Screen Grabs is our weekly peek at what’s coming to cinemas, art houses, and personal viewing devices within your vicinity—with occasional reappraisals of the classics.

The artistic life is explored in several new documentaries opening this week, each focusing on a singular talent that has acquired fervent followings of almost cult-like worship over the decades. One subject is still with us: Meredith Monk. As Billy Shebar’s film Monk In Pieces: A Concept Album emphasizes, her interdisciplinary art is so original, it has largely flown under the popular radar simply because no one knows how to categorize it.

Now in her early eighties, she was started on her path in childhood by developing strabismus (i.e. “lazy eye”), whose related disabilities were dealt with by enrollment in a Dalcroze e

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