Summertime

Max Ophüls’ third feature in America, “Caught,” from 1949, is an evocative amalgam of a domesticated melodramatic tragedy and a dynamic film noir sensibility.

Room 4 Rent, a seven and a half minute film premiering at SXSW this year is an excerpt from director Max Weissberg’s first feature-length film called Summertime, yet to be released. The screener that arrived at my house came with a small square package that I thought at first might be one of those wet …