Mar 11th   
Marriage Story**   
(US 2019)   
Netflix/Heyday Films. 138m.

A New York couple's marriage on the rocks is hurled into the divorce courts when against their better natures they decide to hire Los Angeles lawyers.
Long and talky but compellingly so, a Kramer Versus Kramer for the modern age with added influences of Woody Allen (and in turn from him, Ingmar Bergman) and excellent general performances, excruciatingly pointed in its drama as soon as the devious lawyers enter into the fray.

Written and Directed by: Noah Baumbach.
Producers: David Heyman, Noah Baumbach.
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Adam Driver, Laura Dern, Alan Alda, Ray Liotts, Azhy Robinson, Julie Hagerty, Merritt Weaver, Martha Kelly, Wallace Shawn.
Photography: Robbie Ryan.
Music: Randy Newman.
Editing: Jennifer Lame.

Preceded by:
Peculiar Patients' Pranks* 
(US 1915. 12m(excerpts). bw. silent; One of the first of Roach's Lonesome Luke series recently found retrieved the archives, using actors in the developing stages of their careers.; w: Dollt Twist; p, d: Hal Roach; s: Harold Lloyd, Snub Pollard, Bebe Daniels.)

PECULIAR PATIENTS' PRANKS. Harold Lloyd back in the days before he found the rounded glasses that made his name.