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 […]
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 […]
