Islands in the Stream, May 4

Francois Ozon's wonderful Ricky is now available on Netflix Watch Instantly. In her rave review, Marcy wrote: "Ricky contains moments of real grit, but also a dose of otherworldly magic that only cinema can provide."

Barbara Kopple's 1997 documentary portraits Woody Allen during a European tour with his New Orleans jazz band. Fourteen years later, we still can't check into a hotel without thinking of Woody and Soon-Yi's double suites in Venice.

A potent documentary that uses a long-lost film reel to illustrate how the Nazis controlled images of Jewish life during World War II. Though the Nazis made a propaganda movie of contented Jews in the Warsaw ghetto, the missing spool exposes the truth. Director Yael Hersonski shows how the imagery was staged to distort historical knowledge and, with the aid of Jewish survivors' testimony, chronicles the horrifying reality of ghetto life.

Filmmaker Yony Leyser offers a fascinating portrait of Beat-era writer William S. Burroughs, a man whose sexuality, enthusiasm for guns and public struggle with opiate addiction made him a singular figure in American counterculture. Rare archival footage of Burroughs's odd antics and candid reflections from friends -- including John Waters, Iggy Pop, Amiri Baraka and members of Sonic Youth -- reveal the twisted genius of a literary icon.

Marcy was only somewhat taken by Petter Moland's comedy about a sensitive mobster, but fans of Stellan Skarsgård might find it worth their while.