Directed by Phyllida Lloyd
Produced by Damian Jones
Written by Abi Morgan
Released by the Weinstein Company
UK/France. 105 min. Rated PG-13
With Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Olivia Colman, Alexandra Roach, Harry Lloyd, Roger Allam, Iain Glen, Richard E. Grant & Anthony Head
In a recent New York Times interview, Meryl Streep admitted she couldn’t resist playing Margaret Thatcher, the first […]
Directed by Fábio Barreto
Produced by Luiz Carlos Barreto & Paula Barreto
Written by Daniel Tendler, Denise Paraná & Fernando Bonassi, based on the book by Paraná Released by New Yorker Films
Portuguese with English subtitles
Brazil. 128 min. Not rated
With Rui Ricardo Diaz, Felipe Falanga, Guilherme Tortolio, Glória Pires, Cléo Pires, Juliana Baroni, Milhem Cortaz & Sóstenes Vidal
Even […]
Written & Directed by Tran Anh Hung, based on the novel by Haruki Murakami
Produced by Shinji Ogawa
Released by Soda Pictures/Red Flag Releasing
Japanese, with English subtitles.
Japan. 133 min. Not rated
With Kenichi Matsuyama, Rinko Kikuchi, Kiko Mizuhara, Reika Kirishima, Kengo Kora, Eriko Hatsune & Tetsuji Tamayama (Nagasawa)
Eighteen years ago, Tran Anh Hung became the first—and so far only—Vietnamese […]
Go for broke—that could be the motto for many of this year’s noteworthy films. Terrence Malick created the world out of the Big Bang, all set to a pseudo-Wagnerian score, in The Tree of Life. Even Werner Herzog ventured back thousands of years to ponder life during the Ice Age—and in 3D, a format that […]
Directed by Tomas Alfredson
Written by Bridget O’Connor & Peter Straughan, based on the novel by John Le Carré
Produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner & Robyn Slovo
Released by Focus Features.
UK/France/Germany. 128 min. Rated R
With Gary Oldman, Kathy Burke, Benedict Cumberbatch, David Dencik, Colin Firth, Stephen Graham, Tom Hardy, Ciaran Hinds, John Hurt, Toby Jones, Svetlana Khodchenkova, […]
Directed by Steve McQueen
Produced by Iain Canning & Emile Sherman
Written by Steve McQueen & Abi Morgan
Released by Fox Searchlight
UK. 99 min. Rated NC-17
With Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale & Nicole Beharie
Earnestly somber, Shame arrives with a lot of baggage, namely an envelope-pushing amount of sex and nudity. (The NC-17-rated film arouses the type of […]
Written & Directed by Michel Hazanavicius
Produced by Thomas Langmann
Released by the Weinstein Company
France/USA. 100 min. Rated PG-13
With Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, James Cromwell, Penelope Ann Miller, Malcolm McDowell, Missi Pyle, Beth Grant & John Goodman
Studded with easy-to-spot film references, the black-and-white silent film The Artist is the type of film that movie buffs wished they had […]
Directed by Marius Holst
Produced by Karin Julsrud, Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre, Ewa Puszczynska, Mathilde Dedye & Johannes Ahlund
Written by Dennis Magnusson
Released by Film Movement
Norwegian with English subtitles
Norway/France/Sweden/Poland. 115 min. Not rated
With Stellan Skarsgard, Benjamin Helstad, Kirstoffer Joner, Trond Nilssen, Ellen Dorrit Petersen & Magnus Langlete
There is no way that the filmmakers of this Norwegian escape drama […]
Directed by Tatiana Issa & Raphael Alvarez
Produced by Tria Productions & Canal Brasil
English & Portuguese with English subtitles
Brazil. 110 min. Not rated
“Gays don’t die. They turn into glitter.” These words of wisdom were told to co-director Tatiana Issa when she was a girl by her father, a technician for the Brazilian gender-bending cabaret act Dzi […]
