Directed by Simon Brook Produced by Mr. Brook, Ermanno Olmi, Luigi Musini & Jean-Pierre Eklou Attisso Released by Brook Productions, Cinemaundici & ARTE France in association with the International Center for Theatre Research English & French with English subtitles Italy/France. 86 min. Not rated Theater legend Peter Brook sprang to international prominence decades ago by […]
Directed by Teller Produced by Penn Jillette & Farley Ziegler Released by Sony Pictures Classics USA. 80 min. Rated PG-13 Hailing from the Iowa cornfields, high school graduate, self-taught techie inventor, and self-made millionaire Tim Jenison turns his life over to a wonky but accessible pursuit. He spends his considerable resources and time traveling the […]
Directed by Treva Wurmfeld Produced by Amy Hobby Edited by Sandra Adair Released by Music Box Films USA. 89 min. Not rated Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Academy Award nominated actor Sam Shepard accepts a proposal to publish decades-worth of correspondence between himself and best friend Johnny Dark. He looks at the opportunity as a new creative venture. […]
Produced & Directed by Megumi Sasaki Released by Fine Line Media USA. 86 min. Not rated Here’s a superhero sequel movie worth seeing! The Vogels, mild-mannered retirees Herb the postal worker and Dorothy the librarian, thrilled viewers in director Megumi Sasaki’s first documentary feature, Herb & Dorothy (2008), and won more admirers after it was […]
Directed by Zachary Heinzerling Produced by Heinzerling, Lydia Dean Pilcher, Patrick Burns & Sierra Pettengill Released by Radius/TWC USA. 82 min. Rated R Just show up. That sound and practical advice applies for actors who schlep from one discouraging audition to another or when you really don’t want to go near a gym. Off and […]
Written & Directed by Tanner King Barklow & Gil Kofman Produced by Francis Krow Released by Seventh Art Releasing/Antidote Films USA/China. 90 min. Not rated Unmade in China tells a story that is both entertaining and unsurprising, tracking the trials and tribulations of Gil Kofman, an American director (The Memory Thief) trying to make a […]
Directed by Matthew Akers Produced by Jeff Dupre & Maro Chermayeff Released by HBO Documentary Films/Music Box Films. USA. 105 min. Not rated This celebratory and fascinating documentary tops off what have been two very good years for the Yugoslavian-born artist Martina Abramovic. Her 2010 blockbuster retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, “The […]
Directed by Andrew Shea Produced by Shea, David D’Arcy & Barbara Morgan Written by Shea & D’Arcy Released by Seventh Art Releasing USA/Austria. 90 min. Not Rated Portrait of Wally is a real-life thriller that starts out as an historical legacy from the Holocaust, then ratchets up into a contemporary scandal with rich villains suavely […]
During its final days, the Tribeca Film Festival world premiered three New York-centric fine arts documentaries. The most penetrating of the trio, Wagner’s Dream is an engrossing look behind the curtain of the Metropolitan Opera, and is the perhaps best film about that art form, fictional or otherwise, though it may have that field all […]