![]() ![]() ![]() Jones/Arnie Zane dance company and associate professor and chair of dance at Loyola Marymount University, adds producer and director to her list of achievements with this debut documentary about her iconic troupe leader. Rosalynde LeBlanc, a former member of the Bill T. ( Tom Meek) Landmark Kendall Square Cinema, 355 Binney St. It’s a whale of a tale that should have been bigger. The experts interviewed are well versed, and there’s even a flautist who tries to communicate to 52 via an amped-up pitch. Fifty-two was located by the Navy in the late 1980s, and when the information was declassified and shared with marine biologists, it was learned that what was thought to be the sound of a Russian military weapon was in fact a “biologic.” Zeman, enamored with the narrative, tries his hand at finding Nessie. The “52” refers to the level of hertz the whale transmits sound at – a pitch no other whale uses, thus that “lonely” tag (no other whale can understand him, he’ll never get a mate, and so on). Joshua Zeman’s doc about an enigmatic solo cetacean has a bold premise but becomes too much about the filmmaker’s Ahab-esque quest rather than its amazingly elusive subject. In theaters and streaming ‘The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52’ (2021) It’s paired with “Another Round,” last year’s Best International Film Oscar winner (and a Day Top 10 selection) with Mads Mikkelsen as one of four schoolteachers seeking the deeper meaning of life by experimenting with alcohol consumption on the job. ![]() On Friday, there’s Quentin Dupieux’s psycho-horror plumb “Deerskin,” in which a thrift-store leather jacket imbues its wearer (Oscar winner Jean Dujardin) with murderous intent. Also on Monday is “Bacurau,” an “El Topo”-esque cult curio centered in a remote Brazilian village with a macabre side. The Brattle Theatre sails into its second week of reopening showing some of the best 2020 had to offer that you can now see on the big screen, starting with “Lucky Grandma,” Sasie Sealy’s cheeky crime drama about a can-do Chinese grandma in New York City who finds herself at the center of a gang war.
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