MONDAY, MAY 20, 2013                             7:30 PM

"No" is a terrific film, and word got out very quickly at last year's Cannes Film Festival, where the Chilean docudrama deservedly made a lot of noise even though it played outside the main competition categories. No less than "Argo," "Lincoln" and "Zero Dark Thirty," director Pablo Larrain's achievement feeds the debate regarding truth and fiction and how much of the former a viewer needs when watching a movie that is, by definition, the latter.

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MONDAY, JUNE 10, 2013                             7:30 PM

What makes a coming-of-age movie work? Lord knows we get enough of them: overripe period pieces in which a filmmaker re-creates a precise cultural moment and his or her adolescent struggles with parents and injustice and best friends and sex. Usually, it comes down to the metaphysics of personal observation, which means the secondary characters can be well drawn while the protagonist remains an underwritten blank. It’s hard to see yourself when you’re looking through your own eyes.

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MONDAY, JUNE 24, 2013                             7:30 PM

The woman sits in a park, legs crossed, smoking, relaxed. Two men watch her from a window above the park, and they discuss her, looking down on her. "If she were six, you would say she was sulky," one of the men says. "Since her incarceration, her group of friends has been destroyed." She is meeting the two men, and one says, "She won't come in a moment before it's time."...

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MONDAY, MAY 6, 2013                             7:30 PM

According to Martin Scorsese, “cinema is a matter of what’s in the frame, and what’s out.” The Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami applies this axiom with particular rigor. In the first scenes of Mr. Kiarostami’s latest feature, “Like Someone in Love,” we are very much aware of what is not in the frame.

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