306 Hollywood (NR)

Tasked with clearing out their late grandmother’s house in Hillside, New Jersey, siblings Elan and Jonathan Bogarín approach the chore as if they were archeologists, sorting through the woman’s possessions to see what they reveal about middle-class Jewish-American life from the mid- to late-20th century. more...

• by Ben Sachs
• Tags: Documentary

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311: Enlarged to Show Detail 3 (NR)

Wayne Price directed this concert documentary about the rock band 311. more...

• Tags: Concert documentary, Music, Music documentary

40 Years in the Making: The Magic Music Movie (NR)

Television comedy writer and producer Lee Aronsohn directed this documentary about his attempts to find the members of the long-disbanded Colorado group Magic Music and to convince them to perform a final concert. more...

• Tags: Documentary, Music

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The 5 Browns: Digging Through Darkness

Ben Niles (Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037) directed this unsettling and powerful documentary about the Brown siblings, five piano prodigies (three female, two male) who became famous in the classical music world when they were still in their teens. more...

• by Ben Sachs
• Tags: Documentary

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This Super-8 feature by Boston-area filmmaker Luther Price is at once an essay on failure and a barely coherent mess, its violations of narrative grammar so consistent that they become a statement. more...

• by Fred Camper

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A.I. Artificial Intelligence (PG-13)

A collaboration between the living Steven Spielberg and the late Stanley Kubrick seems appropriate to a project that reflects profoundly on the differences between life and nonlife. more...

• by Jonathan Rosenbaum

A Is for Auschwitz

Sixteen-year-old Zach Smilovitz of suburban Detroit interviews his grandparents, both Holocaust survivors. more...

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A retooling by Miramax (new beginning, new ending, new title) of a 1993 French movie called Fausto—a first feature by Remy Duchemin about a 17-year-old orphan whose life changes when he becomes the apprentice of an eccentric Jewish tailor (Jean Yanne). more...

A Lawyer Walks Into a Bar . . .

Too slick and sound-bitey for its own good, this documentary about U.S. lawyers aims for the smart-aleck tone of its title while throwing out punchy statistics as if it were a PowerPoint presentation. more...

• by Jonathan Rosenbaum

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A nous la liberte

Rene Clair's 1931 satire on industrialization was overshadowed for many years by Chaplin's Modern Times and then forgotten, though its recent release on DVD has given it a second—and well-deserved—lease on life. more...

• by Jonathan Rosenbaum

A Trip to the Moon

Georges Méliès's classic 1902 imagining of a journey to the moon—the one in which the space capsule lodges in the eye of the Man in the Moon. more...

• Tags: Adventure, Science fiction

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The A-Team (PG-13)

"Sex and the City 2 for dudes"? more...

• by Cliff Doerksen
• Tags: Action, Adventure

AAIC: Leonardo da Vinci (NR)

Art & Architecture in Cinema presents an exploration of the works and personality of one of the most inventive artists in the world. more...

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AAIC: Monet to Matisse (NR)

Phil Grabsky (In Search of Beethoven) directed this documentary about artists' use of the garden as revealed in exhibits at the the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Royal Academy in London. more...

AAIC: Renoir -- The Unknown Artist (NR)

An exclusive look inside the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia, which hold one of the largest Renoir collections in the world. more...