Produced & Directed by Edmon Roch Written by Roch, Isaki Lacuesta & María Hervera Released by First Run Features English, Spanish, Catalan & German with English subtitles Spain. 87 min. Not rated Greta Garbo, Leslie Howard, George C. Scott, and George Sanders: this thriller-cum-documentary offers the biggest cast of stars this year. The liberal excerpts […]
Directed by Werner Herzog Produced by Erik Nelson Released by Sundance Selects USA. 106 min. Not rated With Into the Abyss, director Werner Herzog takes a startlingly clear-eyed look at crime and capital punishment in Texas. His subtitle, “A Tale of Death, A Tale of Life,” emphasizes how he edits a series of frank interviews […]
Written & Directed by Angelina Maccarone Produced by Gerd Haag, Serge Lalou, Michael Trabitzsch & Charlotte Uzu Released by Kino Lorber French with English subtitles Germany/France. 94 min. Not rated With Charlotte Rampling, Paul Auster, Peter Lindbergh & Jurgen Teller In her intriguing documentary about the eponymous British actress, director Angelina Maccarone employs an ingenious […]
Directed by Rachel Fleischer Produced by Joanna Adler & Fleischer Released by Breaking Glass USA. 74 min. Not rated Rachel Fleischer’s documentary Without a Home is vital. It takes advocacy for a cause and embeds it in a truly moving story. Her film makes the invisible visible and gives a voice to a population, the […]
Written & Directed by Andrea Blaugrund NevinsProduced by Cristan ReillyReleased by Oscilloscope LaboratoriesUSA. 99 min. Not ratedWith Jim Lindberg, Flea, Tony Adolescent, Fat Mike, Tony Hawk, Mark Mothersbaugh, Ron Reyes, Tim Mcllrath, Joe Escalante, Mark Hoppus & Lars Fredericksen Fat Mike of the band NOFX sprays fake butter on his daughter’s toast, Mark Hoppus of […]
Don’t panic if you couldn’t make it the recent New York Film Festival. Most of the films screened have an American distributor lined up and will open in the upcoming months, like the acclaimed A Separation and The Kid on the Bike. The claustrophobic cacophony Carnage, which opened the event, will be released on December […]
Directed by Roland Legiardi-Laura, Edwin Martinez, Deborah Shaffer & Amy Sultan Produced by Legiardi-Laura, Martinez, Shaffer, Sultan, Jill & Jim Angelo Released by Dialogue Pictures USA. 87min. Not rated Three poetry teachers—Amy Sultan, Joe Ubiles, and Roland Legiardi-Laura—have led a “radical poetry” workshop they call Power Writing at University Heights High School in the Bronx […]
Directed by Alma Har’el Produced by Har’el & Boaz Yakin Released by Boaz Yakin Presents USA. 80 min. Not Rated Director Alma Har’el takes a rambling tour of the human fauna in a Sonoran Desert ghost town at the southeastern tip of California. Over the course of a year, she uses several different visual techniques […]
Produced & Directed by Steve Mims & Joe Bailey Jr. Released by Truly Indie/Yokel USA. 102 min. Not rated A courtroom truism is when the facts are against you, argue the law, when the law is against you, argue the facts. But when a documentary about injustice piles on the facts, it still needs to […]