Written & Directed by Hannah Fidell Produced by Kim Sherman & Fidell Released by Oscilloscope Laboratories USA. 77 min. Not rated With Lindsay Burdge & Will Brittain A high school teacher punctuates the banality of her daily routine—commuting to work, administering her classroom, jogging, etc.—by banging a student. We begin with the teacher, Diana (Lindsay […]
Edited, Written & Directed by Joe Swanberg Produced by Paul Bernon, Sam Slater, Andrea Roa, Swanberg & Alicia Van Couvering Released by Magnolia Pictures USA. 90 min. Rated R With Olivia Wilde, Jake Johnson, Anna Kendrick & Ron Livingston Joe Swanberg, besides being one of the most prominent directors of the micro-budgeted independent films known […]
Written & Directed by Noah Buschel Produced by Savantha Housman & Louise Runge Released by Tribeca Film USA. 81 min. Not rated With Marin Ireland & Paul Sparks Sparrows Dance may be the sweetest and simplest film I’ve seen in years. Taking place almost entirely in one small New York City apartment, the film follows […]
Written & Directed by David Lowery Produced by Lars Knudsen, Jay Van Hoy, James M. Johnston, Toby Halbrooks, Cassian Elwes & Amy Kaufman Released by IFC Films USA. 105 min. Not rated With Rooney Mara, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster, Keith Carradine & Nate Parker It takes a filmmaker with strong courage to make what on […]
Directed by Lee Daniels Produced by Pamela Oas Williams, Laura Ziskin, Mr. Daniels, Buddy Patrick & Cassian Elwes Written by Danny Strong, inspired by the article “A Butler Well Served by This Election,” by Wil Haygood Released by the Weinstein Company USA. 130 min. Rated PG-13 With Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, Mariah Carey, John Cusack, […]
Directed by Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman Produced by Heidi Jo Markel, Laura Rister, Jason Weinberg, and Jim Young Written by Andy Bellin Released by Radius TWC USA. 92 min. Rated R With Amanda Seyfried, Peter Sarsgaard, Hank Azaria, Wes Bentley, Adam Brody, Bobby Cannavale, James Franco, Debi Mazar, Chris Noth, Robert Patrick, Eric Roberts, […]
Directed by Paul Schrader Written by Brett Easton Ellis Produced by Braxton Pope Released by IFC Films USA. 100 min. Not rated With Lindsay Lohan, James Deen, Nolan Gerard Funk, Amanda Brooks, Tenille Huston, & Gus Van Sant In recent interviews, Paul Schrader has talked about the “death of cinema” in relation to his latest […]
Written & Directed by David Gordon Green, based on the film Either Way by Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson Produced by Lisa Muskat, Derrick Tseng, Craig Zobel, James Belfer & Green Released by Magnolia Pictures USA. 94 min. Rated R With Paul Rudd, Emile Hirsch, Lance Legault & Joyce Payne Before David Gordon Green went Hollywood and […]
For the first time since it was founded 11 years ago, the narrative films competing for awards at the Tribeca Film Festival made up a noteworthy and motley bunch, and it was a real race. Usually gems by an unknown filmmaker made without any stars can be discovered in the various sidebars, but this year, […]