Written & Directed by Andrea Arnold, based on a screen story by Olivia Hetreed & the novel by Emily Brontë
Produced by Robert Bernstein, Douglas Rae & Kevin Loader
Released by Oscilloscope Laboratories
UK. 128 min. Not rated
With Kaya Scodelario, James Howson, Solomon Glave, Shannon Beer, Simone Jackson, Lee Shaw, Nichola Burley & James Northcote
Of the various film […]
With two extra screens at its disposal, the New York Film Festival has added more sidebars to its programming, which means additional events have been packed into its 17 days. It was once possible to see a generous slice of what the festival had to offer. Now it’s an uphill battle just to see many […]
At first glance, this year’s New York Film Festival is almost unrecognizable—a departure from its slimmer, more restrictive, and less glitzy programming of only a few years ago. What was once a small, curated festival has expanded, thanks to more screening space, but also perhaps due to an organizational objective to wedge itself as a […]
South Korean director Kim Ki-duk’s monochromatic, blood-soaked Jacobean tale of revenge and forgiveness, Pieta, won the Golden Lion award last weekend during a chaotic awards ceremony televised live on the RAI Cinema channel. It triumphed over several richer films, like Ulrich Seidl’s comedy of cruelty, Paradise: Faith, and Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder (far from […]
I don’t want to say that the European auteur film has hit a dry spell (although it did cross my mind), but many such films either fell flat or seemed too familiar in the opening six days of this year’s Venice Film Festival—at least nine were all-out disappointments. Thankfully, three films, all from the Middle […]
Written & Directed by Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud, based on the graphic novel by Satrapi
Produced by Hengameh Panahi
Released by Sony Pictures Classics.
French, with English subtitles.
France/Germany/Belgium. 91 min. Rated PG-13
With Mathieu Amalric, Edouard Baer, Maria de Medeiros, Golshifteh Farahani, Eric Caravaca, Chiara Mastroianni, Mathis Bour, Serge Avédikian, Jamel Debbouze & Isabella Rossellini
Marjane Satrapi and […]
Directed by Lee Toland Krieger
Produced by Lee Nelson, Jennifer Todd & Suzanne Todd
Written by Rashida Jones & Will McCormack
Released by Sony Pictures Classics
USA. 89 min. Rated R
With Rashida Jones, Andy Samberg, Chris Messina, Ari Graynor, Eric Christian Olsen, Will McCormack, Rebecca Dayan, Rich Sommer, Matthew Del Negro, Rafi Gavron, Elijah Wood & Emma Roberts
Relief has […]
Written & Directed by Michael Winterbottom, based on Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Produced by Winterbottom & Melissa Parmenter
Released by Sundance Selects
English & Hindi with English subtitles
UK. 118 min. Rated R
With Freida Pinto, Riz Ahmed & Roshan Seth
Not wasting any time, Michael Winterbottom hurls Thomas Hardy’s 1891 novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles into […]
Written & Directed by Woody Allen
Produced by Letty Aronson, Stephen Tenenbaum, Giampaolo Letta & Faruk Alatan
Released by Sony Pictures Classics
English & Italian with English subtitles
USA/Italy/Spain. 112 min. Rated R
With Woody Allen, Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Penélope Cruz, Judy Davis, Jesse Eisenberg, Greta Gerwig, Ellen Page, Alison Pill, Flavio Parenti, Alessandro Tiberi, Alessandra Mastronardi, Fabio Armiliato […]
