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Weekend Recommendations

You Need to Check Out 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' and 'Lucky' This Weekend

Catch up with Larry David, immerse yourself in 24 hours of queer porn cinema, and savor Harry Dean Stanton's final starring role.
Lucky promo image via Magnolia Pictures, Curb Your Enthusiasm image via HBO

Looking for some stuff to catch up on this weekend? Whether it's TV, movies, books, or anything in between—VICE has you covered. Read on for our staff recommendations on what to take in during your downtime:

Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 9

Everything sucks, and we need Curb Your Enthusiasm more than ever. Praise Jeebus, then, that Larry David's better-than-Seinfeld-yes-I-said-it comedy returns to HBO this Sunday for what is sure to be a virtuosic and peerless ninth season. Everyone loves to go on and on about how Curb defines cringe and awkward and what have you, but you know what? I'm going to go full heel here and say that, at least 75% of the time, I find David's world outlook extremely relatable. His actions aren't always sound, but what hero doesn't have their flaws? — Larry Fitzmaurice, Senior Culture Editor, Digital

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Dirty Looks's Sesión Continua NYC: a 24-Hour Porn Theatre

Anyone who knows a thing or two about movies will tell you that queer cinema has long been regarded as one of the film form's most important genres. When it comes to porn, anyone with any taste whatsoever will agree. The biggest problem, though, is that it's often hard to find the good stuff when it comes to both. Not so this weekend: starting at 11:59 PM tonight in Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighborhood, Dirty Looks, a bi-coastal queer film and video curatorial platform, is hosting a 24-hour porn theater as part of the Theirs/ours/yours: Queer Art & Film Fest. The festival itself boasts a shorts program called "Bodies In Context," an opening reception featuring works from ten different artists as well as the Toledo LGBT Archives, and a "VR Speaker Series" (which kicked off yesterday). Sesión Continua, running concurrently, will fill the 25-seat Video Revival theater with films that "recall the queer porn storefronts and picture palaces that proliferated the city before the advent of home video and the rise in LGBTQ visibility in popular cinema." Sans schedules and set attendance times, $12 will take you on a full-day trip back to the pre-VHS, pre-Giuliani days of queer sex cinema. Learn more here. —Emerson Rosenthal

Lucky

Longtime character actor John Carroll Lynch's directorial debut is beautiful and patient, a rumination on belief and finality dotted with lovely conversations from perfectly drawn characters played by a coterie of reliable suspects: David Lynch, Ron Livingston, Ed Begley, Jr., and the late, insurmountably great Harry Dean Stanton. Lucky was Stanton's last film before he passed earlier this month, and there's definitely something perfectly eerie in watching his titular aging atheist protagonist look into life's void and wonder what's beyond. Come for the fitting sendoff, and stay for his beautiful singing voice (really). — Larry Fitzmaurice, Senior Culture Editor, Digital

The Monty Python Museum

There are few true altruists on the internet, but one of them runs the Monty Python Museum YouTube channel. If you've scraped no deeper than Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Life of Brian, and a few of the more-popular episodes of Flying Circus, the timeless absurdism preserved within this museum's digital walls is must-watch viewing. The channel stores dozens of rare sketches, behind-the-scenes footage, interviews, outtakes, and specials. Yesterday, it posted the "1971 Montreux Special," which includes the classic Ministry of Silly Walks sketch as well as ever-relevant jokes about clowns and incompetent government workers. This weekend, take a load off and soak in some vintage giggles. — Beckett Mufson