Welcome to L.A. Weekly's Movie Guide, your look at the hottest films in Los Angeles theaters this week ? from indie art house gems and classics to popcorn-perfect blockbusters and new movies garnering buzz. Check here every week before you make your big screen plans.

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Friday, June 28

Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes premiered at Tribeca last year and makes its Los Angeles debut at the Laemmle Monica Film Center. Sophie Huber's documentary dives into the history of one of the most influential record labels in the history of jazz. Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Bud Powell, and Art Blakely are just a few legendary names that passed through their doors. Combining archival footage with contemporary recording sessions, the film draws parallels between classic jazz and modern day music movements, particularly hip-hop.

Monica Film Center, 1332 2nd St., Santa Monica, Fri., June 28, various showtimes; $9-$12. (310)-478-3836.

Mia and the White Lion opened theatrically in April and disappeared within a month. It reappears on Blu-ray and VOD this week. This French-German-South African family adventure about a young girl and her pet lion recalls the classic animal films of Carroll Ballard. M?lanie Laurent plays the girl's concerned mother, which explains why the film did so well in France. Shout! Studios is the distributor.

Back to the Fatherland, a documentary directed by Kat Rohrer and Gil Levanon, turns the camera on the filmmakers themselves. Friends since college, their backgrounds are starkly different. Gil is the Jewish granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor; Kat's grandfather was a Nazi officer. Together, they undertake a mission to locate other grandchildren of concentration camp victims in an effort to heal their pain and bring intergenerational reconciliation.

Laemmle Music Hall, 9036 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, Fri., June 28, various showtimes; $9-$12. (310) 478-3836, laemmle.com.

The 16th Episode is a low-budget indie about a crew of three YouTubers who visit Casablanca and participate in the filming of a Satanic ritual, resulting in blood, horror, and death. Perhaps they should have visited Rick's Caf? Americain instead. J?rôme Cohen-Olivar directed.

Arena Cinelounge, 6464 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood; Fri., June 28, $16. (323) 924-1644, arenascreen.com.

Remember Ophelia, the young Danish noblewoman engaged to the mad Prince Hamlet, who advises her to Get thee to a nunnery?? Anyone paying the slightest attention in English lit will recall that she drowned in a brook. What Claire McCarthy's reimagining of Shakespeare's play suggests is? maybe she didn't. Based on the 2006 novel by Lisa Klein, Ophelia features Daisey Ridley in the title role, George MacKay as Hamlet, and Tom Felton as Laertes. Clive Owen sports a Prince Valiant wig as Claudius and Naomi Watts wears an all-white one. The screenplay is by Semi Chellas.

Monica Film Center, 1332 2nd St., Santa Monica, Fri., June 28, various showtimes; $9-$12. (310) 478-3836, laemmle.com.

Our Time (Spanish title: Nuestro Tiempo) marks Mexican director Carlos Reygadas's return to the screen after 2012's Post Tenebras Lux. A bucolic, three-hour saga of a family raising fighting bulls in the countryside, the film develops into a slow-burning tale of marital infidelity as the wife (Natalia López) of a famous poet (Reygadas) falls into an affair with a visiting American horse trainer (Phil Burgers). Gorgeously photographed in the kind of dusky light for which the director is famous, the movie's theme of sexual jealousy is given an extra layer of intrigue by the casting of the director and his wife as an onscreen couple.

Laemmle Royal, 11523 Santa Monica Blvd., West L.A., Fri., June 28, various showtimes; $9-13. (310) 478-3836, laemmle.com.

Wednesday, July 3

Rialto Pictures recently undertook a 4K restoration of The Doors, Oliver Stone's 1991 music biopic about the legendary rock band and its iconic and self-destructive lead vocalist, Jim Morrison (played by dead ringer Val Kilmer). This new version, which some are referring to as The Doors: The Final Cut, was supervised by the director and will enjoy a limited re-release in select theaters. Students of the 1960s, or of music or movies in general, will want to check it out.

Laemmle Ahrya Fine Arts Theatre (also playing at the Playhouse 7, NoHo 7, and Glendale), 8556 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, Wed., July 3, 7:30 p.m.; $12. (310) 478-3836, laemmle.com.