Directed by Ethan Hawke
Produced by Ryan Hawke, Greg Loser and Heather Joan Smith
Released by Sundance Selects
USA. 81 min. Not rated. Rated PG
Proving that not all music teachers are of the terrifyingly mean J.K. Simmons variety, this moving, intimate documentary portrait tells of the life and passion of Manhattan concert pianist Seymour Bernstein. One often […]
Directed by Gabriel London
Produced by Daniel J. Chalfen, London, and Charlie Sadoff
Released by City Drive Entertainment Group
Canada/USA. 100 min. Not rated
Telling a story that could only transpire in our weirdest state, the new documentary The Mind of Mark DeFriest recounts the life and crimes of Florida handyman Mark DeFriest. In 1980 at the age of […]
Written, Produced, and Directed by Brian Knappenberger
Released by Film Buff/ Participant Media
USA. 104 min. Not rated
What happens when an idealistic computer genius tries to hack the most obstinate system of all, American corporate capitalism? By turns touching and infuriating, the documentary The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz recounts the short but meaningful […]
Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev
Produced by Alexander Rodnyansky and Sergey Melkumov
Written by Oleg Negin and Zvyagintsev
Released by Sony Pictures Classics
Russian with English subtitles
Russia. 142 min Rated R
With Alexey Serebryakov, Elena Lyadova, Vladimir Vdovitchenkov, Roman Madyanov, Anna Ukolova, Alexey Rozin, Sergey Pokhodaev
How is it that, in the real world, the bad guys tend to win and […]
Directed by David Mackenzie
Written by Jonathan Asser
Produced by Gillian Berrie
Released by Tribeca Film
UK. 106 min. Not rated
With Jack O’Connell, Ben Mendelsohn, Rupert Friend, Sam Spruell, Anthony Welsh, David Ajala and Peter Ferdinando
Starred Up, written by real-life prison psychiatrist Jonathan Asser, feels like necessary corrective medicine for our cultural obsession with anti-heroes. Morally repugnant protagonists have […]
Directed by Morten Tyldum
Produced by Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky, and Teddy Schwarzman
Written by Graham Moore, based on the book Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges.
Released by the Weinstein Company
USA/UK. 114 min. Rated R
With Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Rory Kinnear, Allen Leech, Matthew Beard, Charles Dance, and Mark Strong
For someone who has become […]
Written, Produced, and Directed by Gabe Polsky
Released by Sony Pictures Classics
USA/Russia. 85 min. Rated PG
A captivating look at one of the great successes of the Soviet experiment, Red Army uncovers how the Soviet Union’s ice hockey team dominated world competition to an unprecedented extent in the 1970s and ‘80s. It featured a core of […]
Directed by Jon Stewart
Produced by Scott Rudin, Jon Stewart, and Gigi Pritzker
Written by Jon Stewart, based on the book Then They Came for Me by Maziar Bahari
Released by Open Road
USA. 103 min. Rated R
With Gael García Bernal, Kim Bodnia, Halah Bilginer, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Golshifteh Farahani, Dimitri Leonidas, Claire Foy
Jon Stewart’s directorial debut has been highly […]
Directed by Carlos Agulló and Mandy Jacobson
Produced by Jacobson
Written by Stephen W. Smith
Released by Trinity
South Africa. 82 min. Not rated
It’s easy to forget what an embarrassment on the global stage South Africa’s apartheid regime was, not least because of how far into the modern era it extended, officially ending only in 1994. In this new […]
