Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling's disintegrating marriage in "Blue Valentine" was too raw for the MPAA until distributor Harvey Weinstein intervened. It opens Friday 1/7.
The New York Times critic appears this weekend at KAM Isaiah Israel in Hyde Park. Also this week: Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "Tokyo Sonata" opens at Music Box; So Yong Kim's "Treeless Mountain" closes the Asian American Showcase; and Kelly Reichardt's "Wendy and Lucy" makes a curtain call at Facets.