This year’s Open Roads: New Italian Cinema opens on the same weekend in New York as Alice Rohrwacher’s audacious debut, Corpo Celeste. Through the perplexed eyes of a 12-year-old girl on the verge of her confirmation, the director questions what it means to be a Christian and the values of contemporary Italians, who are out […]
Written & Directed by Eric Toledano & Olivier Nakache
Produced by Nicolas Duval Adassovsky, Yann Zenou & Laurent Zeitoun
Released by the Weinstein Company
French with English subtitles
France. 112 min. Rated R
With François Cluzet, Omar Sy, Anne Le Ny, Audrey Fleurot, Clothilde Mollet & Alba Gaïa Bellugi
By the midway point of the French buddy comedy The Intouchables, you’ll […]
Directed by Wes Anderson
Produced by Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales & Jeremy Dawson
Written by Anderson & Roman Coppola
Released by Focus Features
USA. 100 min. Rated PG-13
With Bruce Willis , Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Jason Schwartzman & Bob Balaban
Next year marks the centennial of Benjamin Britten’s birth, and though […]
Director by Yoichi Sai
Producer by Nozomu Enoki, Ichiro Yamamoto
Written by: Shoichi Maruyama & Yoshihiro Nakamura, based on the novel Modoken Quill No Issho by Ryohei Akimoto
Released by Music Box Films
Japanese with English subtitles
Japan. 100 min. Not Rated (it should be rated G)
With Kaoru Kobayashi, Kippei Shiina, Teruyuki Kagawa, Keiko Toda & Shinobu Terajima
Director Yoichi Sai […]
Directed by Andrei Zvyagintsev
Produced by Alexander Rodnyansky & Sergey Melkumov
Written by Oleg Negin & Zvyagintsev
Released by Zeitgeist Films
Russian with English subtitles.
Russia. 109 min. Not rated
With Nadezhda Markina, Andrei Smirnov, Yelena Lyadova, Alexey Rozin, Evgenia Konushkina & Igor Ogurtsov
Sometimes a festival jury gets it right, recognizing an unknown filmmaker who more than lives up to […]
Edited, Written & Directed Hirokazu Kore-eda
Produced by Kentaro Koike & Hijiri Taguchi
Released by Magnolia Pictures
Japanese with English subtitles
Japan. 128 min. Not rated
With Koki Maeda, Ohshiro Maeda, Ryoga Hayashi, Seinosuke Nagayoshi, Kyara Uchida, Kanna Hashimoto, Rento Isobe, Nene Ohtsuka, Joe Odagiri, Yui Natsukawa & Masami Nagasawa
Never for a moment did I think that the two boys […]
During its final days, the Tribeca Film Festival world premiered three New York-centric fine arts documentaries. The most penetrating of the trio, Wagner’s Dream is an engrossing look behind the curtain of the Metropolitan Opera, and is the perhaps best film about that art form, fictional or otherwise, though it may have that field […]
Could the higher quality in this year’s world narrative competition be the result of administration changes administration, namely the appointment of Frédéric Boyer, formerly of the Cannes Film Festival, as artistic director of the Tribeca Film Festival? Whatever the reason, there has been a step up in this section, which has in years past been […]
Written & Directed by Philippe Falardeau, based on the stage play by Evelyne de la Chenelière
Produced by Luc Déry & Kim McCraw
Released by Music Box Films
French with English subtitles.
Canada. 94 min. Rated PG-13
With Fellag, Sophie Nélisse, Émilien Néron, Danielle Proulx & Brigitte Poupart
Director Philippe Falardeau certainly sets his sights high, meeting a challenge head-on: […]
