Fall Preview

The Southwest Film Center at UNM has put together its schedule for the fall semester, and the student-run operation will help us check off a few titles on our wish list. Among the offerings:

• Stories We Tell (Nov. 14-17) - Sarah Polley's family memoir, which got a criminally short first run in Albuquerque.
• A Band Called Death (Sept. 5-8) - The documentary about the Detroit black-punk trio.
• Much Ado About Nothing (Sept. 12-15) - We missed Joss Whedon's B&W take on Shakespeare in its quickie run at the megaplex.
• Dead Man (Oct. 17-20) - We're due for a re-screening of Jim Jarmusch's Old West masterpiece, one of our favorite films of the '90s, with Johnny Depp as a sort of proto-Tonto.

 Other titles include "The Place Beyond the Pines," "NO," "Mary Poppins," the recent "Kon-Tiki," "The Big Lebowski," "Bless Me, Ultima," "Sightseers" (a dark comedy about a couple on a murderous holiday trip) and the Manhattan Short Film Fest.