Richard Brody writes about the collection “Early Short Films of the French New Wave,” with films by Melvin Van Peebles, Maurice Pialat, Jean Rouch, and more.
“The Dirty Stories of Jean Eustache” is a traveling retrospective that will showcase a dozen of the filmmaker’s documentaries, shorts and dramatic features. The series is headlined by a restoration of 1974’s “The Mother and the Whore,” which critic Sean Burns calls pitilessly funny and unutterably sad.