“Birdman: Or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance,” April 15, 2015 (2014), DVD. We both liked and appreciated this weird, incredibly choreographed Oscar-winning auteur piece from Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu that looks at a Hollywood sci-fi action star (Michael Keaton, who of course played Batman) trying to revive his career at the next level by writing, producing, directing and starring in a Broadway stage version of Raymond Carver’s “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love”. Between dealing with costars like Edward Norton’s narcissistic, arrogant, and talented Mike, his in-recovery daughter (Naomi Watts), turf-conscious Broadway critics, and his decomposing insecurity-plagued psyche, he is going quite crazy. Birdman (the costume was cut from the molds used for Keaton’s Batman costume) is alive and well and living in the NYC theater district. Emotionally distant, this is nonetheless a remarkable bit of filmmaking and Keaton is quite wonderfully, toast. Hollywood always rewards films about its favorite subject, itself. See the short about the making of the film