If you didn't see the Public's production of Mother Courage last year in Central Park, John Walter's Theater of War (screening until Jan. 6 at Film Forum) will take you back to that electric performance by Meryl Streep in Brecht's classic work about politics, war and the choices one makes when under pressure. John P. McCarthy calls it a "a crash course in Marxist theory, the genesis and import of Mother Courage, and the life of playwright Bertolt Brecht." Check out the trailer here.
