Written & Directed by Wes Anderson, based on a story by Anderson & Hugo Guinness, Produced by Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales & Jeremy Dawson Released by Fox Searchlight UK/Germany. 100 min. Rated R With Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Harvey Keitel, Jude Law, Bill Murray, […]
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 […]
Directed by Bruce Ramsay Canada. 87 min. Not rated Hamlet, Shakespeare’s longest play, runs more than four hours when left uncut. One would therefore expect that in a 90-minute adaptation there wouldn’t be a minute to spare. However, Bruce Ramsay, the star and director, has managed to find plenty of time to waste. To begin […]
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, […]
Produced & Directed by Ron Maxwell Written by Bill Kauffman, based on the novel by Harold Frederic Released by Brainstorm Media USA. 120 min. PG-13 With Billy Campbell, Angus MacFadyen, Peter Fonda, Casey Brown & Lucy Boynton Civil War sesquicentennial celebrations continue to reignite interest in the conflict that divided the nation over the issue […]
Written & Directed by Alice Winocour Produced by Isabelle Madelaine, Emilie Tisné, Michèle & Laurent Pétin Released by Music Box Films France. 102 min. Not Rated French with English subtitles With Vincent Lindon, Soko, Chiara Mastroianni, Olivier Rabourdin, & Roxane Duran Augustine is the third film in as many years about real 19th/early 20th century […]
Directed by Gilles Bourdos Produced by Olivier Delbosc & Marc Missonnier Written by Jérôme Tonnerre & Bourdos, with the contribution of Michel Spinosa, based on the book Le Tableau Amoureux by Jacques Renoir Released by Samuel Goldwyn Films France. 111 min. Rated R French with English subtitles With Michel Bouquet, Vincent Rottiers, Christa Théret, Thomas […]
Directed by Jin-ho Hur Produced by Chen Weiming Written by Yan Geling Released by Well Go USA Mandarin with English subtitles China/South Korea/Singapore. 104 min. Not rated With Zhang Ziyi, Jang Dong-gun, Cecilia Cheung, Shawn Dou , Lisa Lu & Candy Wang Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’ 1782 classic French novel Les Liaisons dangereuses, a tale […]
Directed by Joe Wright Produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, and Paul Webster Written by Tom Stoppard, based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy Released by Focus Features UK. 130 min. Rated R With Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Kelly Macdonald, Matthew Macfadyen, Domhnall Gleeson, Ruth Wilson, Alicia Vikander, Olivia Williams, Emily Watson & […]