Press has made an intimate portrait that feels more found than it does constructed. Interspersing lively interviews with affectionate commentary from longtime friends and subjects - socialites, editors, models, eccentrics, dandies, avant-gardists, curators and neighbors - Mr. Cunningham, a photographer for The New York Times, has found something creative, life-affirming and free: proof of humanity amid the chaos of daily life. ‘Bill Cunningham New York’ (No rating, 1:24) Richard Press has made a sensitive portrait of a spiritual man whose devotion to fashion photography, that most worldly of pursuits, has chronicled an era. The filmmakers Renaud Barret and Florent De la Tullaye have an eye for revelation and entertainment. ★ ‘Benda Bilili!’ (PG-13, 1:25, in French and Lingala) This documentary of years in the life of Staff Benda Bilili, an intergenerational band of polio survivors and street youth, offers intimate, and rare, access to the urban misery of Kinshasa, Congo, as well as this group’s can-do optimism - which, in this lucky case, pays off with international success. Archie’s playful, even exuberant voice overshadows the movie’s more ham-fisted suicide message. ‘Archie’s Final Project’ (No rating, 1:45) Veering from the picaresque to the somber, this confused movie about teenage suicide tells its story from the point of view of its protagonist, Archie (a talented Gabriel Sunday), in a kinetic jumble of film styles. Lautner his due, he is a martial-arts dervish with perfectly sculptured abs. The camera swoons around him as if he were a priceless sculpture. ‘Abduction’ (PG-13, 1:46) This film is a sloppy, exploitative act of star worship created (if that’s the right word for cynical hackwork) around Taylor Lautner, the pouty 19-year-old heartthrob of the “Twilight” franchise. Full reviews of all current releases, movie trailers, showtimes and tickets: /movies. Ratings and running times are in parentheses foreign-language films have English subtitles.
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