Directed by Ava DuVernay
Produced by Christian Colson, Oprah Winfrey, Dede Gardner, and Jeremy Kleiner
Written by Paul Webb
Released by Paramount Pictures
USA/UK. 127 min. Rated PG-13
With David Oyelowo, Tom Wilkinson, Carmen Ejogo, Giovanni Ribisi, Lorraine Toussaint, Common, Alessandro Nivola, Dylan Baker, Cuba Gooding Jr., Tim Roth, André Holland, Wendell Pierce, Corey Reynolds, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Colman Domingo, Nigel […]
Written and Directed by Dominik Graf
Produced by Uschi Reich
Released by Music Box Films
Germany/Austria. 170 min. Not Rated
German with English subtitles
With Hannah Herzsprung, Florian Stetter, Henriette Confurius, Maja Maranow and Andreas Pietschmann
This beautiful historical drama passionately depicts how the political, social, and cultural revolutionary fervor sweeping late 18th-century Europe inspired women to find ways around restrictions, […]
Directed by Edet Belzberg
Produced by Belzberg, Amelia Green-Dove and Kerry Propper
Based on A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power
Released by Music Box Films
English and Zaghawa, Spanish, French with English subtitles
USA. 121 min. Not rated
Just weeks before Watchers Of the Sky opened in theaters, the United Nations put on trial […]
Directed by Laura Poitras
Produced by Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutzky
Released by Radius
Germany/USA. 114 min. Rated R
The central, absorbing act of Citizenfour is viewing Edward Snowden like never before. He’s a human being in cinema verité close-up during the days when the computer contractor hands over United States government documents on the National Security […]
Directed by Volker Schlöndorff
Produced by Marc de Bayser, Frank Le Wita, Sidonie Dumas, and Francis Boespflug
Written by Cyril Gely and Schlöndorff, based on the play Diplomatie by Gely
Released by Zeitgeist Films Release
French and German with English subtitles
France. 88 min. Not rated
With André Dussollier, Niels Arestrup, Burghart Klaussner and Robert Stadlober
Diplomacy hones in on the pivotal […]
In Iris, world premiering at the New York Film Festival, director Albert Maysles warmly reveals that Iris Apfel is a lot more than her trademark large owlish glasses. The Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute touted her fashion collection and idiosyncratic style sense in a 2005 traveling exhibit, “Rara Avis,” when she was 84. Previously, she appeared […]
Written and Directed by Lance Daly
Produced by Macdara Kelleher and Daly
Released by Magnolia Pictures
Ireland/Sweden. 83 min. Rated R
With Fionnula Flanagan, Pat Shortt, Kelly Thornton, Eva Birthistle, Gerry McCann, Lesley Conroy, Philip Judge, Paul Ronan, Brian Gleeson, and Will Higgins
The Irish recession is becoming a fertile font for satire. Life’s a Breeze colorfully mines the impact […]
Directed by John Curran
Produced by Emile Sherman and Iain Canning
Written by Marion Nelson, based on the memoir by Robyn Davidson and inspired by the photographs of Rick Smolan in From Alice to Ocean
Released by the Weinstein Company
Australia. 102 min. Rated PG-13
With Mia Wasikowska, Adam Driver, Rainer Bock, Rolley Mintuma, John Flaus, and Robert Coleby and […]
Directed by Alan Hicks
Written by Hicks and Davis Coombe
Produced by Quincy Jones and Paula DuPre’ Pesmen
Released by Radius/The Weinstein Company
USA. 86 min. Rated R
Keep On Keepin’ On intimately catches lightning in a bottle, for what is usually only talked about but rarely seen on film: how a dedicated mentor can patiently pass on a […]
