New to the Queue

A period in which sisters named Tointon have a movie released on the same day, neither of which made our list; here are the ones that did:

Pawel Pawlikowski (last year's guilty pleasure "The Woman in the Fifth") offers a period piece from the early 1960s about a Polish nun who explores her own Jewish heritage in "Ida."

A war veteran hunts down a man who might possibly be a former POW living in Vietnam in the documentary "Unclaimed."

A black comedy about an unlikeable comedian, "Ape."

A sly, understated dramatization based on Joseph Mengele's years in South America, circa 1960, "The German Doctor."

One of our absolute favorites, Francois Ozon, a questionable French coming-of-age(-as-a-prostitute) story, "Young & Beautiful."

Dare we go slasher? We might hit the Guild Cinema this month for "Blue Ruin."

Alex Karpovsky always grabs our attention, so we'll check out the little indie "Marvin, Seth and Stanley."

The recent sappy drama bombed, but we're looking forward to the Cesar Chavez documentary "Cesar's Last Fast."

We're tempted by a documentary that consists entirely of 11 uncut static shots of people riding a mountain tram in Nepal (from Harvard's Sensory Ethnography Lab), "Manakamana."