Film Festival a la Carte: Reviews of Independent, Documentary, and Foreign Films
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Posted by Christopher Bourne on April 11, 2013
Upstream Color
Written & Directed by Shane Carruth
Produced by Carruth, Casey Gooden & Ben LeClair
Released by erbp Film
USA. 96 min. Not rated
With Amy Seimetz, Shane Carruth, Andrew...
Future Weather
Written & Directed by Jenny Deller
Produced by Deller & Kristin Fairweather
Released by Lipstick Pictures
USA 100 min. Not rated
With Perla Haney-Jardine, Amy Madigan,...
Happy People
Directed by Werner Herzog & Dmitry Vasyukov
Produced by Christoph Fisser, Vladimir Perepelkin, Nick N. Raslan & Charlie Woebcken
Written by Herzog & Rudolph...
Zero Dark Thirty
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow
Produced by Mark Boal, Bigelow & Megan Ellison
Written by Boal
Released by Columbia Pictures
USA. 156 min. Rated R
With Jessica Chastain, Jason...
The Best of 2012
With so many end-of-the-year releases garnering awards and nominations, you might ask the various selection committees and critics groups, “Where have you been?” Going over...
Django Unchained
Written & Directed by Quentin Tarantino
Produced by Stacy Sher, Reginald Hudlin & Pilar Savone
Released by the Weinstein Company
USA. 165 min. Rated R
With Jamie Foxx,...
Hyde Park on Hudson
Directed by Roger Michell
Produced by Kevin Loader, David Aukin & Michell
Written by Richard Nelson, based on Closest Companion: The Unknown Story of the Intimate Friendship...
Beware of Mr. Baker
Directed & Written by Jay Bulger
Produced by Andrew Karsch, Fisher Stevens, Erik H. Gordon & Bulger
Released by SnagFilms/Insurgent Media
USA. 92 min. Not Rated
Beware of...
The Central Park Five
Written, Produced, & Directed by Ken Burns, David McMahon & Sarah Burns
Released by Sundance Selects
USA. 119 min. Not rated
Made by Ken Burns, along with his daughter...
Killing Them Softly
Written & Directed by Andrew Dominik, based on the novel Cogan’s Trade by George V. Higgins
Produced by Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Steve Schwartz, Paula Mae Schwartz &...
Wagner & Me
Produced & Directed by Patrick McGrady
Released by First Run Features
UK. 89 min. Not rated
Based on countless movies, the music of Richard Wagner (Hitler’s favorite...
Rust and Bone
Directed by Jacques Audiard
Written by Audiard & Thomas Bidegain, based on the short-story collection Rust and Bone by Craig Davidson
Released by Sony Pictures...
A Royal Affair
Directed by Nikolaj Arcel
Produced by Louise Vesth, Sisse Graum Jorgensen & Meta Foldager
Written by Rasmus Heisterberg & Arcel
Released by Magnolia Pictures.
Danish with...
Starlet
Directed by Sean Baker
Produced by Blake Ashman Kipervaser
Written by Baker & Chris Bergoch
Released by Music Box Films
USA. 104 Min. Not rated
With Dree Hemingway, Besedka...
How to Grow a Band
Directed by Mark Meatto
Produced by Michael Bohlmann & Meatto
Released by International Film Circuit
USA/UK. 88 min. Not Rated
How to Grow a Band has a promising story to...
1911
Directed by Zhang Li & Jackie Chan
Produced by Wang Zhebin & Chan
Written by Wang Xingdong & Chen Baoguang
Released by Well Go USA/Variance Films
Mandarin with English...