The New Directors/New Films series at the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art is a terrific New York City showcase for creative cinema. Not all the best in the 43rd edition of this international feast have yet been picked up for commercial distribution, but nevertheless they deserve to be seen […]
Directed by Errol Morris
Produced by Morris, Amanda Branson Gill and Robert Fernandez
Released by RADIUS-TWC
USA. 102 min. Rated PG-13
The Unknown Known gives you a front seat to recent history through the calculated point of view of one man who, astonishingly, was at the right hand of Republican power for almost 50 years. Donald Rumsfeld was the […]
Two films in this year’s New Directors/New Films program represent the breed of hybrid blending of fact and fiction that both of its sponsoring institutions are also championing in separate annual series, the Museum of Modern Art in its just completed Documentary Fortnight International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media and the Film Society of […]
Directed by Rithy Panh
Produced by Catherine Dussart
Written by Panh and Christophe Bataille
French with English subtitles
Released by Strand Releasing
Cambodia/France. 92 min. Not rated
The Missing Picture creatively relives the Cambodian holocaust and surmounts the storytelling problem intrinsic to retelling such horrors. Time inexorably passes, evidence disappears, and the last witnesses grow old. Memories alone are not necessarily […]
Directed by Robert May
Produced by May and Lauren Timmons
Released by SenArt Films
USA. 102 min. Rated PG-13
Kids for Cash is a Frontline-style documentary that adds considerable behind-the-headlines insight from the perspectives of the families, the investigators, and the accused, despite the frustrating blank holes that are filled with rage against the machine of injustice.
The title was […]
Directed and Written by Hany Abu-Assad
Produced by Abu-Assad, Waleed F. Zuaiter & David Gerson
Released by Adopt Films
Palestine. 98 min. Not Rated
Arabic & Hebrew with English subtitles
With Adam Bakri, Leem Lubany, Waleed F. Zuaiter, Samer Bisharat, & Eyad Hourani
Omar spins a fresh take on thrillers and star-crossed romances set along the Israel/Palestine security wall. Omar (Adam […]
Directed by Claude Lanzmann
Produced by David Frenkel, Jean Labadie & Danny Krausz
Released by Cohen Media Group
German, French and English, with English subtitles
France/Austria. 218 min. Rated PG-13
Historical facts, interpretation, and blame are strikingly embodied by Benjamin Murmelstein. His singular life and experiences, during and after the Holocaust, have inspired magic realism fiction, including Leslie Epstein’s […]
Produced by Baher Agarabiya & Nirah Shirazipour
Released by Eyes Infinite Films/Majdal Films
Canada/Palestine/USA. 75 min. Not rated
English Arabic, and Hebrew with English subtitles
With Ali Suliman, Guy El Hanan, Maisam Masri & Haale Gafori
Mars at Sunrise attempts to bring an experimental cinematic consideration to the Israeli occupation, and has flashes of innovative success amidst didacticism and confusing […]
Directed by Philipp Kadelbach
Produced by Nico Hofmann
Written by Stefan Kolditz
Released by Music Box Films
Germany. Part one: 131 min.; Part two: 148 min. Not rated
English, German, & Polish with English subtitles
With Volker Bruch, Tom Schilling, Katharina Schüttler, Ludwig Trepte & Miriam Stein
Generation War sweeps away a half century of World War II clichés that most Americans […]
