Film Festival a la Carte: Reviews of Independent, Documentary, and Foreign Films
New on DVD/Blu Ray/On Demand
Posted by Kent Turner on December 23, 2011
The Best of 2011
Go for broke—that could be the motto for many of this year’s noteworthy films. Terrence Malick created the world out of the Big Bang, all set to a pseudo-Wagnerian score, in...
Notable Genre DVDs and Blu-Rays of ...
We all know that countless titles are released for the home video market every year—in the genre category alone there’s too much for any individual to track, including me. Or...
Island of Lost Souls
Directed by Erle C Kenton
Written by Philip Wylie & Waldemar Young, based on The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells
Released by Criterion Collection
USA. 70 min. Not...
Without a Home
Directed by Rachel Fleischer
Produced by Joanna Adler & Fleischer
Released by Breaking Glass
USA. 74 min. Not rated
Rachel Fleischer’s documentary Without a Home is vital....
Sarah Palin: You Betcha!
Directed by Nick Broomfield & Joan ChurchillProduced by Marc Hoeferlin
Released by Freestyle Releasing
UK/USA. 90 min. Not rated
Trolling the frozen streets of Wasilla,...
The Last Circus
Written & Directed by Álex de la Iglesia
Produced by Gerardo Herrero & Mariela Besuievsky
Spanish with English subtitles
Released by Magnet Releasing
Spain/France. 105...
Life in a Day
Directed by Kevin Macdonald
Produced by Liza Marshall
Released by YouTube/Ridley Scott & Tony Scott/National Geographic Entertainment
USA. 90 min. Rated PG-13
Life in a Day...
Tabloid
Directed by Errol Morris
Produced by Julie Bilson Ahlberg & Mark Lipson
Released by Sundance Selects
USA. 87 min. Rated R
Newspapers recently published the obituary of Randall...
The Names of Love
Directed by Michel Leclerc
Produced by Caroline Adrien, Antoine Rein & Fabrice Goldstein
Written by Leclerc & Baya Kasmi
Released by Music Box Films
French with English...
Buck
Directed by Cindy Meehl
Produced by Julie Goldman
Released by Sundance Selects
USA. 88 min. Not Rated
By the time Buck Brannaman’s mother died at the age of 11, his already...
Viva Riva!
Written, Produced & Directed by Djo Tunda Wa Munga
Released by Music Box Films
Lingala & French with English subtitles
Democratic Republic of the Congo. 96 min. Rated...
Hesher
Directed by Spencer Susser
Produced by Lucy Cooper, Matthew Weaver, Scott Prisand, Natalie Portman, Spencer Susser, Johnny Lin & Win Sheridan
Written by Susser & David...