Weeklong Runs & Events

This suspenseful WWII chronicle portrays its colorful hero with a grounded sense of reality, and grants the Nazis a rare psychological complexity. MAX MANUS is based on a true story that runs counter to the more usual tales of resistance exploits. Aksel Hennie, currently regarded as the best Norwegian actor of his generation, plays Max as a brash youth whose early cult fame owed to a daring escape following the bungling of an underground mission. A wiser but no less brash Max develops an intuitive talent for sabotage, wreaking havoc on the German fleet, but at a mounting personal price. In Norwegian, German, and English with English subtitles. 35mm. (BS)

The first film by the legendary Banksy is as witty and irreverent as the incognito artist's guerrilla graffiti pieces. When L.A. videographer Guetta's extensive footage of Banksy and other street artists fails to produce a coherent film, Banksy turns the tables and makes a film about Guetta, who, in a further switcheroo, decides to become a street artist himself! Stunning footage of stealth artists in action (including Shepard Fairey and Neckface, as well as Banksy's notorious Disneyland tag) is ingeniously folded into a slippery satire of the unholy relationship between art and celebrity. 35mm. (MR)

Rudolf Gelbard, an Austrian whose youth was defined by the Holocaust, relates the effects of Hitler’s 1938 rise to power and the subsequent persecution of the Jews from the point of view of the child he was at the time. Subsequently imprisoned in Theresienstadt concentration camp, he was one of fewer than 200 survivors from among the 15,000 children who passed through the camp. Revisiting familiar sites, Gelbard gives first-person witness to events including Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, which resulted in the burning of Vienna’s largest synagogue. Presented in cooperation with the Consulate General of Austria, Chicago. In German with English subtitles. DVCAM video. (BS)

The seven-year itch isn’t even a faint tickle for young marrieds Annie and Darren, until the talk at a boozy confab with pals takes a libidinous turn, leaving them nonplused at just how non-happening their sex life has been. Pillow talk generates a daring proposal: they can each take one night off from their vows, no questions asked. The script is a tour de force of dramatic foreplay as the two fantasize the possible erotic rewards, but reality involves withdrawal pains after Darren targets a buxom barista and Annie makes the moves on a mixologist. HDCAM video. (BS)

Ace documentary director Wiseman (TITICUT FOLLIES, HIGH SCHOOL) often digs up dirt on the institutions he scrutinizes through the fearless eye of his camera. That’s clearly not the case with LA DANSE, a marvelously mesmerizing look at the intricate inner workings of the Paris Opera Ballet, from the treacherous arena of fundraising to the magic of the stage. Dance aficionados will be in heaven as stars including Laetitia Pujol, Marie-Agnès Gillot, Benjamin Pech, and Delphine Moussin hone their interpretations of new works in rehearsal, and bring them full-blown to the audience. Works seen include Paquita, Genus, The House of Bernarda Alba, The Nutcracker, Médée, and more. In English and French with English subtitles. HDCAM video. (BS)

Paranoia, greed, jealousy, and infidelity mark this low-key thriller for the Internet age. The story riffs on REAR WINDOW as Travis and Rob, cynical bottom-feeders who liquidate the property of people who die without heirs, become obsessed with a surveillance-cam website they discover in the course of their latest job clearing out a trash-filled suburban house. Amber, Trevor’s skanky former girlfriend and Rob’s present fiancée, plants seeds of discontent, but images of the escalating activities of a hooded madman who appears to be preparing a terrorist attack on multiple U.S. cities trumps macho rivalry up to the double-twist finale. HDCAM video. (BS)