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September 23, 2011

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BILL CUNNINGHAM NEW YORK (Encore on Comcast) Richard Press’s smart, playful documentary takes a fascinating look at The New York Times photographer - his process, his subjects, his life, his apartment, his neighbors. It’s as much a portrait of a kind of artist as it is a document of a city whose cool has been the victim of one premature obituary after the next. Cunningham doesn’t hide behind his camera so much as live through it. (unrated; runs through Nov. 19)WESLEY MORRIS

KALIFORNIA (Comcast Movies: Free Movies) Brad Pitt is compelling as a white trash serial killer, and Juliette Lewis is astonishing as his infantilized girlfriend, but this film about their terrorizing of a yuppie couple on a cross-country drive declines pretty swiftly from the surrealism of darkly stylish urban Gothic music-video visuals to standard road movie rough stuff. (R; runs through Nov. 17)

LENNY (Encore on Comcast) Bob Fosse’s hyped bio of stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce is shallow, but well worth seeing for those who know nothing of the controversial facts. Dustin Hoffman in the title role and Valerie Perrine as his wife offer powerful and sorrowful versions of humor from courtship to courtroom. (R; runs through Nov. 21)

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