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Hipsters

Directed by Valery Todorovsky
Produced by Leonid Lebedev, Leonid Yarmolnik, Vadim Goryainov & Todorovsky
Written by Yuri Korotkov, based on his book Boogie Bones
Released by Leisure Time Features
Russian with English subtitles.
Russia, 125 min. Not rated.
With Anton Shagin, Oksana Akinshina, Evgenia Brik, Maksim Matveev, Igor Voynarovsky & Ekaterina Vilkova
Hipsters is an exuberant splash of color in contemporary Russian […]

By |February 24th, 2012|Foreign, Musical|0 Comments

Domain

Written & Directed by Patric Chiha
Produced by Charlotte Vincent & Aurora Films
Released by Strand Releasing
French with English subtitles.
France/Austria. 110 min. Not rated.
With Béatrice Dalle, Isaïe Sultan, Alaine Libolt, Raphaël Bouvet, Sylvia Rohrer, Manuel Marmier & Udo Samel
A suggestive relationship between Pierre (Isaïe Sultan), a handsome teenage boy, and Nadia (Betty Blue’s Béatrice Dalle), his wild, older […]

By |January 13th, 2012|Drama, DVD/Streaming/On Demand, French, GLBT|0 Comments

Carnage

Directed by Roman Polanski
Produced by Saïd Ben Saïd
Written by Yasmina Rexa & Polanski, based on the play God of Carnage by Reza
Released by Sony Pictures Classics
France/Germany/Poland/Spain. 80 min. Rated R
With Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz & John C. Reilly
In Carnage, the pursuit of normal behavior results in 79 jittery minutes of abject abnormality in […]

By |December 17th, 2011|Comedy, New York Film Festival|0 Comments

Silent Souls

Written & Directed by Aleksei Fedorchenko
Produced by Igor Mishin & Mary Nazari
Written by Denis Osokin, based on a novel by Aist Sergeyev
Released by Shadow Distribution
Russia. 75 min. Not rated
With Igor Sergeyev, Yuri Tsurilo, Yuliya Aug & Ivan Tushin

 

There are some beautiful moments in Silent Souls, a self-serious account of two Merjan men (from a […]

By |September 16th, 2011|DVD/Streaming/On Demand, Foreign|0 Comments