Ty's weekend movie picks for Friday, October 10

Tolkien maniacs dust off your halberds and brush up on your Elvish: The Brattle will be hosting a "Compleat Lord of the Rings" special engagement starting tonight (Friday) and continuing through Sunday, when all three films in Peter Jackson's Hobbitalooza will unspool in a row. Extended "director's cut" versions, natch.

Also at the Brattle tomorrow (Saturday) morning, a rare chance to see 1959's "Good Morning" (Ohayo)" (photo above), by the Japanese master Yasujiro Ozu, on the big screen. It's free, there's some pointy-head critic named Ty Burr speaking before the screening and taking questions after, but the reason to come is to rejoice in this wonderful, wise Technicolor comedy about children and parents in post-war Tokyo. If you're planning on going, I can't stress this enough: Bring your kids. My own daughters have watched "Good Morning" countless times; it's one of their all-time favorites. Yes, it's subtitled. Yes, there are fart jokes.

At the Harvard Film Archive, three films by the talented Argentine director Lucrecia Martel, including 2005's "The Holy Girl" and the new "The Headless Woman," which gets its only post-Cannes Boston-area playdate here. Martel's films are placid, rich, and spooky dissections of ordinary Argentineans unsettled by intimations of their unordinariness.

New releases? "Rachel Getting Married" is the one to catch this weekend. Ann Hathaway acquits herself admirably as the dysfunctional sister in a barely functioning Connecticut family, but the reason to see this is for director Jonathan Demme returning to form. His clear-sighted generosity toward all us silly humans has rarely been captured so well. Some people think the film's musical sequences go on too long but my only gripe is that Debra Winger doesn't get enough screen-time as the mom with freezer for a heart.

"Body of Lies," a Middle East/CIA thriller from Ridley Scott and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe, is mostly claptrap. Still, it's entertaining claptrap, and Crowe looks like he's having the time of his life. For older kids, there's "City of Ember," based on a young-adult fantasy novel one of my daughters liked a lot and co-starring Bill Murray as the mayor of an underground village of post-apocalypse survivors. For those seeking football-movie uplift, there's "The Express," aka the Ernie Davis story.

Also: If you're out in the Northampton mid-state area this weekend, there's a nice Robert Altman mini-fest going on. The line-up is solid and tonight you get to see "M*A*S*H*" followed by a super-rare live performance by the Feelies. This is one of the greatest examples of arts programming cognitive dissonance I've yet encountered, and it sounds unmissable. (If you do miss it, though, the Feelies will be playing the Roxy in Boston on Saturday.) Crazy rhythms indeed.