Roy Hill (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid). The film will be preceded by a performance on the theater’s Wurlitzer organ. Thurs Sep. 3, 7pm Riviera Theater, 67 Webster St., North Tonawanda (692-2413)

TOP HAT (1935)—The Buffalo Film Seminar returns for a new season with the fourth and probably best of the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers films. The pot is silly, the Art Deco sets are to die for, and the songs are by Irving Berlin. Look quick for Lucille Ball in a flower shop. Tues 7 pm, Market Arcade Film and Arts Center, 639 Main St. (855-3022).