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About Kevin Filipski

Kevin Filipski earned his master's degree in Cinema Studies from New York University and has written about the arts for the New York Times, Playbill, Time Out New York, and Brooklyn Paper, along with several websites.

Nobody Else but You

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 […]

By |May 11th, 2012|Crime, French|1 Comment

The Assault

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 […]

By |April 6th, 2012|Drama, French|Comments Off on The Assault

Cirkus Columbia

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 […]

By |February 25th, 2012|DVD/Streaming/On Demand, Foreign, Top Picks, War|Comments Off on Cirkus Columbia

Mozart’s Sister

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 […]

By |February 24th, 2012|Biopic, Costume Drama, French|0 Comments

Coriolanus

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 […]

By |January 21st, 2012|War|0 Comments

Crazy Horse

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 […]

By |January 18th, 2012|Documentary, Pop Culture, Top Picks|Comments Off on Crazy Horse

Addiction Incorporated

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 […]

By |December 16th, 2011|Documentary, Top Picks|Comments Off on Addiction Incorporated

My Piece of the Pie

Written & Directed by Cédric Klapisch Produced by Bruno Levy Released by Sundance Selects English & French with English subtitles France. 109 min. Not rated With Karin Viard & Gilles Lellouche
Cédric Klapisch’s boisterous films cram many characters and storylines into two (or so) hours. His last effort, Paris, was even more kaleidoscopic than usual, with […]

By |December 9th, 2011|Comedy, DVD/Streaming/On Demand, French, Tribeca Film Festival|Comments Off on My Piece of the Pie

Khodorkovsky

Produced & Directed by Cyril Tuschi Released by Kino Lorber Films
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English, Russian & German with English subtitles; Germany. 111 min. Not rated For anyone who’s followed the past decade’s political events in Russia even slightly, the documentary Khodorkovsky won’t be very […]

By |December 6th, 2011|Documentary, Recommended|Comments Off on Khodorkovsky