Mr. Turner

Mike Leigh's painstakingly rendered biographical portrait of groundbreaking 19th-century landscape painter J.M.W. Turner boasts a bravura title performance from Timothy Spall as the eccentric artist, whose gentle care at rendering the world's beauty was only matched by his prickly brusqueness with the people who inhabited it. Dorothy Atkinson, Marion Bailey, Paul Jesson, Lesley Manville also star. 150 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, DVS Dolby Digital 5.1, French Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1; Subtitles: English (SDH), French, Spanish; audio commentary; deleted scene.