“Art shouldn’t offer answers, only questions,” filmmaker Michael Haneke stated in a recent interview. Not exactly a surprising declaration from a provocateur of his stature, but it is an imperative that modern cinema largely lacks. Shane Carruth, however, is the embodiment of Haneke’s edict.

Remix albums have something of a deserved bad name: often lazily tossed off cash cows trying to convince the consumer to pay out for the same product twice. Yet another Blade Runner Director’s Cut, if you like.

Polly (Scrubs’ Sarah Chalke) is a young single mom with a spiky offspring, Natalie (Rachel Eggleston), who has moved back in with her mom Elaine (Weeds’ Elizabeth Perkins) and dad Max (Everybody Loves Raymond‘s Brad Garrett).

The Besnard Lakes were the Dark Horse in 2007, the Roaring Night in 2010, and in 2013 have decided to eschew declaring themselves anything in an album title, going this time for something more… opaque.

Caveman’s debut, CoCo Beware, initially self-released but reissued by Fat Possum Records in 2012, was a sweeping, ethereal album that recalled Plants and Animals’ 2008 album Parc Avenue and the work of Fleet Foxes.

Fourteen years after the celebrated Los Angeles group Rilo Kiley self-released their first EP and five years since their last full album, bassist Pierre de Reeder is releasing RKives, a collection of unreleased songs, B-sides, and rarities on his own record label.

A woman lingering in a subway station witnesses a visibly distraught figure setting down her purse, taking off her jacket, and slipping out of her shoes. When their eyes meet briefly it appears that the two are identical, seconds before the barefoot lady dies as she deliberately steps in front of an oncoming train.

Derek Cianfrance’s (Blue Valentine) second feature is a sweeping, far-fetched drama set in the seedy underbelly of Schenectady, NY: a place surprisingly packed with dirty cops, dirty politicians, and dirty carnies.

Eyebrows understandably furled when boundary-subverting director Harmony Korine announced that his newest feature, Spring Breakers, would star bubblegum Disney princesses Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez.