cinemas, and it's not a really wide release, but it's never look away and it's a film by florian henckel von donnersmarckit is a very smart film. it is inspired by, but not based on, the life of gerhard richter. the artist. yeah, the artist. it's a film about ways of seeing, that is kind of talking about quite complicated artistic ideas but wrapped up in a melodrama that goes through various subsections of history — from the war and then from fascism to communism to the west and what's interesting about it, on the one hand, it's a very mainstream, very accessible film of a love story and a mystery. on the other hand, it is a film which — look at that title, never look away — is asking about the ways in which artists can look at things by kind of looking at them from the side. sometimes you can only look at something by looking away. it's three hours long... yeah. ..but no — it flew by. ok, that's good. i'm terrible with long films but i thought it absolutely flew by. all right. and dvd? yeah, this is a very brief theatrical release, but armstrong, the documentary about neil armstrong is coming out on dvd