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 […]
Don’t panic if you couldn’t make it the recent New York Film Festival. Most of the films screened have an American distributor lined up and will open in the upcoming months, like the acclaimed A Separation and The Kid on the Bike. The claustrophobic cacophony Carnage, which opened the event, will be released on December […]
The New York Film Festival has gone back to a basic rule: you gotta have a splashy opening night. For programmers, more thought is often put into the selection of this event than any other selection—it sets the tone and defines what the program represents. The status of last year’s opener, the edgy, big-budget The […]
Directed by Anne Sewitsky
Produced by Synnove Horsdal
Written by Ragnhild Tronvoll
Released by Magnolia Pictures
Norwegian with English subtitles
Norway. 88 min. Rated R
With Agnes Kittelsen, Joachim Rafaelsen, Maibritt Saerens, Henrik Rafaelsen, Oskar Hernaes Bradso & Ram Shihab Ebedy
The title of Norwegian filmmaker Anne Sewitsky’s debut deliberately sounds like an over-eager pep talk, or possibly a bitter rebuke, […]
Edited, Written & Directed by Andrew Haigh
Produced by Tristan Goligher
Released by Sundance Selects
UK. 86 min. Not rated
With Tom Cullen & Chris New
Two young good-looking guys in their twenties hook up, exchange numbers the morning after, meet that same afternoon and then again that night before one of them has to head off thousands of miles […]
