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 […]
Produced & Directed by Edmon Roch
Written by Roch, Isaki Lacuesta & María Hervera
Released by First Run Features
English, Spanish, Catalan & German with English subtitles
Spain. 87 min. Not rated
Greta Garbo, Leslie Howard, George C. Scott, and George Sanders: this thriller-cum-documentary offers the biggest cast of stars this year. The liberal excerpts from Mata Hari, The Longest […]
Directed by Simon Curtis
Produced by David Parfitt & Harvey Weinstein
Written by Adrian Hodges,based on the diaries by Colin Clark, The Prince, the Showgirl, and Me and My Week with Marilyn
Released by the Weinstein Company
USA/UK. 101 min. Rated R
With Michelle Williams, Eddie Remayne, Kenneth Branagh, Julia Ormond, Dominic Cooper, Emma Watson, Zoë Wanamaker, Dougray Scott, Judi […]
