Directed by Simon Curtis
Produced by Kris Thykier
Written by Alexi Kaye Campell
Released by The Weinstein Company
US/UK. 110 min. Rated PG-13
With Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Daniel Brühl, Katie Holmes, Tatiana Maslany, Max Irons, Charles Dance, Antje Traue, Elizabeth McGovern, Jonathan Pryce, Frances Fisher, Moritz Bleibtreu, Tom Schilling, Allan Corduner, and Henry Goodman
Based on a true story, […]
Written, Directed and Produced by Oren Jacoby
Released by the Film Sales Company
USA. 92 min. Not rated
English and Italian with English subtitles
What Americans may know of World War II’s impact on Italy is often centered on the Allies’ liberating invasion and the many World at War-type documentaries that repeat the footage of partisans hanging Benito Mussolini’s […]
Directed by Eytan Fox
Produced by Marco Cherqui and Lauranne Bourrachot
Written by Eli Bijaoui and Fox
Released by Strand Releasing
Israel/France. 92 min. Not Rated
Hebrew with English subtitles
With Anat Waxman, Ofer Shechter, Dana Ivgy, Keren Berger, Efrat Dor, Yael Bar-Zohar and Lior Ashkenazi
Israeli writer/director Eytan Fox made his international reputation through serious takes on gay life in a […]
Directed by Denny Tedesco
Produced by Denny Tedesco, Chris Hope, Jon Leonoudakis, Mitchell Linden, Claire Scanlon, Damon Tedesco & Suzie Greene Tedesco
Released by Magnolia Pictures
USA. 101 min. Rated PG
The Wrecking Crew pays fond tribute to the musicians who were behind so much of the rock ‘n’ roll soundtrack of boomers’ lives. It’s even more an insiders’ […]
Directed by Daniel Alfredson
Produced by Judy Cairo and Michael A. Simpson
Written by William Brookfield, based on book by Peter R. de Vries
Released by Alchemy
Netherlands/UK/Belgium. 95 min. Rated R
With Anthony Hopkins, Jim Sturgess, Sam Worthington, Ryan Kwanten, Mark Van Eewen, Thomas Cocquerel and Jemima West
With a strong sense of class consciousness, this is a caper thriller […]
Directed and Produced by Erik Greenberg Anjou
Released by Cohen Media Group
USA. 91 min. Rated PG-13
Deli Man is an extra helping of more than just a nostalgic meal at one of the shrinking numbers of genuine Jewish delicatessens in North America. Like The Search for General Tso last year, on Chinese-American cuisine, and Jiro Dreams of […]
Written and Directed by Kirby Dick
Produced by Amy Ziering
Released by Radius/CNN Films
USA. 90 min. Rated PG-13
The Hunting Ground is an indignant and impassioned documentary that mostly manages to get behind the headlines and ahead of the news. In just over a year of its filming, the issue of sexual assaults on college campuses went from […]
Directed by Abderrahmane Sissako
Produced by Sylvie Pialat
Written by Sissako and Kessen Tall
Released by Cohen Media Group
France/Mauritania. 97 min. Rated PG-13
Arabic, Bambara, French, English, Songhay, and Tamasheq with English subtitles
With Ibrahim Ahmed aka Pino, Toulou Kiki, Abel Jafri, Layla Walet Mohamed, Adel Mahmoud Cherif, Fatoumata Diawara, and Salem Dendou
Passionately humanistic as it is poetic, Timbuktu […]
Written and Directed by Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz
Produced by Marie Masmonteil, Sandrine Brauer, and Shlomi Elkabetz
Released by Music Box Films
Hebrew, French, Arabic with English subtitles
France/Israel/Germany. 115 min. Not Rated
With Ronit Elkabetz, Simon Abkarian, Menashe Noy, Sasson Gabay, Eli Gorstein, and Gabi Amrani
The struggle of modern women against conservative religious restrictions has heightened significance around […]
