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By J. HOBERMAN
The Saturday-morning CBS series “Pee-wee’s Playhouse,” now in a Shout! Factory collection, was a riot of invention that alternated between the sweet and the risqué.
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Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain discuss “Interstellar”; its director, Christopher Nolan; and the humor of physicists.
“E-Team,” a documentary, follows the high-risk work of four globe-trotting investigators for the organization Human Rights Watch.
The Saturday-morning CBS series “Pee-wee’s Playhouse,” now in a Shout! Factory collection, was a riot of invention that alternated between the sweet and the risqué.
In “Force Majeure,” the director Ruben Ostlund observes how a father’s terror during an avalanche damages his relationships and self-image.
Manfred Kirchheimer’s documentaries are getting a new look, with “Stations of the Elevated” now having a theatrical run.
The new service, which is expected to start by June, will emphasize a curated selection of films intended for an art house audience.
Suha Arraf, who directed “Villa Touma,” identified her film as Palestinian at the Venice Film Festival. Israel, which helped finance it, objected.
The director Jorge R. Gutierrez and the art director Paul J. Sullivan describe how Mexican folk art influenced the look of “The Book of Life.”
In Disney Fantasia: Music Evolved, developers at the video game company Harmonix build on Walt Disney’s classic 1940 animated film.
In making judgments about children’s film viewing, parents are quickly desensitized by their own exposure to scenes depicting sex and violence, according to a study.
Kaitlyn Dever talks about new films, “Men, Women & Children” and “Laggies.”
The recent beheadings of Western journalists in the Middle East provide stark real-life context for “1,000 Times Good Night.”
Contemplating the inner life of gorillas.
Bereavement plays a part in several current museum exhibitions, on television shows and in films.
Laura Poitras’s documentary “Citizenfour,” a provocative and admiring look at Edward J. Snowden, is being backed by companies led by Obama allies.
Mr. Zorn is programming a five-part monthly series of films at Japan Society, with a focus on less familiar Japanese films.
Brad Pitt returns to Nazi killing in “Fury,” this time leading a tank crew during the vicious, bloody final battles of World War II.
Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s comedy “Birdman” stars Michael Keaton as a onetime movie superhero betting his career on a strange Broadway play.
Justin Simien’s “Dear White People” explores the hypocrisy, awkward good will and unwitting racism that hamper relations between white and black students at a fictional Ivy League school.
In the dyspeptic comedy “Listen Up Philip,” Jason Schwartzman plays a shabby, self-loathing novelist whose agonies affect everyone around him.
In “Camp X-Ray,” an Army private newly assigned to the Guantánamo Bay prison develops some empathy for a detainee.
A love triangle forms among three lifelong friends who live in a Mexican-flavored fantasy village in “The Book of Life,” an animated film.
“The Best of Me,” a Michael Hoffman film about fate and second chances, stars James Marsden and Michelle Monaghan.
“Rudderless,” the directorial debut of William H. Macy, centers on a father and his son’s music.
“Relationship Status: It’s Complicated” is a comedy that at times exudes a Neil Simon vibe.
“Eternity: The Movie,” a parody of a music biography, tells the story of a duo with a suspicious resemblance to Hall and Oates.
“The Hacker Wars” surveys the federal government’s legal pursuit of hackers and journalists who have exposed security flaws and surveillance of citizens.
“Watchers of the Sky” examines genocide and the work of the human-rights pioneer Raphael Lemkin and others to combat it.
“The Tale of the Princess Kaguya” is the first animated feature in over a decade directed by Isao Takahata.
“Young Ones,” starring Michael Shannon, merges a western with a science-fiction tale.
In “Summer of Blood,” an offensive and unattractive young man finds his dating life transformed by an encounter with a vampire.
In the Australian drama “Felony,” a police officer gets into a drunk-driving accident, which leads to an investigation.
The documentary “A Requiem for Syrian Refugees” chronicles the lives of people pushed into a northern Iraq camp.
In Simon Brand’s film “Default,” created from found footage, a pirate who wants to be called “terrorist” makes an unusual proposition.
Ann Hui’s “The Golden Era” recounts the short, unhappy life of the Chinese author Xiao Hong, who wrote several acclaimed novels.
Volker Schlöndorff’s “Diplomacy” imagines an evening’s conversation that saved Paris from being blown up by a retreating Nazi army in 1944.
“The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga” entwines a folk tale of that title with evocative footage of contemporary Eastern European locales.
“Addicted,” a film by Bille Woodruff, is a cautionary tale of a restless businesswoman who seems to have it all but descends into sex addiction.
The director discusses a scene from “Birdman or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance,” with Michael Keaton and Edward Norton.
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The writer and director of “Whiplash” discusses the opening sequence from his film.
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