Friday’ openings redux: A bit of Austen lite

And an addition has been included in the mainstream movie lineup for Friday. The added opening is as follows:

“Love & Friendship” : Whit Stillman (“The Last Days of Disco”) gives us his comic take on a Jane Austen-type tale of manners. Kate Beckinsale stars as a scheming woman who invades a household intent on matchmaking, both for her daughter and herself. No doubt they drink tea, too.

Of course, if you’re ambitious, you might drive to Seattle to try and catch a 7 p.m. screening of “Chimes at Midnight,” the restored copy of Orson Welles’ 1960 film that is a compilation of several Shakespeare plays. Welles’ intent was to build a play around the character of Falstaff, who was the young King Henry V’s drinking buddy. For more information, click here .

But whatever you do, go see a movie. And enjoy.