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.
The Canadian speed-metal band, fresh from its Wednesday gig at Metro, drops in for Friday screenings of the critically acclaimed "Anvil! The Story of Anvil" at Music Box. Also this week: "The Informers," final weeks of the Latino and Palestine film festivals, and new reviews by Cliff Doerksen, Andrea Gronvall, Josh Katzman, and Michael Wilmington.