I spent most of last week music-festing and I’m playing hurried catch-up with the cinema scene today, but here are a couple of quick hits on screenings of note this week:

• Carbon Arc Cinema this Friday has the Slovak-Czech satiric drama The Teacher, “a sardonic, richly seriocomic morality play that uses a delicate touch to explore why communism never seems to work out in the long run.”
• Cineplex Park Lane for Halloween this weekend has the 1931 classics Dracula and Frankenstein, and Park Lane and Dartmouth Crossing on Sunday continue the 2017 Studio Ghibli retrospective with the English dub of the Hayao Miyazaki classic Spirited Away.

•  In theatres, notable
  • The Florida Project, Sean Baker, USA, 2017, 115 minutes [92] — Halifax showtimes
• Halifax screenings this week:
  • Wednesday (Oct 25) — My Fair Lady, Cineplex Park Lane, 7:30pm & Dartmouth Crossing, 7:00pm, $6.99. George Cukor, USA, 1964, 170 minutes.
  • Friday (Oct 27) — The Teacher, Carbon Arc Cinema @ the Museum of Natural History, 7pm, $7. Jan Hřebejk, Slovakia/Czech Republic, 2016, 102 minutes.
    — Dracula (1931), Cineplex Park Lane, 7pm, $6.99. Tod Browning, USA, 1931, 90 minutes.
    — Frankenstein (1931), Cineplex Park Lane, 3:45pm & 9pm, $6.99. James Whale, USA, 1931, 90 minutes.
  • Saturday (Oct 28) — Frankenstein (1931), Cineplex Park Lane, 7pm, $6.99. James Whale, USA, 1931, 90 minutes.
    — Dracula (1931), Cineplex Park Lane, 9pm, $6.99. Tod Browning, USA, 1931, 90 minutes.
  • Sunday (Oct 29) — Spirited Away, Cineplex Park Lane & Dartmouth Crossing, 12:55pm, $12.95. Hayao Miyazaki, Japan, 2001, 125 minutes.
    — Dracula (1931), Cineplex Park Lane, 7pm, $6.99. Tod Browning, USA, 1931, 90 minutes.
    — Frankenstein (1931), Cineplex Park Lane, 9:15pm, $6.99. James Whale, USA, 1931, 90 minutes.