It’s the final night at Film Forum for this extraordinarily smart and sweet autobiographical documentary by Agnès Varda. You really will kick yourself if you miss it. As we wrote in our review, the film “finds exuberance in the act of recollection, like making a happy discovery in a thrift store.” And you all remember what happened when you didn’t buy that long-coveted, out-of-print vinyl version of Missing Persons’s Spring Session M—an album that you raved about for years, yet still didn’t have the cash for at the time—even though there was an ATM in the record store.

Please, what should we see? Naturally, we’ve got suggestions, while you stake your independence from work. (And if you do have to work tomorrow, our sympathies.) Keith loves him some new Michael Mann: Public Enemies is “a dream of a long-gone past in which the inevitable always looms.” Go to a screening and Keith will probably be there, seeing the movie yet again. I, meanwhile, recommend The Beaches of Agnès, a playful, vibrant autobiographical documentary by France’s revered Agnès Varda. Who’s she? Check out her back catalogue and Keith’s interview. The movie plays at Film Forum. But what if I’m just feeling patriotic, dammit? You can’t do much better than the stirring 1946 WWII drama The Best Years of Our Lives, at MoMA on Sunday afternoon.

It’s Agnès Varda week in Manhattan, between the premiere of this great French director’s latest, The Beaches of Agnès, at Film Forum and today’s three screenings (12:30, 4:00 and 7:30pm) of The Creatures (1966) at the French Institute Alliance Française. Michel Piccoli and Catherine Deneuve star as a married couple who get into a car accident in which the husband is injured and the wife goes mute. They sequester themselves on an island, where they try to conceive a child and where the unspoken tensions of their relationship come to the fore. This is one of Varda’s lesser-known works stateside, so definitely give it a look.