Somewhere in the second half of Christmas in the Clouds, Native American actor Wes Studi (Dances With Wolves, Last of the Mohicans) shows up wearing a tartan kilt and playing himself, calling numbers in a bingo parlor. I don’t know why this happens, but by the time it does, the incongruity doesn’t seem important. The movie, whose makers appear to fancy it a Native American romantic comedy, is so vaporously insubstantial that nothing in it, even this curiosity, is focus-worthy.

When I was a kid, walking between home and school, I would watch men at work. I would stand for countless minutes and observe their labors for no other reason than curiosity. Daniel Anker, the producer and director of the documentary Music from the Inside Out, appears to have a similar curiosity about musicians and their work, although the intensity of his interest far exceeded mine, as he spent four years filming and editing this 88-minute film.

Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni’s The Passenger, starring Jack Nicholson, was first released in 1975. It met with a baffled and lukewarm response, but gained a small cult following. Thirty years later, it has been restored and re-released. Amazingly, the response this time around has been almost unanimously rapturous. Roger Ebert has written a glowing review that completely reverses his original pan of the movie. It now looks like it was ahead of its time, and we the audience are now finally ready for it.