On today’s slate: Italian movies in Marin, plus new releases featuring June Squibb, Emma Thompson and a controversial true-crime series.
The Italian Film Festival of Marin County launches its 48th-anniversary edition Saturday. Six films screen over six weeks in Angelico Concert Hall on the Dominican University of California campus in San Rafael, at 4:30 and 7 p.m. Organizers promise high-quality films from Italy and an authentic Italian atmosphere; the Sept. 27 opening film is “A World Apart,” a dramedy by Riccardo Milani about a teacher who has relocated from Rome to a tranquil village who takes race-against-time action to keep his tiny school from closing.
On Oct. 4 it’s “High Stakes,” a comedy set in a hospital ward…