Indie Picks: At The Movies This Weekend

Sundance Selects

Tabloid (Regal Arbor)
We caught this terrific documentary from Errol Morris when it screened during SXSW earlier this year. It takes a Rashomon-style approach to unraveling the story of Joyce McKinney, a former Miss Wyoming winner who was accused of abducting a man she had been dating to bring him back to the United States from a missionary trip overseas. Long before the News Of The World scandal, this story exploded in the British tabloids and made Joyce a sensation. Tabloid is genuinely outrageous and unexpected.

Another Earth (Alamo South Lamar, Regal Arbor)
Mike Cahill's directorial debut premiered at Sundance this year with plenty of fanfare, fueled by the buzz around its star (and co-producer/co-writer) Brit Marling, who also starred in the Sundance debut Sound Of My Voice. Both films played at SXSW this year as well, and both films were ultimately picked up for distribution by Fox Searchlight. While this sci-fi flick was not received as well 'Voice', Time magazine has called it "the most soulful art movie of the summer."

Sarah's Key (Regal Arbor, Violet Crown Cinema)
Any time the Weinstein brothers bring us a Holocaust-themed drama, we expect full-on Oscar bait. Based on Tatiana de Rosnay's acclaimed novel, Sarah's Key stars Kristin Scott Thomas as a journalist working in Paris researching the effects of the little known Vel d'Hiv round-up, where thousands of Jews were detained by French police in 1942.

Also this weekend:
-The Summer Film Series at the Paramount Theatre has one of its strongest weekends yet, with a double feature of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and Michael Powell's brilliant Peeping Tom on Saturday and Sunday.