GOOD MORNING, MARCO
MARCO Bellocchio’s provocative films don’t get many screenings in New York, a condition that BAM Rose Cinemas is helping to correct with a mini-retro.
The tribute includes a question-and-answer session with the 64-year-old Italian filmmaker after Saturday’s 7 p.m. screening of “Good Morning, Night” (2003).
That’s his politically charged drama about the kidnapping and murder of Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigade terrorists in 1978.
Bellocchio’s audacious feature debut, “Fists in the Pocket” (1965), unspools Wednesday.
Lou Castel is outstanding as a teenage epileptic driven to obscene acts of violence in a work that BAM film publicist Molly Gross calls “amazing on all levels.” Critic Elliott Stein will impart words of wisdom after the 6:50 p.m. showing.
Also in the series, running through March 28, are “My Mother’s Smile” (2002), “The Conviction” (1990), “The Prince of Homburg” (1997) and “The Nanny” (1999).
BAM Rose Cinemas is on Lafayette Avenue, off Flatbush Avenue, in Brooklyn; http://www.bam.org.
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The Museum of Modern Art goes into its vaults this week to show some recent acquisitions.
At 8:15 p.m. Wednesday, it’s the Coen brothers’ black-and-white noir tribute “The Man Who Wasn’t There” (2001).
Billy Bob Thornton outdoes himself as a small-town barber who becomes involved in a murder.
That’s followed at 2 p.m. Thursday by Alexander Payne’s funny “Election” (1999), with a grand performance by Reese Witherspoon as an overachiever running for class president.
Matthew Broderick plays a teacher determined to stop her.
Both unreel at the Gramercy Theater, 23rd Street and Lexington Avenue; http://www.moma.org.
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Could it be? After numerous postponements over two years, the Hong Kong actioner “Shaolin Soccer” appears ready to open here April 2.
Bowing to pressure, distributor Miramax will present the flick with subtitles rather than dubbed English. But it will run a lot shorter than the original HK edition.
Well, you can’t have everything.
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Elsewhere on the Hong Kong martial-arts front, “Taoism Drunkard” (1983) will unreel next Sunday at 2 p.m. at Anthology Film Archives (Second Avenue and Second Street).
Subway Cinema, which is sponsoring the screening, describes “Taoism Drunkard” as “the weirdest martial-arts movie every made.” Wow!
V.A. Musetto is film editor of The Post. He can be e-mailed at vam@nypost.com.

