Review

This spellbinding documentary takes a small item from recent history—the alleged discovery of the extinct ivory-billed woodpecker near a small, depressed Arkansas town in 2005, and the media and scientific hoopla that ensued—and turns it into a cosmic lament for the forest primeval and man’s search for environmental redemption.

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Anthology Film Archives celebrates the arrival of spring with For the Birds, a tribute to movies featuring wings and feathers, running from April 28 through May 5. Also includes screenings of bird-related shorts; Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud, and Michel Debats’s Winged Migration; and, of course, Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds.