THE DAILY RUNDOWN is a quick look at just a few of the cool screenings and film events happening around the U.S. every day. It is not intended to be an exhaustive, comprehensive list, but a sampling of the terrific genre cinema available to check out at your local art house, megaplex, film society, and repertory theaters.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 2017 (All show times are local)

The Mario Bava retrospective at Quad Cinema in New York continues with 35mm screenings of FOUR TIMES THAT NIGHT at 5:00 pm, BLACK SABBATH at 7:00 pm, and BARON BLOOD at 9:00 pm. Tickets and info can be found here.

UPSTREAM COLOR, Shane Carruth’s amazing follow up to PRIMER, is playing at the Alamo Drafthouse in San Francisco at 10:30 pm. Tickets and info can be found here.

Film Bar in Phoenix is showing Spike Jonze’s alternately funny, beautiful, and subtly terrifying HER at 7:00 pm. Tickets and info can be found here.

Two Georges Méliès silent shorts are showing at Comfort Station in Chicago at 8:20 pm. A TRIP TO THE MOON and THE IMPOSSIBLE VOYAGE are screening with a live score provided by Digital Gnosis. This is a free show. All info can be found here.

Terrific music documentary A BAND CALLED DEATH is playing at the Alamo Drafthouse in Denver at 7:00 pm. Tickets and info can be found here.

Paul Naschy stars in THE MUMMY’S REVENGE, playing at the Joy Cinema and Pub in Tigard, OR at 9:15 pm. Admission is free, but you must be over 21. All info can be found here.

If the new episodes of Twin Peaks are not giving you enough of a fix, you can catch the deeply unsettling TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME at the Senator Theatre in Baltimore at 8:00 pm. Tickets and info can be found here.

If you know of an under-the-radar theater or film society regularly putting together repertory screenings or special events, feel free to let me know on Twitter!

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Matt Wedge is a writer, film fanatic, and cat herder whose obsession with the films of Larry Cohen and sticking up for unfairly-maligned cinematic bombs can be read at his site, Obsessive Movie Nerd. You can follow him on Twitter at @TheWedgeSerpent.

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Tags: a band called death, A Trip to the Moon, Baron Blood, Black Sabbath, Digital Gnosis, Four Times That Night, Georges Melies, Her, mario bava, Paul Naschy, Primer, Shane Carruth, Spike Jonze, The Impossible Voyage, The Mummy's Revenge, Twin Peaks, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, upstream color