SUMMERCAMP!
Unrated, 185 minutes

In the summer of 2003, filmmakers Bradley Beesley and Sarah Price joined forces to tackle a documentary subject of almost unbearably powerful emotions and compulsively watchable conflict: a season at a mid-western sleepover camp. For three weeks, Mr. Beesley and Ms. Price used their cameras to corral the experiences of 90 children ages six to 15 turned loose on Swift Nature Camp in Northern Wisconsin into “Summercamp!,” a marvelously honest new film playing at IFC Center.

After about three days of shooting, Mr. Beesley and Ms. Price’s cameras found a group of kids who would occupy the center of their digital, handheld tapestry. The film’s two stars are Holly, a charismatically energetic and wistful little girl who at times looks like a Margaret Keane painting waif come to life, and Cameron, an overweight kid with an unusual flair for challenging counselors’ patience and making enemies among his peers.

Bruce Bennett (July 18)

INTERVIEW
R, 83 minutes

The ghost of Theo Van Gogh hovers through the remake of his 2003 film “Interview.” From his crew to his camerawork, Van Gogh’s presence is constantly felt.

A lesser film would buckle beneath the weight of a martyr’s memory, but it is a tribute to Steve Buscemi and Van Gogh’s original work that “Interview” surpasses its weighty premise.

Van Gogh’s films often focused on the battle of the sexes by spotlighting only two main characters and pitting them against each other; in “Interview,” the face-off is between a celebrity sex symbol (Sienna Miller) and a reporter assigned to profile her (Mr. Buscemi, who also directs).

After a typically cinematic event leads the pair to spend the evening in her loft, they alternately spar and connect. Hints of sadism, selfishness, and incest inform the plot, but the intelligence of “Interview” is in its restraint. Though the pair connect and share various intimacies, the film doesn’t scramble to resolve the conflicts established at the outset.

M.K. (July 13)

INTRODUCING THE DWIGHTS
R, 106 minutes

Jeanie Dwight (Brenda Blethyn) is an aging, British-born comedian specializing in the sort of double thought of as “naughty” but has long since given way to something much more raunchy. Somehow she’s managed to hang on through all the changes in comedic fashion of the last 30 years — to hang on, but not to make a living at it.

In her less optimistic moments, Jeanie clings to whatever cold comfort she can derive from the fantasy that she had been headed for super-stardom until, as she tells her sons Tim and Mark, “you boys arrived and brought a luminous career to a grinding halt. Not that I’m bitter.”

Tim (Khan Chittenden) is trying to make a go of it as a freelance mover with his own truck, while Mark (Richard Wilson) is mentally handicapped and spends much of his time home alone, locking himself in the bathroom, as per mum’s instructions.

“Dwights” is a coming-of-age and breaking-away movie of a peculiarly Australian kind. It’s also a study in failure and self-deception, but a joyous and touching one.

James Bowman (July 6)