Directed by Jeff Orlowski Produced by Paula Dupre’ Pesmen & Jerry Aronson Written by Mark Monroe Released by Submarine Deluxe USA. 75 min. PG-13 Superstorm Sandy gives the documentary Chasing Ice timely relevance. Through the lens of a modern Arctic explorer, glaciers are seen melting alarmingly fast into waves that have pushed the sea level […]
Written, Produced & Directed by David Fisher Released by Nancy Fishman Film Releasing English, German & Hebrew with English subtitles Israel/Germany/Austria. 97 min. Not rated Six Million and One adds to the documentary canon of the Holocaust as it grapples with the repercussions and impact decades later on the next generation. A dozen years ago, […]
Directed and Written by Arnon Goldfinger Produced by Goldfinger & Thomas Kufus Released by Sundance Selects Hebrew, English & German with English subtitles Israel/Germany. 97 min. Not rated The Flat starts as an ordinary family gathering, the type familiar to many of us, and turns into an extraordinary story. Director Arnon Goldfinger, a humanistic and […]
Directed by Till Schauder Produced by Sara Nodjoumi & Schauder Released by Partner Pictures USA/Germany/Iran. 93 min. Not rated Despite being a documentary about an American basketball player who goes overseas to play for a down-and-out Iranian team, the final images of The Iran Job are of Iranian women. Kevin Sheppard, a basketball player from […]
Produced & Directed by Lisa Immordino Vreeland Released by Samuel Goldwyn Films/Epix USA. 86 min. Rated PG-13 “Faction,” the blending of real life and fiction, is the word Diana Vreeland uses to describe the most interesting stories of her extraordinary life. Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel makes note that her sense of history, […]
Directed by David France Written by France, T. Woody Richman & Tyler H. Walk Produced by Howard Gertler & France Released by Sundance Selects USA. 110 min. Not rated This powerful and highly charged documentary takes us through the pivotal years in the history of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, better known as Act […]
Directed & Produced by Paul Lovelace & Jessica Wolfson Released by Kino Lorber USA. 87 min. Not rated Radio Unnameable is a fan’s portrait of the counterculture radio personality who helped create free-form radio and turned what was considered a one-way medium into a forerunner of the interactive social media that has now almost passed […]
Directed & Produced by Linda Goldstein Knowlton Released by Long Shot Factory USA. 88 min. Not Rated English, Mandarin & Spanish with English subtitles When the legal, financial, and cultural issues around international adoption make the news, the associated images might include adorable babies and toddlers with anxious and grateful childless couples. However, Somewhere Between […]
Directed by Macarena Aguiló Produced by Aguiló & Juan Manuel Egaña Written by Aguiló & Susana Foxley Released by Magic Lantern Spanish with English subtitles Chile/France/Cuba/The Netherlands. 99 min. Not rated As courts in Chile still deal with the ruthlessness of the military dictatorship that controlled the country from the 1970s to the 1990s, the […]