Written & Directed by Alex Gibney
Produced by Gibney, Alexandra Johnes, Kristen Vaurio, Jedd Wider & Todd Wider
Released by HBO Documentary Films
USA. 106 min. Not Rated
Director/narrator Alex Gibney loudly amplifies several meanings of “silence” in Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House Of God. There’s the familiar stonewalling silence of pedophile priests, cover-ups by the Catholic […]
Written & Directed by Ra’anan Alexandrowicz
Produced by Liran Atzmor
Released by Cinema Guild
Israel. 101 min. Not Rated
In Hebrew with English subtitles
Punctuated with pungent visual and narrative footnotes, The Law in These Parts comes close to being the Pentagon Papers of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories. Director Ra’anan Alexandrowicz incisively narrates a chronological history of […]
Directed by Sean Baker
Produced by Blake Ashman Kipervaser
Written by Baker & Chris Bergoch
Released by Music Box Films
USA. 104 Min. Not rated
With Dree Hemingway, Besedka Johnson, Stella Maeve, James Ransone & Karren Karagulian
The fringe of Hollywood’s Walk of Fame attracts all kinds of get-rich-quick dreamers and schemers, now and in the past. Sweet, blonde Jane […]
Directed by Jeff Orlowski
Produced by Paula Dupre’ Pesmen & Jerry Aronson
Written by Mark Monroe
Released by Submarine Deluxe
USA. 75 min. PG-13
Superstorm Sandy gives the documentary Chasing Ice timely relevance. Through the lens of a modern Arctic explorer, glaciers are seen melting alarmingly fast into waves that have pushed the sea level up to cause annual “storms […]
Directed by Paolo Sorrentino
Produced by Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima & Andrea Occhipinti
Written by Sorrentino & Umberto Contarello
Released by The Weinstein Company
Italy/France/Ireland. 111 min. Rated R
With Sean Penn, Frances McDormand, Judd Hirsch, Eve Hewson, Olwen Fouéré, Simon Delaney, David Byrne & Kerry Condon
The old country comes to the New World in a magical tale with ancient […]
Directed by Ursula Meier
Produced by Denis Freyd & Ruth Waldburger
Written by Antoine Jaccoud & Meier with the collaboration of Gilles Taurand
Released by Adopt Films
French with English subtitles
France/Switzerland. 97 min. Not rated
With Léa Seydoux, Kacey Mottet Klein, Martin Compston & Gillian Anderson
Switzerland’s submission for the best foreign-language Oscar, Sister gives a fresh, contemporary heart and look […]
Directed by Lorraine Lévy
Produced by Virginie Lacombe & Raphael Berdugo
Written by Nathalie Saugeon, Lévy & Noam Fitoussi
Released by Cohen Media Group
France. 105 min. Rated PG-13
English, French, Hebrew & Arabic with English subtitles
With Emmanuelle Devos, Pascal Elbé, Jules Sitruk, Mehdi Dehbi, Areen Omari, Khalifa Natour, Mahmood Shalabi & Bruno Podalydès
Though not in a profound way, The […]
Directed & Produced by Sonia Nassery Cole
Written by Cole & David Michael O’Neill
Released by SnagFilms
Afghanistan/USA. 116 min. Not rated
In English, Pashtu & Dari with English subtitles
With Cole, Haji Gul Aser, Walid Amini, Somaia Razaye, Hosna Tanha, Karim Jaweed, Sadaf Yarmal, Basir Mujaheed, Shafi Sahel, Jack Scalia and Edoardo Costa
Afghanistan’s entry for the foreign language […]
Written, Produced & Directed by David Fisher
Released by Nancy Fishman Film Releasing
English, German & Hebrew with English subtitles
Israel/Germany/Austria. 97 min. Not rated
Six Million and One adds to the documentary canon of the Holocaust as it grapples with the repercussions and impact decades later on the next generation. A dozen years ago, the father of director […]
