The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is honoring director Kathryn Bigelow with a mid-career retrospective of her work, up to and including The Hurt Locker (2008), for which she became the first women to win an Oscar for directing. Read more

This spring, San Francisco witnesses the arrival of a masterpiece: Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán’s Nostalgia for the Light, his septuagenarian meditation on memory and history in Chile, his usual documentary subjects. But this time he travels deep into the specific to illuminate the general: broader themes of childhood, astronomy, forensic anthropology, desert geography, the passage of time—and the ability of humans to survive trauma and bring its questions into the future. Read more>>

Patricio Guzman’s beautifully filmed documentary is an exploration of Chile’s remote and pristine Atacama Desert, an arid area that attracts three groups of researchers, each searching for answers to essential human inquiries. With his refined and rather pensive narration, Guzman connects the three apparently disparate searches into a comprehensive and profoundly challenging inquiry into the origins of the universe and of humankind. Read more>>

Errol Morris has tackled miscarriages of justice and Abu Ghraib. Now, in Tabloid, he turns his attention to the case of Joyce McKinney, and this may be his final documentary. Read more>>

It’s a hard sell – this sometimes maudlin melodrama about mental illness and its destructive effect on a marriage and a family, starring one of Hollywood’s most talented yet self-destructive actors. Read more

Prompted by his mother’s decline and death, filmmaker Mark Wexler embarked on a world-wide investigation of attitudes towards longevity, including those of celebrated elders Jack LaLanne and Ray Bradbury, as well as Suzanne Somers and the world’s oldest women — she’s 115. Read more>>

There’s a culture clash when two African-American families from divergent socioeconomic backgrounds get together to celebrate a wedding on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. Read more

It’s MIDNIGHT IN PARIS. Woody Allen is back, and Owen Wilson has arrived. I wanna be there, too. Again. And Again. So will you. C’est tout!

I’ve been to Paris, France and Paris, Paramount. I prefer Paris, Paramount,” director Ernst Lubitsch famously remarked. And while on a Hollywood backlot Lubitsch confected an irresistible, glittering city of lights (see his “Trouble in Paradise” and Ninotchka”), ain’t nothing like the real thing target=”new”>Read more>>

Among the flock of family films comes the fine-feathered saga of Blu (voiced by Jesse Eisenberg), a rare blue macaw snatched from his exotic rainforest home by poachers before he can learn to use his wings. Winding up in a snowy Moose Lake, Minnesota, he’s rescued by young, bespectacled Linda (voiced by Leslie Mann). Because he was so young when he was domesticated, Blu never learns to fly. Read more