Bradley Rust Gray's romantic microdrama "The Exploding Girl" starring Zoe Kazan has its local premiere Saturday in the Blue Whiskey Independent FIlm Festival.
The New York Times critic appears this weekend at KAM Isaiah Israel in Hyde Park. Also this week: Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "Tokyo Sonata" opens at Music Box; So Yong Kim's "Treeless Mountain" closes the Asian American Showcase; and Kelly Reichardt's "Wendy and Lucy" makes a curtain call at Facets.