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 […]
Directed by Godfrey Reggio
Produced by Lawrence Taub & Reggio
Released by Cinedigm
USA. 87 min. Not rated
The films of Godfrey Reggio have no dialogue, mainly because, to paraphrase the director, he believes that language is an artifact constructed thousands of years ago which does not describe our lives today. So he rejects it, and presumably awaits the […]
Written & Directed by Peter Berg, based on the book by Marcus Luttrell & Patrick Robinson
Produced by Mark Wahlberg, Mr. Berg, Sarah Aubrey, Randall Emmett, Norton Herrick, Barry Spikings, Akiva Goldsman, Stephen Levinson & Vitaly Grigogoriants
Released by Universal Pictures
USA. 121 min. Rated R
With Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch, Ben Foster, Ali Suliman, Alexander Ludwig […]
Directed by Scott Cooper
Produced by Jennifer Davisson Killoran, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ryan Kavanaugh, Ridley Scott & Michael Costigan
Written by Cooper & Brad Ingelsby
Released by Relativity. 116 min. Rated R
With Christian Bale, Woody Harrelson, Casey Affleck, Forest Whitaker, Willem Dafoe, Zoë Saldana & Sam Shepard
The opening scene of Out of the Furnace is one of the best […]
Directed by Spike Lee
Written by Mark Protosevich, based on the Korean motion picture by Park Chan-wook
Produced by Roy Lee, Doug Davison & Nathan Kahane;
Released by Film District
USA. 98 min. Rated R
With Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, Sharlto Copley, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Imperioli, Linda Emond, James Ransone & Pom Klementieff
It’s difficult to discuss Spike Lee’s Oldboy, […]
