Visiting Buffalo last week as part of the Babel series, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk had this to say about the telling of one’s life story, as he had done himself in his recent book, Istanbul: “Autobiography is not about remembering, it is about forgetting.”

Not counting second-run holdovers from the summer, there are by my count 27 movies showing hereabouts. Of those, taking an educated guess on the few I haven’t seen, I would say that 14 of them are worth your time. That’s more than half. And that’s a better average than I can ever remember.