Friday’s ML openings: Spike Lee goes Greek

No word yet on the mainstream openings. But the Magic Lantern is reporting two new Friday releases:

“Heart of a Dog” : Known as a performance artist, Laurie Anderson turns to documentary filmmaking to meditate over the death of her beloved dog. Cue the Beethoven.

“Chi-Raq” : Spike Lee is making a number of best-of-2015 lists with this adaptation/updating of Aristophanes’ play “Lysistrata” set during a time of gang violence in Chicago. Lee, it seems, may be working out an Oedipus complex. (Yeah, I know, Sophocles wrote the “Oedipus” trilogy . But the joke was too good to pass up.)

I’ll pass on the specific mainstream openings when they’re available.