Brazil has been well represented throughout the years at the annual New Directors/New Films series, and this year Marcelo Lordello’s They’ll Come Back arrives, following last year’s Neighboring Sounds, which made quite a splash. Here’s hoping for more of a Brazilian new wave offering engaging, clear-eyed, and varied vivisections of contemporary life, of both rich […]
Directed by Matteo Garrone
Produced by Domenico Procacci & Garrone
Written by Maurizio Braucci, Ugo Chiti, Garrone & Massimo Gaudioso, based on a story by Garrone & Gaudioso
Released by Oscilloscope Laboratories
Italian, with English subtitles
Italy/France. 115 min. Not rated
With Aniello Arena, Loredana Simioli, Nando Paone, Graziella Marina, Nello Iorio, Raffaele Ferrante & Nunzia Schiano
The U.S. version of the […]
As usual, the mid-winter Film Society of Lincoln Center mini-fest is strong in variety—an animated film here, a biopic there, some audience pleasing and others inscrutable—but it doesn’t necessarily represent the best of what France has to offer. Conspicuously missing in the lineup are the latest from star sourpuss Jean-Pierre Bacri in the droll rom-com […]
Directed by Raúl Ruiz
Produced by Christian Aspee & François Margolin
Written by Ruiz, based on original stories by Hernán del Solar
Released by Cinema Guild.
Spanish & French with English subtitles
Chile/France. 101 min. Not rated
With Christian Vadim, Sergio Hernandez, Valentina Vargad, Chamila Rodriguez, Santiago Figueroa, Pedro Villagra & Sergio Schmied
Young college students, all men in suit and tie, […]
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 Clarke, Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Ehle, Mark Strong, Kyle Chandler, Edgar Ramirez, James Gandolfini, Chris Pratt, Callan Mulvey, Fares Fares, Reda Kateb & Stephen Dillane
Much ink and pixels have been spent on the […]
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 their 10 best lists, some overlap is inevitable, but it’s as if they have had amnesia for 10 months, overlooking many films released before November. And if you had a […]
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 composer) has a long road ahead to break away from its militaristic bombast and fascist taint. Lina Wertmüller used “Flight of the Valkyries” to accompany a Nazi death camp montage in […]
Directed by Nikolaj Arcel
Produced by Louise Vesth, Sisse Graum Jorgensen & Meta Foldager
Written by Rasmus Heisterberg & Arcel
Released by Magnolia Pictures.
Danish with English subtitles
Denmark. 137 min. Rated R
With Mads Mikkelsen, Alicia Vikander, Mikkel Boe Folsgaard & David Dencik
Nikolaj Arcel, having co-written the first film version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, may also be […]
Directed by Christohe Barratier
Produced by Thomas Langmann
Written by Stephane Keller, Barratier & Philipe Lopes Curval, based on the novel by Louis Pergaud
Released by the Weinstein Company
France. 90 min. PG-13
With Guiluame Canet, Laetitia Casta, Kad Merad, Jean Texier & Clement Godefroy
Film festival fodder from the likes of Olivier Assayas, Claire Denis, or Leos Carax may be […]
