Directed by Erik Poppe
Written by Harald Rosenlow Eeg
Produced by Finn Gjerdrum and Stein B. Kvae
Released by Film Movement
Norway/Ireland/Sweden. 117 min. Not rated
With Juliette Binoche, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lauryn Canny, Adrianna Cramer Curtis, Maria Doyle Kennedy, and Larry Mullen Jr
Through 1,000 Times Good Night, Norwegian co-writer and director Erik Poppe dramatizes his experience as a former photojournalist. […]
Written and Directed by Peter Sattler
Produced by Gina Kwon
Released by IFC Films
USA. 117 min. Not rated
With Kristen Stewart, Payman Maadi, Lane Garrison, Joseph Julian Soria, Ser’Darius Blain, Cory Michael Smith, Julia Duffy, and John Carroll Lynch
Private First Class Officer Cole (Kristen Stewart) remarks about halfway through Camp X-Ray that it’s “not as black and white […]
Directed by Nicholas Mross
Released by Gravitas Ventures
USA. 96 min. Not rated
Even after watching this documentary, I’m not sure I completely understand how this product works. As one interviewee states, you need to use Bitcoin before you can understand it completely. In what I’m sure is a poor and incomplete description, it is virtual currency and […]
Written and Directed by Philippe Le Guay, based on an original idea by Fabrice Luchini and Le Guay
Produced by Anne-Dominique Toussaint
Released by Strand Releasing.
French with English subtitles
France. 104 min. Not rated
With Fabrice Luchini, Lambert Wilson, Maya Sansa, and Laurie Bordesoules
I have had only a little experience with the plays of Molière, having seen a few […]
Written and Directed by Louise Archambault
Produced by Luc Déry and Kim McCraw
Released by Entertainment One
Canada. 104 min. Rated R
With Gabrielle Marion-Rivard, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Alexandre Landry, Vincent-Guillaume Otis, Benoit Gouin, Sébastian Ricard, Marie Gignac and Robert Charlebois
Though there are many themes brought to the forefront in Gabrielle, the unique power of music is what stands […]
Written and Directed by Denis Côté
Produced by Sylvain Corbeil
Released by KimStim
French with English subtitles
Canada. 95 min. Not rated
With Pierrette Robitaille, Romane Bohringer, Marc-André Grondin, Marie Brassard, and Georges Molnar
The reimagined feminist fairy tale is widespread in Hollywood, evident this past month by the success of Maleficent. Vic + Flo Saw a Bear takes a very […]
Directed by Matt Porterfield
Written by Porterfield & Amy Belk
Produced by Steve Holmgren, Ryan Zacarias & Eric Bannat
Released by Strand Releasing
USA. 90 min. Not rated
With Deragh Campbell, Hannah Gross, Kim Taylor, Ned Oldham, Nicholas Petr & Geoff Grace
Starring a mostly unknown cast and made by a fairly new director (Matt Portersfield), I Used to Be Darker […]
Directed by Christopher Menaul
Produced by Jeremy Cowdrey, Janette Day, Pippa Cross & Dan Stevens
Written by Jonathan Smith, based on his novel
Released by Tribeca Film
UK. 100 min. Not rated
With Dominic Cooper, Emily Browning, Dan Stevens, Hattie Morahan, Shaun Dingwall & Mia Austen
Summer in February is based on a novel by Jonathan Smith (who also wrote the […]
Directed by Nana Ekvtimishvili & Simon Gross
Written by Ekvtimishvili
Released by Big World Pictures
Georgian with English subtitles
Georgia/Germany/France. 102 min. Not rated
With Lika Babluani & Mariam Bokeria
With Generation X getting older, there has been an increase in coming-of-age films and television series taking place in the late 1980s/early ’90s. From Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being of […]
