What to See This Week

Edvard Munch (Cinema Village)

Dense, witty, and splendidly confrontational, Peter Watkins's 1976 masterpiece is a biopic like no other. Over the course of three ceaselessly gripping hours, the life and times of the tortured Norwegian artist are rendered through a dazzlingly complex montage that combines recreation, faux-documentary, criticism, and original scholarship. Held over for just a few more days, this rereleased rarity, one of the most lucid films ever made about an artist, is screening in a gorgeous new 35 mm print.

Tropical Malady (IFC Center)

Apichatpong Weerasethakul's formalist fever dream about love, storytelling, and a shape-shifting shaman confirms his position as the most exciting new filmmaker in the world.

Land of the Dead (general release) Mordantly funny, savagely satirical, deliciously revolting: zombie-flick perfection.