According to the Times's A.O. Scott, Catalan director Albert Serra's film Birdsong is "less a retelling of the Nativity story than a dream about it, filtered in lovely black and white through a sensibility that recalls Luis Buñuel and Samuel Beckett... At times their bickering suggests the stooges more than the magi, as they negotiate deserts, thickets, mountainsides and the recalcitrance of their own slow, bulky bodies. But there is also a quiet, reverent grace in the way Mr. Serra films these serious, clownish men, treating them as curious features of the natural world... Birdsong is a quiet, contemplative, sometimes inscrutable film, which finds strangeness in a familiar story — and also in the world itself, from which Mr. Serra’s camera coaxes an obdurate, enigmatic beauty."
Click on the film stills above for more reviews and details on this week's new releases and repertory selections. This week we're also looking at An American Affair, Dillinger is Dead, Examined Life, Birdsong, Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience, Christmas on Mars: A Fantastical Film Freak out Featuring the Flaming Lips, and The Fly.






Gretchon Mol wins that battle every time.
Hahaha, good review on Jonas Brothers 3D
Harrison Ford is looking more and more like Larry King.