Written & Directed by Ritesh Batra
Produced by Guneet Monga, Anurag Kashyap & Arun Rangachari
Released by Sony Picture Classics
India. 104 min. Rated PG
With Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur & Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Writer/director Ritesh Batra’s debut feature, The Lunchbox, was originally conceived as a documentary about Mumbai’s Dabbawallahs —a community of 5000 dabba (lunchbox) deliverymen who, in a […]
Claire Stewart’s second year at the London Film Festival helm set sail with the European premiere of Paul Greengrass’s Captain Philips and ended with the world premiere of John Lee Hancock’s Saving Mr. Banks, both beamed simultaneously by satellite to 30 towns and cities across the UK and Ireland. At the closing press conference, Tom […]
Directed by Ben Wheatley
Produced by Anna Higgs
Written by Amy Jump
Released by Drafthouse Films
UK. 91 min. Not rated
With Reece Shearsmith, Michael Smiley, Julian Barrett, Ryan Pope, Peter Ferdinando & Richard Glover
Ben Wheatley, the award-winning director of Down Terrace, a domestic gangster movie; the crime/horror hybrid Kill List; and the serial-killer comedy of manners Sightseers, continues his […]
Written & Directed by Clio Barnard, inspired by the short story by Oscar Wilde
Produced by Tracy O’Riordan
Released by Sundance Selects
UK. 93 min. Not rated
With Connor Chapman, Shaun Thomas, Sean Gilder & Siobhan Finneran
British director Clio Barnard’s career began as an artist/filmmaker, and her work in video was seen in galleries such as Tate Modern and […]
Written & Directed by Joel & Ethan Coen
Produced by Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen & Joel Coen
Released by CBS Films
USA. 105 min. Rated R
With Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, Garrett Hedlund, Justin Timberlake, F. Murray Abraham, Stark Sands, Adam Driver, Jeanine Serralles, Max Casella, Ethan Phillips, Robin Bartlett, Jerry Grayson & Max Casella
From the […]
Produced & Directed by Ulrich Seidl
Written by Veronika Franz & Ulrich Seidl
Released by Strand Releasing
German with English subtitles
Austria/Germany/France, 92 min. Not rated
With Melanie Lenz, Joseph Lorenz & Verena Lehbauer
Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise Trilogy was originally conceived as a single film of interwoven stories that follows three female family members on a quest during their separate summer […]
Directed by Stephen Frears
Produced by Gabrielle Tana, Steve Coogan & Tracey Seaward
Written by Coogan & Jeff Pope, based on Martin Sixsmith’s book The Lost Child of Philomena Lee
Released by the Weinstein Company
UK/USA/France. 98 min. Rated PG-13
With Judi Dench, Steve Coogan, Sophie Kennedy Clark, Mare Winningham, Barbara Jefford, Ruth McCabe & Anna Maxwell
Philomena, directed by Stephen […]
Directed by Alexander Payne
Produced by Albert Berger & Ron Yerxa
Written by Bob Nelson
Released by Paramount Vantage
USA 115 min. Rated R
With Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb, Bob Odenkirk & Stacy Keach
Alexander Payne has built a unique career exploring life’s comedy and tragedy through indelible three-dimensional everymen and women. Following his 2011 adaptation of Kaui […]
Directed by James Franco
Written by James Franco and Matt Rager, based on the novel by William Faulkner
Produced by Lee Caplin, Matt O’Toole, Rob van Norden, Caroline Aragon, Miles Levy & Vince Jolivette
USA. 110 min. Rated R
Released by Millennium Entertainment
With James Franco, Tim Blake Nelson, Danny McBride, Jim Parrack, Logan Marshall-Green, Ahna O’Reilly, Beth Grant & […]
