A special showing in New York on Saturday will end with a question-and-answer session with some of the stars of “MASH” and the widow of the director, Robert Altman.

In “Going the Distance,” Drew Barrymore and Justin Long are young lovers struggling through a cross-country romance.

The Museum of Modern Art and TCM are revisiting “The March of Time” series, short films created from 1935 to 1951 that examine foreign affairs and social issues.

The director Zhang Yimou honors the unlikely affinity between himself and Joel and Ethan Coen with a remake of their movie “Blood Simple.”

Robert Rodriguez’s splatter comedy “Machete” is a live-action comic book with roots in the pungent swamp of 1970s B movies.

This documentary by Lixin Fan traces the conflicts between married migrant factory workers in Guangzhou and their daughter, strains partly resulting from China’s accelerating economy.

A boy loses his rodent and finds a girl in “Etienne!,” a sunny-sweet fable about healing wounds with the balm of the open road.

An alcoholic finds self-respect as the coach of a high school girls’ basketball team in “The Winning Season.”

The Portuguese director Miguel Gomes blurs the line between nonfiction and fiction.

The film about living in New York post-9/11, is earnest and well meaning and, while dangerously sentimental at times, never quite crosses the line into maudlin.

Like its subject, the movie is sharp, charismatic and so light on its feet we never know which way it will turn.

“Max Manus” is a solidly acted biopic of World War II derring-do.

The bungled wedding story and the road movie collide happily in “White Wedding.”

This suspense thriller, directed by Anton Corbijn, is often more evocative of the art house than of the multiplex.

“My Dog Tulip,” an animated film based on the 1956 memoir by J. R. Ackerley, explores a lonely man’s devotion toward his pet.

Nagesh Kukunoor’s “Aashayein” is a genre-defying Bollywood look at death.

Vincent Cassel, in a four-hour biography of a French gangster, gives a performance reminiscent of Mitchum and De Niro.

“The Town” gives Ben Affleck another chance to shine as writer, director and star.

Wynton Marsalis and friends provided the live accompaniment for a silent film about Louis Armstrong’s childhood.

The director was best known for his 1991 award-winning film “Tous les Matins du Monde.”

The 1981 Dudley Moore comedy “Arthur” is being remade, starring Russell Brand, and filming is taking place all over Manhattan and Queens.

The documentary “Last Train Home” looks at a generation of migrant workers who have sacrificed their families to China’s rush to economic supremacy.

The animation team Paul and Sandra Fierlinger, in films like “My Dog Tulip,” use custom-made computers to create their hand-drawn-looking images.

A PG-13 rating and a wide release helped push the horror movie “The Last Exorcism” to No. 1 at the box office.

Barbara Loden’s film “Wanda,” a feminist portrayal of a woman struggling to survive, is being reissued.

“Pandora and the Flying Dutchman,” Albert Lewin’s morbid, grandiloquent Technicolor film starring Ava Gardner and James Mason, has been released on DVD.

How does Joel Silver, the producer behind “Die Hard” and “The Matrix,” adapt to a movie industry that is cutting costs?

The new film “Louis” is shown with live music led by Wynton Marsalis.

A prop shop in Long Island City, run by Film Biz Recycling, is a nonprofit loaded with items donated from television and commercial productions.

Magaly Solier plays a stoic young woman in Lima contending with her mother’s death.

Michel Franco’s debut feature looks at the fallout of the kidnapping of a brother and sister from a well-off family.

In David H. Hickey’s comedy, a Middle Eastern strongman headed for Cuba crash-lands in Texas.

In “Piranha 3D” Alexandre Aja brings us hungry fish and shredded limbs in this loose remake of a 1978 film.

A listing of movies and film series.

Ms. King played Scarlett O’Hara and Rhett Butler’s ill-fated little girl, Bonnie Blue Butler, in “Gone With the Wind.”

Mr. Kon was a Japanese filmmaker and comic-book artist whose dazzling visual compositions won him a devoted following.

“Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,” Seth Schiesel argues, fails to make the emotional investment that defines today’s best games.

A screening of “Love Story” at Harvard teaches freshmen that melodrama means never having to say you’re sorry for all the insults.

Mr. Schlingensief, a German filmmaker, theater director and all-purpose gadfly, waged a tireless assault on received opinion in the arts and politics.

The carmaker, which plans to release a mass-market electric car this year, the Leaf, has enlisted Robert Downey Jr. for its commercial voice-overs.

The 40th anniversary of James Dickey’s book about wilderness and survival shouldn’t slip by unnoticed.

Miguel Gomes, Pedro Costa, Ulrich Seidl and Apichatpong Weerasethakul are some of the world cinema directors blending staged and real-life scenes in their work.

The artist and filmmaker is also a devotee of instant film.

Some indie record labels are distributing movies too. Their business model is: Stay small and informal, know your audience and put out stuff you like

“The Expendables” with Sylvester Stallone leading an ensemble cast was No. 1 with about $16.5 million, bringing the cumulative total to about $65 million, according to Hollywood.com.

Three silent films by Josef von Sternberg, the master of shadow and light, have been released in a boxed set by Criterion.

After the success of “The Passion of the Christ,” Hollywood still hasn’t tapped the appetite for faith-based cinema. But new films are trying.

Mark Zuckerberg, the company founder, has been locked in a standoff with the makers of a film about the social network.

With two controversial new roles and a candor to match her beauty, the “Slumdog” star Freida Pinto completes her passage from India.

Gary Giddins looks back at films of the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s, from Jimmy Stewart westerns to propaganda driven by a samba beat.

Li Cunxin’s journey from his home in rural China to pursue ballet in the United States is chronicled in “Mao’s Last Dancer,” a new movie by Bruce Beresford.

Mr. Hogan had been prevented from leaving Australia, where authorities said he owed millions in unpaid taxes.

Mr. Gould, who played Trapper John McIntyre in Robert Altman's war satire "MASH," reflects on the film, his work with Robert Altman and his influential facial hair.

The documentary is adapted from the writing of Bjorn Lomborg, a Danish statistician who has argued against what he believes are extreme and alarmist scenarios presented by other environmentalists.