- America Ferrera and Michael Pena in Cesar Chavez
Doc Films didn’t release their spring calendar until after we went to press, so we couldn’t list in our print edition what they’re showing next week. But it’s a fine program, and the opening week is loaded with classics. On Monday Wild Boys of the Road (1933), one of director William Wellman’s finest Depression-era dramas, kicks off a series on road movies. On Tuesday a series devoted to trailblazing experimental filmmakers Michael Snow and Joyce Wieland begins with Snow’s famous Wavelength (1967). MASH (1970) begins a Robert Altman retrospective on Wednesday, while a program of early shorts by Alain Resnais (including the 1955 Night and Fog) begins a Thursday night series on the recently departed French master. Also on Thursday nights is a series of recent arty horror movies, starting next week at 9 PM with the Austrian version of Michael Haneke’s Funny Games (1997). Rounding out the program are a Pixar Studios retrospective on Friday nights and Sunday afternoons and a ten-film Ernst Lubitsch series on Sunday nights, both of which begin next weekend.
