Written & Directed by Michael Haneke Produced by Margaret Menegoz, Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschika & Michael Katz Released by Sony Pictures Classics French with English subtitles Austria/France/Germany. 127 min. Rated PG-13 With Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Alexandre Tharaud & Isabelle Huppert Throughout his career—from his first feature, 1989’s The Seventh Continent, about a family’s […]
Directed by Maïwenn Produced by Alain Attal Written by Maïwenn & Emmanuelle Bercot Released by Sundance Selects French with English subtitles France. 127 min. Not rated With Karin Viard, Marina Foïs, Joeystarr, Maïwenn & Emmanuelle Bercot
The opening of Polisse announces the assuredness of actress-turned-writer/director Maïwenn’s study of Paris cops working in the Child Protection Unit. […]
Written & Directed by Gérald Hustache-Mathieu
Produced by Isabelle Madelaine
Released by First Run Features
French with English subtitles
France. 102 min. Not rated
With Jean-Paul Rouve, Sophie Quinton, Guillaume Gouix, Olivier Rabourdin, Clara Ponsot & Arsinée Khanjian
She might be the guiding spirit behind the fictional Broadway musical that’s the subject of the television drama Smash, but the last place […]
Directed by Julien Leclercq Written by Leclercq & Simon Moutairou Produced by Leclercq, Julien Madon & Marc Olla French & Arabic with English subtitles Released by Screen Media Films France. 90 min. Rated R With Vincent Elbaz, Aymen Saïdi & Mélanie Bernier Director Julien Leclercq’s grippingly re-creates the true story of the hijacking by Arab […]
Directed by Danis Tanovic Produced by Cedomir Kolar, Amra Baksic Camo, Marc Bachet and Mirsad Purivatra Written by Tanovic & Ivica Dikic, based on Dikic’s novel Released by Strand Releasing Bosnian with English subtitles Bosnia and Herzegovina/France/UK/Germany/Solvenia/Belgium/Serbia. 113 min. Not rated With Miki Manojlovic, Mira Furlan, Boris Ler & Jovana Stupljanin Bosnian director Danis Tanovic […]
Written, Produced, & Directed by Réne Féret Released by Music Box Films French with English subtitles France. 120 min. Not rated With Marie Féret, Marc Barbé, Delphine Chuillot, David Moreau, Clovis Fouin & Lisa Féret Mozart’s Sister delicately explores how the soon-to-be-immortal composer’s sister lived in the wrong era— and in the wrong gender. Director […]
Directed by Ralph Fiennes Produced by Fiennes, John Logan, Gabrielle Tana, Julia Taylor-Stanley & Colin Vaines Written by Logan, based on the play by William Shakespeare Released by the Weinstein Company UK. 123 min. Rated R With Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Brian Cox, Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica Chastain, John Kani, James Nesbett, Paul Jesson, Lubna Azabel […]
Direction, Sound & Editing by Frederick Wiseman Produced by Pierre Olivier Bardet & Wiseman Relealsed by Zipporah Films English & French with English subtitles USA/France. 134 min. Not rated The subjects of Crazy Horse are drop-dead gorgeous, and have their nude bodies caressed by the camera for much of the 134-minute running time. But since […]
Produced & Directed by Charles Evans Jr. Released by Variance Films USA. 102 min. Rated PG-13 The current demonization of Wall Street may have helped trigger the current protest movement, but there’s an even more hated entity in the minds of most Americans: Big Tobacco. Cigarette companies are the most egregious example of corporate […]
