MORE MOVIES: THIS WEEKEND AND BEYOND. On Wednesday I identified The Scarlet Empress as my movie pick for this weekend. I'll stand by that, but also note some other (but not all other) great choices for this great movie weekend.

If you hurry, this afternoon at MoMA you can immerse yourself in The Godfather and The Godfather, Part II play MoMA starting at 2:00 pm. Then, on Sunday, there's Taxi Driver (1:00 pm), Laura (2:30 pm), Do the Right Thing (3:30 pm), Advise and Consent (4:30 pm), and, around sunset, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (6:00 pm).

The Viva Pedro Almodovar festival at Lincoln Plaza (it's also scheduled for BAM and the Huntington Cinema Arts Centre later this year) continues with Matador. The Quad, site of a time-delay Viva Pedro, is one week behind, showing Almodovar's Law of Desire. (Years ago, The Other Dave and I saw both films--which feature Antonio Banderas circa 1987--on a poorly attended double feature at the Quad. Neither is currently available on DVD in the US region.)

Then there's the Janus retrospective at The Walter Reade Theater. This weekend you can hardly go wrong with any of the choices--if you can get a ticket and get past the construction. We're talking Jules and Jim, The Rules of the Game, The Seventh Seal, Children of Paradise, Beauty and the Beast, Knife in the Water, and Cria Cuervos.

And then there's Hollywood Classics at The Ziegfeld. I'm pissed that I didn't know about this in time to plug Citizen Kane and some other golden oldies, but what's past is past. This week the big-screen rotation covers Jaws, Back to the Future, and E.T., but I'm more excited about what comes after that. During the week of October 6-12 you can see Cabaret and West Side Story (and sing along to Grease). After that comes Hitchcock: Dial M for Murder, Rear Window, and The Birds (my current favorite of the three).

Photo: David Marc Fischer