BIG SCREEN

OPENING WEDNESDAY

Michael Jackson: This Is It (PG) -- High School Musical director Kenny Ortega, who was collaborating with the singer on a series of London concerts, culls a concert film and cinematic memorial (with some sequences in 3D) from the hundreds of hours of footage taped during Jackson's rehearsals for the shows.

OPENING FRIDAY

An Education (PG-13) -- Novelist Nick Hornby (High Fidelity, About a Boy) tackles his first screenplay, an adaptation of Lynn Barber's memoir about a 16-year-old girl (Best Actress Oscar contender Carey Mulligan) who falls for an older man (Peter Sarsgaard) in 1961 in London. Directed by Lone Scherfig (Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself). The early reviews have been nothing nothing short of sensational.

The Damned United (R) -- Michael Sheen (The Queen) stars as Brian Clough, the manager who takes over England's wildly popular soccer team Leeds United and tries to clean up the players' unsportsmanlike conduct on and off the field.

Tetro (R) -- Francis Ford Coppola's second film after his self-imposed filmmaking exile (his first was Youth Without Youth) centers on a young man (Aiden Ehrenreich) who travels to Buenos Aires to find his long-lost older brother (Vincent Gallo). The movie will be shown next weekend at the Miami Beach Cinematheque, along with a live webcast Q&A session with Coppola. Visit www.mbcinema.com for details.

-- RENE RODRIGUEZ

SMALL SCREEN

The League (10:30 p.m. Thursday, FX) -- Six infantile guys (one of them's technically a girl but clearly was born with the wrong body) try to escape their tedious lives through a fantasy-football league in this sitcom.

Voces (10 p.m. Sunday, WPBT-PBS 2) -- This showcase of Latino films hosted by Edward James Olmos turns its eye on Cuba with Dream Havana, a documentary about two childhood friends -- one who left the island for Miami and one who stayed.

American Experience (9 p.m. Monday, WPBT-PBS 2) -- Joe Biden last week said the United States is in a depression. Judge for yourself by watching The 1930s, a five-part American Experience look at life in the Great Depression. First up: an episode on the stock market crash of 1929.

-- GLENN GARVIN

Let Miami Herald TV critic Glenn Garvin program your TiVo! Just click on his best bets for the week at www.tivo.com/guruguide.

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