Well, well, well! If it isn't Wednesday! YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS. (It means that some movies are playing. It's a lot like Tuesday, actually.)

Movies!

Brendan Kiley swooned a goodly amount over The Karamazovs:

A film about a Czech theater company running a dress rehearsal of their distilled, intense adaptation of The Brothers Karamazov in a crumbling Polish factory? While a maintenance man, agonizing because his young son is in the hospital, watches from a distance? How could that possibly be anything but dull? The Karamazovs is, in fact, the opposite of dull—intelligent, energetic, and tragic, like watching a freight train full of kittens running headlong into a missile filled with hope. Hope gets exploded and the kittens all die, but it’s amazing to watch.

You can check out local filmmaker Sandy Cioffi's Sweet Crude, the documentary that landed her in a Nigerian prison.

It's your last chance to see Mid-August Lunch, which Charles Mudede recommends.

Art & Copy is super-excellent, says Dave Schmader:

Documentarian Doug Pray has made a career chronicling American subcultures, from the ground-zero participants/victims of the Seattle Grunge Boom (1994’s classic Hype!) to the loneliness of the long-haul trucker (the 2007 SIFF hit Big Rig). In the new Art & Copy, Pray turns his attention to the advertising world, devoting the majority of the film to Madison Avenue’s major players (happy surprise: a good number of history’s game-changing “Mad Men” are women) and the Ad Campaigns That Revolutionized Everything (from “Morning in America” to “Got Milk?” to “Just Do It”). Framing the historical segments are the day-to-day labors of a third-generation billboard-hanger, adding up to a richly entertaining glimpse at the inner and outer workings of the American ad world’s dream factory.

Eli Sanders liked Prodigal Sons:

It would be hard to invent a more fraught (or more complicated) documentary scenario: A former Montana high school football star who played quarterback when he was still a he returns to Big Sky Country for a class reunion—now named Kimberly, and with her girlfriend in tow. “How can you be a male and now you’re a female but yet you like females?” asks an old friend. That’s the easy encounter. There’s also a brother who had part of his brain removed after a car accident and has some hard feelings about his transgender sister, and, randomly, the discovery of family ties to Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth. About as thorny and discursive as it sounds.

Also playing today: Charles Mudede has high praise for With a Little Help from Myself; Final Arrangements is pleasant French cheeze; and Kabei: Our Mother is "noiseless, graceful, and delicate." Oh, also, I realize that I'm No Dummy is tantalizing for those of us who like to ogle creepy shit, but Andrew Wright warns against it. Consider yourself warned.