Directed by Charlie McDowell
Produced by Mel Eslyn
Written by Justin Lader
Released by Radius/TWC
USA. 91 min. Rated R
With Mark Duplass, Elisabeth Moss and Ted Danson
This comedy, with a couple of couples who are easily confused in their mixed-up match-ups, owes something to A Midsummer Night’s Dream. To its great credit, it also manages to be nearly as […]
Directed by Mitra Farahani
Produced by Marjaneh Moghimi
Released by Music Box Films
Farsi with English subtitles
USA/Iran/France. 97 min. Not rated
Some people make living an art form. This portrait of the artist as an old man follows Bahman Mohassess, an exiled Iranian painter and sculptor, as he attempts to live (and die) according to his own aesthetic.
At first, […]
Produced and Directed by Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren
Directed by Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren
Released by Drafthouse Films
USA. 110 min. Not rated
In August 1972, John Wojtowicz robbed a bank in Brooklyn, taking hostages and enduring a 13-hour standoff with the police. The unsuccessful heist granted Wojtowicz 15 minutes of fame, which he tried to spread […]
Directed by Pieter Gaspersz
Written by Sabrina Gennarino
Released by Paladin
USA. 100 min. Not rated
With Kathleen Quinlan, John Doman, Pablo Schreiber, Sabrina Gennarino, Adam Scarimbolo, Diane Neal, Darrin Dewitt Henson
Stalin is alleged to have called a single death a tragedy and a million deaths a statistic. Art can whittle the great events of our lives down to […]
Directed by John Butler
Produced by Rebecca O’Flanagan and Robert Walpole
Written by John Butler and Peter McDonald
Released by Tribeca Film
Ireland. 94 min. Not rated
With Andrew Scott, Hugh O’Conor, Peter McDonald, Brian Gleeson, and Amy Huberman
If you’ve always thought, “Boy, it would be nice to have an Irish version of the Hangover films, but with a little […]
Written and Directed by Chris Mason Johnson
Produced by Johnson and Chris Martin
Released by Variance Films
USA. 89 min. Not rated
With Scott Marlowe, Matthew Risch, Kristoffer Cusick, Katherine Wells, Damon Sperber, and Kevin Clarke
In this appealing indie, the story of Frankie (Scott Marlowe), a young gay man in 1985 San Francisco, is used as a microcosm of […]
Directed by Megan Griffiths
Written by Huck Botko and Emily Wachtel
Released by IFC Films
USA. 96 min. Not rated
With Toni Collette, Thomas Haden Church, Ryan Eggold, Oliver Platt, Nina Arianda, Ahna O’Reilly, Amy Seimetz
In an unfortunate parallel, a movie about a woman hunting the specter of a former romance is itself haunted by the ghosts of films […]
Directed by Kelly Reichardt
Produced by Neil Kopp, Anish Savjani, Chris Maybach, Saemi Kim, Rodrigo Teixeira
Written by Jon Raymond & Kelly Reichardt
Released by Cinedigm Entertainment
USA. 112 min. Rated R
With Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning, Peter Sarsgaard, Alia Shawkat, Logan Miller, Kai Lennox, Katherine Waterston, James Le Gros
What’s to be done to save the environment? There’s an early […]
Tribeca Film Festival, which has brought audiences Eddie: The Sleepwalking Cannibal and Trollhunter in the past, brings two more B-movies with tell-it-like-it-is titles in its genre laden Midnight section, plus the world premiere of an amicable American indie with TV stars Leighton Meester and Gillian Jacobs.
Life Partners
Directed by Susanna Fogel
Written by Susanna Fogel and […]
