Holiday Weekend Movie Forecast: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Revolutionary Road

Oh, Meryl Streep, we'd watch you read from the phone book. But thankfully, we don't have to settle for that; today we can see you in John Walter's (How to Draw a Bunny) documentary Theater of War, which covers a Public Theater production in Central Park of Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children, translated by Tony Kushner. Manohla Dargis at the Times says the film is "tough to summarize, which is part of its appeal. Because while the movie is about a particular staging of Mother Courage it is also about the war in Iraq, theater (and bicycle riding) as social protest, the necessity and futility of art, and the agonizing human failing that Mother Courage gives voice to in 'The Song of the Great Capitulation.'"