Summer of Salvation

Yolande Moreau stars as the French painter Séraphine Louis, who worked as a servant girl before her gift for painting was discovered in 1912. Provost tracks Séraphine's fast rise and heartbreaking fall in a film that won seven César Awards (the French Oscars), including Best Picture and Best Actress.

Soul Power

Directed by Jeffrey Levy-Hinte

In the days preceding Muhammad Ali and George Foreman's 1974 fight, musical giants such as James Brown, B.B. King, Bill Withers and Celia Cruz gathered in Zaire for a three-day concert. Oscar winner Levy-Hinte (When We Were Kings) has restored a mountain of found footage of the concert and the chaos that surrounded it for this high-energy doc.

Taking Woodstock

Directed by Ang Lee

The Brokeback Mountain director lightens up for this tie-dye-filled adaptation of Elliot Tiber's terrific Woodstock memoir. Tiber, played here by comedian Demetri Martin, isn't famous, but his family's dilapidated motel was ground zero for the iconic festival.

Terminator Salvation

Directed by McG

Christian Bale goes ballistic in this reboot of Governor Schwarzenegger's signature film series. It's 2018, and Bale is John Connor, the resistance leader whose birth Arnie was trying to prevent, way back in the day.

Tetro

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola

In writing his first original screenplay since 1974's The Conversation, Coppola reportedly mined his own backstory for this tale of two brothers (Vincent Gallo and Alden Ehrenreich) trying to come to terms with their complex family history. Set in contemporary Buenos Aires, Tetro was filmed in black-and-white, a style Coppola last employed for 1983's Rumble Fish.

The Time Traveler's Wife

Directed by Robert Schwentke

Henry (Eric Bana), a Chicago librarian, is forever bouncing around in time (literally). This makes life/marriage hard for Claire (Rachel McAdams), his wife, whose attempts to hold him still are captured in this film version of Audrey Niffenegger's best-seller.

UP

Directed by Pete Docter

Only a Pixar animator — in this case, Monsters, Inc. director Docter — would dare ask studio bosses for millions of dollars to make an animated movie about a depressed 78-year-old widower (voiced by Ed Asner) who doesn't like children. We trust all things Pixar, but don't expect a run on Ed Asner plush toys at your local superstore.

Whatever Works

Directed by Woody Allen

Allen returns to Manhattan after an extended European vacation and casts Larry David as a hypochondriac physicist whose spirits are lifted when he befriends and later weds a dippy 20-year-old (Evan Rachel Wood). Reportedly based on a script Allen wrote 30 years ago; luckily, neuroticism is timeless.