LEE GRANT. ACTOR. FILMMAKER at Film Forum (through Feb. 12). Although Grant is probably best known as an actress — she won an Oscar for “Shampoo” — this retrospective mixes her onscreen work with documentaries that she directed, one of which, “Down and Out in America,” a portrait of poverty, won an Oscar itself. Grant will appear at the screening on Monday for a Q. and A. with the documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple. She will also be at Film Forum on Saturday with the drag artist Charles Busch for a showing of “What Sex Am I?,” a 1985 documentary about transgender life in the United States.

212-727-8110, filmforum.org

ON THE PROCESS at the Metrograph (through Dec. 20). This week is your last chance to catch this theater’s series on artists at work. Peter Watkins’s “Edvard Munch” (on Sunday) uses a variety of devices to probe the mind of the Norwegian painter, including commentary from actors playing Munch’s associates. Maurice Pialat’s “Van Gogh” (on Friday and Saturday) is a “good, quiet, rigorous film, made with intelligence and acted with earnest conviction,” Vincent Canby wrote in his 1992 review in The New York Times, adding that the film “never makes the mistake of equating a real-life view with what finally appears on Vincent’s canvas.”

212-660-0312, metrograph.com