Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
(Thurs June 7, Pacific Place, 9:30 pm)--Despite Charles Mudede's admonition to the contrary, this documentary about the life and career of the late great filmmaker is actually a great pleasure, if you're a fan of Kubrick's work. While a bit light on insight, the film is nonetheless worthy because the clips make you want to revisit all his films.

Betty Blue (L'integrale)
(Fri June 8, Harvard Exit, 5 pm, FREE)--Director's cut of the raveningly sexual mid-'80s French film.

The King Is Alive
(Fri June 8, Pacific Place, 7:15 pm)--Dogme lives in this tale of the psychological dissolution of a bunch of tourists intent on staging King Lear in the middle of the desert.

The Business of Strangers
(Fri June 8, Egyptian, 9:30 pm)--Julia Stiles and Stockard Channing star in this Sleuth-esque head trip, set in a vicious world of corporate intrigue.

National 7
(Fri June 8, Pacific Place, 5 pm)--Handicapped sociopaths have sexual needs too, as this weird but totally gripping French drama proves.

Startup.com
(Fri June 8, Broadway Performance Hall, 7:15 pm; Mon June 11, Harvard Exit, 5 pm)--Riveting documentary on the rise and fall of Govworks.com, and the interpersonal politics that went along with it.

The Crimson Rivers
(Fri June 8, Cinerama, 9:30 pm; Sun June 10, Egyptian, 1:45 pm)--Super-grisly French thriller about a psychokiller on the loose at a boarding school in the Alps.

The Melancholy Chicken
(Sat June 9, Harvard Exit, 11:30 am)--Odd and oddly moving Czech fable about an emotionally distant father, his son, and the poultry that binds them.

Strangled Lives (Vite Strozzate)
(Sat June 9, Harvard Exit, 1:45 pm)--Ah, che bella Italia!

Hedwig and the Angry Inch
(Sat June 9, Cinerama, 9:30 pm; Mon June 11, 9:30 pm)--Film adaptation of John Cameron Mitchell's titanically great glam rock sex-change musical.