Written & Directed by Andrew Rossi
Produced by Josh Braun & Rossi
Released by Samuel Goldwyn Films/Participant Media
USA. 90 min. Rated PG-13
There are few things more enjoyable than to critique the American higher education system, and Ivory Tower is one of the most slickly produced and entertaining cracks at it yet. Here, colleges are widely described as […]
Written by Slattery and Alex Metcalf, based on the novel by Pete Dexter
Produced by Sam Bisbee, Jackie Kelman Bisbee, Lance Acord, Slattery, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Emily Ziff
Released by IFC Films
USA. 88 min. Rated R
With Philip Seymour Hoffman, Richard Jenkins, Christina Hendricks, John Turturro, Caleb Landry Jones, Domenick Lombardozzi, Joyce Van Patten, and Glenn Fleshler
If […]
Written and Directed by Richard Shepard
Produced by Jeremy Thomas
Released by Fox Searchlight Pictures.
UK. 93 min. Rated R
With Jude Law, Richard E. Grant, Demian Bichir, Emilia Clarke and Kerry Condon
Not quite as smart as it needs to be, yet smarter than it may seem, Dom Hemingway is a timely film, and an unmistakable sign that Jude […]
Written, Produced and Directed by John Maloof and Charlie Siskel
Released by Sundance Selects
USA. 83 min. Not rated
If you put aside the deep knowledge Finding Vivian Maier imparts about an undeniably powerful contributor to photography, and the stark sense of the wildly eccentric character behind the images, you are left with one of the funniest, […]
Directed by Arnaud Desplechin
Written by Mr. Desplechin, with Kent Jones & Julie Peyr, based on Reality and Dream by Georges Devereux
Produced by Jennifer Roth, Pascal Caucheteux & Grégoire Sorlat
Released by IFC Films
France/USA. 114 min. Not rated
With Benicio Del Toro, Mathieu Amalric, Gina McKee, Larry Pine, Joseph Cross, Michelle Thrush and Misty Upham
Psychoanalysis, for its hundred […]
Directed by Fedor Bondarchuk
Written by Ilya Tilkin & Sergey Snezhkin, based on the novel by Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
Produced by Alexander Rodnyansky, Anton Zlatopolskiy, Dmitry Rudovskiy & Sergey Melkumov
Released by Columbia Pictures/Imax 3D
Russian & German with English subtitles
Russia. 135 min. Rated R
With Mariya Smolnikova, Yanina Studilina, Petr Fedorov, Thomas Kretschmann, Sergey Bondarchuk, Dmitry […]
Directed by Babak Najafi
Produced by Fredrik Wikstrom Nicastro
Written by Maria Karlsson with Peter Birro, Najafi & Nicastro, based on books by Jens Lapidus
Released by Cinedigm
Swedish & Spanish with English subtitles
Sweden. 100 min. Not rated
With Joel Kinnaman, Matias Varela, Dragomir Mrsic, Fares Fares, Madeleine Martin, Dejan Cukic, Joel Spira & Lisa Henni
The second entry in a […]
Released by ShortsHD
97 min. Not rated
“Do I Have To Take Care of Everything?”
The briefest, by half, of this year’s Oscar nominated live-action shorts makes more of an impact than its tone and brevity might suggest. The Finnish short covers a morning in the chaotic life of the Ketonin family, scrambling like mad to get to […]
Produced & Directed by Greg Whiteley
Streaming on Netflix
USA. 91 min. Not rated
Get ready to like Mitt Romney. The new documentary Mitt may make some of us regret how easily we dismissed him during the 2008 and, especially, the 2012 presidential campaigns. It’s a somewhat bitter catch-22, as it couldn’t have been released during his active […]
