In Theaters
There is a lot we recommend at the movie theaters this weekend -- Juno, The Savages, I’m Not There, and Atonement, but if you don’t feel like getting out a trio of new DVD releases from Criterion offers you an A-list film festival in your living room. First there’s a fantastic new release of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, a film revolutionary in the ‘60s that still feels fresh, radical and fun today. The new and slightly retimed transfer of Terrence Malick’s powerful, evocative Days of Heaven is a revelation. And, finally, Criterion has released in a lavish box-set the complete 13-and-a-half-hour Berlin Alexanderplatz, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s melancholy epic based on the Alfred Doblin novel. Pick up all three, plan your meal breaks, and there’s a weekend of movie heaven for you..

Filmmaker Recommends
Filmmaker highly recommends Jennifer Venditti’s doc Billy the Kid, which opens through IFC Films this week. Here is Venditti telling our own Nick Dawson about finding the subject of her film while she was casting Carter Smith’s short Bugcrush at a Maine high school. She spotted Billy sitting alone at the lunchroom: “I walked over there, he opened his mouth and I was like, “My God, this kid is amazing! Why is the whole school not sitting at his table?” All the kids were like, “Oh, he's so weird. He's dangerous, he freaks out.” And then the teachers would all say things like, “Oh, he's really complicated, he has emotional disabilities.” I started to think, "No one's going to tell me about what he has or what he is," and I didn't care anymore: I wanted to understand the world through his experience.”