On Wednesday night Tim Burton gave the Film Society of Lincoln Center a 17-minute taste of Sweeney Todd, his film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s macabre musical. The 1979 Broadway hit was inspired by Victorian folklore about a crazed London barber who slits his customers’ throats and, in some versions of the story, colludes with his lover to bake the corpses into meat pies – which become wildly successful! (Ah, the culinary possibilities before rogue......

Snow Cake (directed by Marc Evans): A diagnosis of autism is usually characterized by a person having impaired social interaction, impaired communication and restricted or repetitive interests. The autistic character Sigourney Weaver plays in the festival favorite and new release this week, Snow Cake, has some of these traits but not others. She hates people except for her new friend Alex Hughes (Alan Rickman) and she must do her tidying rituals in the kitchen whether......