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Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me

Directed by Chiemi Karasawa Produced by Karasawa & Elizabeth Hemmerdinger Released by Sundance Selects USA. 81 min. Not rated In the twilight of her career, veteran actress Elaine Stritch has won both an Emmy and Grammy for her 2002 one-woman Broadway show, Elaine Stritch at Liberty, her tell-all song and dish about this broad’s life […]

Summer in February

Directed by Christopher Menaul Produced by Jeremy Cowdrey, Janette Day, Pippa Cross & Dan Stevens Written by Jonathan Smith, based on his novel Released by Tribeca Film UK. 100 min. Not rated With Dominic Cooper, Emily Browning, Dan Stevens, Hattie Morahan, Shaun Dingwall & Mia Austen Summer in February is based on a novel by […]

Saving Mr. Banks

Directed by John Lee Hancock Written by Kelly Marcel & Sue Smith Produced by Alison Owen, Ian Collie & Philip Steuer Released by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures UK/USA. 125 min. Rated PG-13 With Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, Paul Giamatti, Jason Schwartzman, Bradley Whitford, Annie Rose Buckley, Ruth Wilson, B. J. Novak, Rachel Griffiths, Kathy […]

Approved for Adoption

Directed by Jung Henin & Laurent Boileau Written by Henin Released by GKids Belgium/France. 75 min. Not rated Currently there is a great deal of debate about the exportation of children from war-torn and other traumatized countries. A large number of adult international adoptees agree that the best option is always for a child to […]

Camille Claudel 1915

Written & Directed by Bruno Dumont Produced by Jean Brehat, Rachid Bouchareb & Muriel Merlin Released by Kino Lorber French with English subtitles France. 97 min. Not Rated With Juliette Binoche, Jean-Luc Vincent, Robert Leroy, Emmanuel Kauffman & Marion Keller Writer/director Bruno Dumont gives a strongly feminist interpretation to the tragic story of the thwarted […]

Kill Your Darlings

Directed by John Krokidas Written by Mr. Krokidas & Austin Bunn; Produced by Mr. Krokidas, Michael Benaroya, Christine Vachon & Rose Ganguzza Released by Sony Pictures Classics USA. 100 min. Rated R With Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Michael C. Hall, Jack Huston, Ben Foster, David Cross, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Elizabeth Olsen, Kyra Sedgwick & John […]

Harry Dean Stanton

Directed by Sophie Huber Produced by Christian Davi, Chiemi Karasawa, Christof Neracher, Thomas Thümena Released by Adopt Films Switzerland. 77 min. Not rated With Harry Dean Stanton, David Lynch, Deborah Harry, Win Wenders, Sam Shepard & Kris Kristofferson Roger Ebert once noted that no film with character actor Harry Dean Stanton could be all that […]

The Grandmaster

Directed by Wong Kar-Wai Written by Zou Jingzhi, Xu Haofeng & Wong, based on a story by Wong Produced by Wong & Jacky Pang Yee Wah Released by the Weinstein Company Mandarin with English subtitles Hong Kong/China. 130 min. Rated PG-13 With Tony Leung, Ziyi Zhang, Zhao Benshan, Chang Chen & Wang Qingxiang It would […]

Lovelace

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, […]