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The Flat

Directed and Written by Arnon Goldfinger
Produced by Goldfinger & Thomas Kufus
Released by Sundance Selects
Hebrew, English & German with English subtitles
Israel/Germany. 97 min. Not rated
The Flat starts as an ordinary family gathering, the type familiar to many of us, and turns into an extraordinary story. Director Arnon Goldfinger, a humanistic and diligent detective, delves into […]

By |October 25th, 2012|Documentary, DVD/Streaming/On Demand, Top Picks|1 Comment

Radio Unnameable

Directed & Produced by Paul Lovelace & Jessica Wolfson
Released by Kino Lorber
USA. 87 min. Not rated

Radio Unnameable is a fan’s portrait of the counterculture radio personality who helped create free-form radio and turned what was considered a one-way medium into a forerunner of the interactive social media that has now almost passed him by.

Directors Paul […]

By |September 18th, 2012|Pop Culture|1 Comment

Arbitrage

Written & Directed by Nicholas Jarecki
Produced by Laura Bickford, Kevin Turen, Justin Nappi & Robert Salerno
Released by Lionsgate/Roadside Attractions
USA. 100 min. Rated R
With Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Tim Roth, Brit Marling, Laetitia Casta, Nate Parker, Stuart Margolin, Chris Eigeman, Graydon Carter, & Bruce Altman
Writer/director Nicholas Jarecki turns his debut feature into a competent, glossy-looking […]

By |September 13th, 2012|Drama|0 Comments

10 Years

Written & Directed by Jamie Linden
Produced by Channing Tatum, Reid Carolin, Marty Bowen & Wyck Godfrey
Released by Anchor Bay Films
USA. 90 min. Rated PG-13
With Lynn Collins, Rosario Dawson, Jenna Dewan-Tatum, Brian Geraghty, Ari Graynor, Oscar Issac, Ron Livingston, Justin Long, Anthony Mackie, Kate Mara, Max Minghella, Eiko Nijo, Aubrey Plaza, Scott Porter, Chris Pratt, […]

By |September 13th, 2012|Drama, DVD/Streaming/On Demand|0 Comments

Somewhere Between

Directed & Produced by Linda Goldstein Knowlton
Released by Long Shot Factory
USA. 88 min. Not Rated
English, Mandarin & Spanish with English subtitles

When the legal, financial, and cultural issues around international adoption make the news, the associated images might include adorable babies and toddlers with anxious and grateful childless couples. However, Somewhere Between fast forwards to see […]

By |August 23rd, 2012|Documentary, DVD/Streaming/On Demand|3 Comments

The Matchmaker

Written & Directed by Avi Nesher, inspired by Amir Gutfreund’s novel When Heroes Fly
Produced by Moshe Edery, Leon Edery, David Silber, Avraham Pirchi, David Silber, Chilik Michaeli, Nesher, Tami Leon & Natan Caspi
Released by Menemsha Films
Israel. 112 min. Not Rated
Hebrew with English subtitles
With Adir Miller, Maya Dagan, Dror Keren, Dov Navon, Tuval Shafir, Neta Porat, […]

By |August 16th, 2012|Israeli|0 Comments

The Chilean Building

Directed by Macarena Aguiló
Produced by Aguiló & Juan Manuel Egaña
Written by Aguiló & Susana Foxley
Released by Magic Lantern
Spanish with English subtitles
Chile/France/Cuba/The Netherlands. 99 min. Not rated
As courts in Chile still deal with the ruthlessness of the military dictatorship that controlled the country from the 1970s to the 1990s, the sacrifices of those who fought against […]

By |August 13th, 2012|Documentary|0 Comments

Here

Directed by Braden King
Produced by Lars Knudsen & Jay Van Hoy  
Written by King & Dani Valent
Released by Strand Releasing
USA. 126 min. Not Rated 
With Ben Foster, Lubna Azabal, and the voice of Peter Coyote
Two lone world travelers, an engineer and an artist, meet at a café. He’s an American engrossed in his surveying equipment […]

By |August 8th, 2012|Drama, DVD/Streaming/On Demand|0 Comments

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

Directed by Alison Klayman
Produced by Klayman & Adam Schlesinger
Released by Sundance Selects
English & Mandarin with English subtitles
USA. 91 min. Rated  R

Last year, journalist Alison Klayman’s camera was at the eye of the international human rights storm over Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. Her resulting debut documentary goes behind the headlines to intimately show why he became […]

By |July 26th, 2012|DVD/Streaming/On Demand, Political|0 Comments