Sirens
Meet Slave to Sirens, an all-female thrash metal band from Beirut, Lebanon,
Film-Forward
Peter Von Kant
François Ozon’s film feels like a lighter version of its source material, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, less Jean Genet and more Noël Coward.
My Old School
Director Jono McLeod looks back mystified at his high school days, when his Glasgow school was at the center of a national scandal/mystery.
Both Sides of the Blade
A moody movie for fans of Claire Denis’s more recent work, character studies with dense emotions to unpack.
Official Competition
As an auteur filmmaker, Penélope Cruz presumably sends up the directors that she’s surely had to contend with in her career.
Tribeca Odds & Ends
Some of Tribeca Film Festival’s lesser-known documentaries and fiction films were the strongest I’d seen in the program. There were certainly standouts, films that had what seemed like impossible footage of an event—Alias Ruby Blade shares secrets firsthand from within the heart of a country’s rebellion—or feature films that explore familiar territory with nuance and […]
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Directed by Mira Nair
Written by William Wheeler, based on a screen story by Mohsin Hamid & Ami Boghani & the novel by Hamid;
Produced by Lydia Pilcher
Released by IFC Films
USA/UK/Qatar. 128 min. Not rated
With Riz Ahmed, Kate Hudson, Liev Schreiber, Kiefer Sutherland, Om Puri, Shabana Azmi & Martin Donovan
At heart, Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist is […]
In the House
Written & Directed by François Ozon, adapted from the play, The Boy in the Last Row, by Juan Mayorga
Produced by Eric & Nicolas Altmayer
Released by Cohen Media Group
French with English subtitles.
France. 105 min. Rated R
With Fabrice Luchini, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner, Denis Ménochet, Ernst Umhauer & Bastien Ughetto
Following François Ozon’s last film, a bubbly […]
To the Wonder
Written & Directed by Terrence Malick
Produced by Sarah Green & Nicolas Gonda
Released by Magnolia Pictures
USA. 112 min. Rated R
With Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko, Rachel McAdams, Javier Bardem, Tatiana Chiline & Romina Mondello
To the Wonder is a surprise. Even with all of his hallmarks and impressionistic flourishes, Terrence Malick’s new film is very straightforward. It’s a […]