Film Festival a la Carte: Reviews of Independent, Documentary, and Foreign Films
New on DVD/Blu Ray/On Demand
Posted by Kent Turner on June 11, 2013
Cannes Film Festival Winners
The main difference that sets the Cannes Film Festival apart from other fests is the anticipation: you will want to see the films debuting in the competition, especially if they...
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,...
11 Flowers
Directed by Wang Xiaoshuai
Produced by Xiaoshuai, Isabelle Glachant, Didar Domehri, Lü Dong, Laurent Baudens & Gaël Nouaille
Written by Xiaoshuai & Lao Ni
Released by...
Lore
Directed by Cate Shortland
Produced by Karsten Stöter, Liz Watts, Paul Watts, Paul Welsh & Benny Dreschel
Written by Shortland & Robin Mukherjee, based on the novel The...
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,...
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...
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...
El Sicario, Room 164
Directed & Photographed by Gianfranco Rosi
Produced by Serge Lalou & Gianfranco Rosi
Original story by Charles Bowden
Released by Icarus Films
Spanish with English...