Film Calendar

22 -- "The Band's Visit" is Israeli director Eran Kolirin's comedy about an Egyptian police band's journey to Israel to play at the opening of an Arab arts center, during which they become lost in a foreign city.

22 -- "The Signal," a horror film, with Internet Movie Database character credits including "deranged people" and "random bodies," is about a transmission that invades cellphones, radios and TVs and turns their users into killers; the story is told in three parts, from three perspectives (what, "Rashomon: The Quickening" was taken?).

22 -- "Charlie Bartlett" stars Anton Yelchin, of TV's late and lamented "Huff," as a high school student who begins to act as a bathroom psychiatrist to his peers and teachers, unlocking all manner of angst, hypocrisy and longing. The coming-of-age comedy co-stars Hope Davis and Robert Downey Jr.

22 -- "Vantage Point" features William Hurt as an American president who is shot while speaking in Spain, and Sigourney Weaver, Forest Whitaker, Dennis Quaid and Matthew Fox as some of the witnesses whose differing views of the event lead to solving the mystery of who's behind it.

25 -- "Michael Haneke: A Cinema of Provocation" opens at the Goethe-Institut. The series will offer a retrospective of the controversial Austrian director's work, including such rarely seen television projects as "The Castle," "Lemmings" and "Fraulein." Through March 24.

29 -- "Chicago 10" is Brett Morgen's part-animated, part live-action, part-documentary about the eight antiwar activists who were arrested at the Democratic National Convention in 1968, and the two attorneys who defended them.

29 -- "City of Men" follows the stunning 2002 film "City of God," which transpired in the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro. Here, two teenage best friends (Douglas Silva and Darlan Cunha) find their relationship threatened when they turn up on opposite sides of a gang war. (Directed by Paulo Morelli; the original film's director, Fernando Meirelles, produces.)

29 -- "Semi-Pro" stars Will Ferrell in a basketball comedy set in 1976; Ferrell plays the coach of the Flint Michigan Tropics, whose title of losingest team is threatened when their upstart league announces it is folding. With Woody Harrelson, Andre Benjamin and Rob Corddry.

29 -- "The Other Boleyn Girl" stars Scarlett Johansson as Mary Boleyn, who competes with her power-hungry sister Anne (Natalie Portman) for the affections of King Henry VIII (Eric Bana) in 16th-century England.

29 -- "Penelope" features Christina Ricci as a privileged girl who suffers a family curse that can only be overcome when she finds true love. Reese Witherspoon and James McAvoy co-star in this modern-day romantic fairy tale.

MARCH

TBD -- "Under the Same Moon" tells the story of a mother and son living on opposite sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, in parallel tales of loyalty, sacrifice and courage.

TBD -- "Married Life," directed by Ira Sachs, is a drama set in the 1940s, when a cheating husband arranges to have his wife killed rather than admit his affair. With Pierce Brosnan, Chris Cooper, Patricia Clarkson and Rachel McAdams.