Written and Directed by Uberto Pasolini
Produced by Pasolini, Christopher Simon, and Felix Vossen
Released by Tribeca Film
UK/Italy. 93 min. Not rated
With Eddie Marsan, Joanne Froggatt, Karen Drury, and Andrew Buchan
John May (Happy-Go-Lucky’s Eddie Marsan) has made a career of going to funerals. More specifically, he goes to the ones no one else attends. He selects music, […]
Directed by Andrea Pallaoro
Produced by Jonathan Venguer, Gina Resnick, Kyle Heller, and Eleonora Granata Jenkinson
Written by Andrea Pallaoro and Orlando Tirado
Released by the Vladar Company
USA. 97 min. Not rated
With Catalina Sandino Moreno and Brían F. O’Byrne
Medeas is the story of a rural family caught in the middle of a drought. Calling it a story is […]
Directed by James Marsh
Produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce and Anthony McCarten
Written by McCarten, based on the book Traveling to Infinity: My Life With Stephen by Jane Hawking
Released by Focus Features
UK. 123 min. Rated PG-13
With Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Charlie Cox, Emily Watson, Simon McBurney, and David Thewlis
In the early 1960s, Stephen Hawking […]
Written and Directed by Daniel Ribeiro
Released by Strand Releasing
Portuguese with English subtitles
Brazil. 96 min. Not rated
With Ghilherme Lobo, Fabio Audi, Tess Amorim, and Isabela Guasco
Stories of sexual awakening are abundant, but by creating a blind protagonist, writer/director Daniel Ribeiro has added a thought-provoking twist. Concerning desire, Ribeiro asks, in an interview, “Is it from all […]
Directed by Ian Thorpe
Produced by Eric Staley, Joey Abi-Loutfi, and Kevin Tostado
Written by Abi-Loutfi
Released by Sidecar Productions
USA. 91 min. Not rated
Starring Barrett Crake, Myko Olivier, Nikki Leonti, Eric Roberts, Martin Kove and Jon Gries
There are those for whom even the cheesiest of ’80s power ballads remain a guilty pleasure. That demographic will find similar enjoyment […]
Directed by Roman Polanski
Produced by Robert Benmussa and Alain Sarde
Written by Polanski & David Ives, based on the play by David Ives
Released by IFC Films
French with English Subtitles
France. 95 min. Not rated
With Emmanuelle Seigner and Mathieu Amalric
To unpack this work, one could say it is a translation and film adaptation of a play, which […]
Written & Directed by Jesse Moss
Produced by Moss and Amanda McBaine
Released by Drafthouse Films
USA. 101 min. Rated PG-13
Fracking has come to North Dakota in recent years, and with it came a job boom that has given the state the lowest unemployment rate in the country. Many filmmakers have focused on fracking’s environmental impact, most […]
Written and Directed by Hong Khaou
Produced by Dominic Buchanan
Released by Strand Releasing
English and Mandarin with English subtitles
UK. 91 min. Not rated
With Ben Whishaw, Cheng Pei Pei, Andrew Leung, Naomi Christie and Peter Bowles
The story here is simple enough, but the telling is artful. Ben Whishaw plays Richard, a young man trying to make a connection […]
Directed by Catherine Gund
Produced by Gund and Tanya Salvaratnam
USA. 82 min. Not rated
This look at the life and work of choreographer Elizabeth Streb features some genuinely jaw-dropping moments. They are compiled from a career spent pushing the limits of motion in search of a kind of human flight. Of course, the first successful airplane was […]
