Written & Directed by Jia Zhang-ke Produced by Shozo Ichiyama Released by Kino Lorber Mandarin with English subtitles. China. 125 min. Not rated With Zhao Tao, Jiang Wu, Wang Baoqiang & Luo Lanshan One of the greatest filmmakers currently working, Jia Zhangke has become one of the most vital and poetic chroniclers of modern day […]
Directed by David M. Rosenthal Written by Matthew F. Jones, based on his novel Produced by Aaron L. Gilbert, Chris Coen & Keith Kjarval, Jeff Rice Released by Tribeca Film/Well/Go USA Entertainment With Sam Rockwell, William H. Macy, Jeffery Wright, Jason Isaacs, Kelly Reilly, Joe Anderson, Ophelia Lovibond, Ted Levine & Melissa Leo Don’t the […]
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 Joachim Lafosse Produced by Jacques-Henri & Olivier Bronckart, Jani Thiltges, Sylvie Pialat & Thierry Spicher Written by Thomas Bidegain, Lafosse & Matthieu Reynaert Released by Distrib Films Belgium. 111 min. Not Rated French & Arabic with English subtitles With Tahar Rahim, Émilie Dequenne, Niels Arestrup, Baya Belal, Mounia Raoui & Redouane Behache Our […]
Directed by Havana Marking Produced by Mike Lerner Released by Doppelgänger Releasing UK. 90 min. Not rated Wow. Talk about free publicity. The July 28th robbery of an estimated $137 million worth of jewelry on the French Riviera (at the Carlton International hotel, coincidentally a location in Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief) occurred just days […]
Written & Directed by Rowan Athale Produced by Ed Barratt, Mark Foligno, Gareth Pritchard Released by Oscilloscope Laboratories UK. 106 min. Not rated With Luke Treadaway, Timothy Spall, Matthew Lewis, Iwan Rheon, Vanessa Kirby, Neil Maskell & Gerard Kearns British director Rowan Athale’s feature debut opens in the gloomy confines of a police station, where battered […]
Written & Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn Produced by Refn, Lene Borglum, Sidonie Dumas & Vincent Maraval Released by Radius/TWC France/Thailand/USA/Sweden. 90 min. Rated R (what else?) With Ryan Gosling, Kristin Scott Thomas, Vithaya Pansringarm, Tom Burke, Rhatha Phongam & Gordon Brown In the seedy underbelly of Bangkok, Billy (Tom Burke), a calm but salacious […]
Narrated, Written & Directed by Matthew Cooke Produced by Adrian Grenier & Bert Marcus Released by Tribeca Film USA. 96 min. Not Rated In memorable scenes from the TV series The Wire, an ambitious CFO to a Baltimore drug kingpin ran business seminars for his middle-management dealers to explain how to maximize the criminal organization’s […]
Written & Directed by Tobias Lindholm Produced by Tomas Radoor & René Ezra Released by Magnolia Pictures English, Somali & Danish with English subtitles Denmark. 99 min. Not rated With Pilou Asbaek, Soren Malling, Dar Salim, Roland Moller, Gary Skjoldmose Porter & Abdihakin Asgar Tobias Lindholm’s tense, compelling drama A Hijacking is often as stark […]