Written & Directed by Joel & Ethan Coen
Produced by Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen & Joel Coen
Released by CBS Films
USA. 105 min. Rated R
With Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, Garrett Hedlund, Justin Timberlake, F. Murray Abraham, Stark Sands, Adam Driver, Jeanine Serralles, Max Casella, Ethan Phillips, Robin Bartlett, Jerry Grayson & Max Casella
Inside Llewyn […]
Edited & Directed by Frederick Wiseman
Released by Zipporah Films
USA. 244 min. Not Rated
At Berkeley is director Frederick Wiseman’s 38th film since 1967, in what he calls “my series about contemporary institutions.” His first on a college campus (the University of California at Berkeley) unfolds just over four hours. It’s a teaching lesson in the thoughtful […]
Written & Directed by Wladyslaw Pasikowski
Produced by Dariusz Jablonski, Violetta Kaminska & Izabela Wojcik
Released by Menemsha Films
Polish with English subtitles
Poland/Netherlands/Russia/Slovakia. 104 min. Not rated
With Maciej Stuhr, Ireneusz Czop, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Zuzana Fialova, Andrzej Mastalerz, Zbigniew Zamachowski & Danuta Szaflarska
Aftermath, an intense thriller, exposes the corrosive effect of collective silence and lies over decades. The people of Poland […]
Directed by Jehane Noujaim
Produced by Karim Amer
Released by Noujaim Films Inc
English & Arabic with English subtitles
Egypt/USA. 104 min. Not rated
The Square zooms into the large waves of demonstrations and counterattacks in Cairo’s central Tahrir Square that first erupted in the 2011 Arab Spring. Egyptian-American filmmaker Jehane Noujaim vividly finds and follows individual participants who […]
Directed & Produced by Martha Shane & Lana Wilson
Released by Oscilloscope Laboratories
USA. 88 min. Rated PG-13
After Tiller is a wrenching portrait of life and death decisions where even the definition of “life” is emotionally laden for doctors and pregnant women considering abortion.
The title demarcates the impact of the murder of Kansas doctor George Tiller in […]
Produced & Directed by Joe Brewster & Michèle Stephenson
Released by Impact Partners
USA. 135 min. Not Rated
Raising and educating middle-class African-American boys is seen first-hand, cinema verité style, over nine years in the fitful, occasionally insightful, and intimately revealing documentary American Promise.
Filmmakers Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson initially picked up their cameras, like so many parents […]
Written & Directed by Bruno Dumont
Produced by Jean Brehat, Rachid Bouchareb & Muriel Merlin
Released by Kino Lorber
French with English subtitles
France. 97 min. Not Rated
With Juliette Binoche, Jean-Luc Vincent, Robert Leroy, Emmanuel Kauffman & Marion Keller
Writer/director Bruno Dumont gives a strongly feminist interpretation to the tragic story of the thwarted creativity of sculptor Camille Claudel. […]
Directed by Randall Miller
Produced by Jody Savin, Miller & Brad Rosenberger
Written by Miller & Savin
Released by XLRator Media
USA. 101 min. Rated R
With Alan Rickman, Malin Akerman, Justin Bartha, Richard de Klerk, Johnny Galecki, Ashley Greene, Rupert Grint, Estelle Harris, Taylor Hawkins, Ryan Hurst, Stana Katic, Donal Logue, Joel David Moore, Ahna O’Reilly, Freddy Rodriguez, Mickey […]
Directed by Michael Mayer
Produced by Lihu Roter & Mayer
Written by Mayer & Yael Shafrir
Released by Breaking Glass Pictures
Hebrew & Arabic with English subtitles
Israel/Palestine/USA. 96 min. Not rated
With Nicholas Jacob, Michael Aloni, Alon Pdut, Jameel Khouri & Loai Noufi
Out in the Dark takes an intensely intimate look beyond the familiar tragic premise of Romeo and […]
