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State 194

Directed by Dan Setton
Produced by Setton & Elise Pearlstein
Released by Participant Media
English, Arabic & Hebrew with English subtitles
Israel/USA. 98 min. Rated PG
The Gatekeepers last year revealed a consensus for a two-state solution with the Palestinians among the intelligence chiefs who had been in charge of Israel’s security. Now it seems like the next step should […]

By |May 16th, 2013|Documentary, Other Israel Festival|0 Comments

Stories We Tell

Written & Directed by Sarah Polley
Produced by Anita Lee
Released by Roadside Attractions
Canada. 108 min. PG-13
So many fiction films open with the set-up of a faux biographer or documentarian sitting down with an old man and asking a question like: “Tell me the whole story of your marriage.” But in Stories We Tell, this interrogator adds […]

By |May 16th, 2013|Documentary, Top Picks|0 Comments

Ginger & Rosa

Written & Directed by Sally Potter
Produced by Christopher Sheppard & Andrew Litvin
Released by A24
UK. 90 min. Rated PG-13
With Elle Fanning, Alice Englert, Alessandro Nivola, Christina Hendricks, Timothy Spall, Oliver Platt, Jodhi May & Annette Bening
Director Sally Potter was about my age during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, and our parents were also active in the […]

By |April 6th, 2013|Top Picks, U. K.|0 Comments

Renoir

Directed by Gilles Bourdos
Produced by Olivier Delbosc & Marc Missonnier
Written by Jérôme Tonnerre & Bourdos, with the contribution of Michel Spinosa, based on the book Le Tableau Amoureux by Jacques Renoir
Released by Samuel Goldwyn Films
France. 111 min. Rated R
French with English subtitles
With Michel Bouquet, Vincent Rottiers, Christa Théret, Thomas Doret, Anne-Lise Heimburger, Sylviane Goudal & […]

No Place on Earth

Directed by Janet Tobias
Produced by Tobias, Rafael Marmor, Paul Laikin, Nadav Schirman, Susan Barnett & Zita Kisgergely
Written by Tobias & Paul Laikin
Released by Magnolia Pictures
UK/Germany/USA. 83 min. Rated PG-13
With Chris Nicola, Sima Dodyk, Sonia Dodyk, Sam Stermer, Saul Stermer, Kati Laban, Balázs Péter Kiss, Dániel Hegedus, and Balázs Barna Hidvégi
The extraordinary No Place on […]

By |April 5th, 2013|Holocaust, Top Picks|0 Comments

The Sapphires

Directed by Wayne Blair
Produced by Rosemary Blight & Kylie du Fresne
Written by Keith Thompson & Tony Briggs, based on the play by Briggs
Released by the Weinstein Company
Australia. 99 min. Rated PG-13
With Chris O’Dowd, Jessica Mauboy, Miranda Tapsell, Deborah Mailman, Shari Sebbens, Tory Kittles, Lynette Narkle, Eka Darville & Kylie Belling
The Sapphires is an irresistibly feel […]

By |March 26th, 2013|Australian, Biopic, Musical|0 Comments

Eden

Directed by Megan Griffiths
Produced by Colin Harper Plank and Jacob Mosler
Written by Richard B. Phillips & Griffiths, story by Phillips & Chong Kim
Released by Phase 4 Films
USA. 98 min. Rated R
With Jamie Chung, Beau Bridges, Matt O’Leary, Tantoo Cardinal, Jeanine Monterroza & Scott Mechlowicz
Hyun Jae (Jamie Chung) is just a naive American teenager in June […]

By |March 21st, 2013|Crime, Drama, Top Picks|0 Comments

Don’t Stop Believin’

Written & Directed by Ramona S. Diaz
Produced by Diaz & Capella Fahoome Brogden
English & Tagalog with English subtitles
Released by Cinedigm Entertainment
USA. 105 min. Not rated
Even if you can’t name off the top of your head hits by the band Journey, as soon as one of their songs cranks up—on Glee, in the mall, let alone […]

By |March 17th, 2013|Documentary, Music, Pop Culture|0 Comments

The We and the I

Directed by Michel Gondry
Produced by Gondry, Julie Fong, Raffi Adlan & Georges Bermann
Written by Gondry, Jeffrey Grimshaw & Paul Proch
Released by Paladin/108 Media
UK/USA/France. 103 min. Not rated
With Michael Brodie, Teresa Lynn, Laidychen Carrasco, Raymond Delgado, Jonathan Ortiz, Jonathan Worrell, Alex Barrios, Meghan “Niomi” Murphy, Raymond Rios, Brandon Diaz, Manuel Rivera, Elijah Canada, Jacobchen Carrasco & […]

By |March 17th, 2013|Drama, French, Teen|0 Comments