Written and Directed by Carl Deal and Tia Lessin Produced by Deal, Lessin, and Gillian Caldwell Released by Variance Films USA. 86 min. Not Rated Wouldn’t it be timely for a documentary to closely investigate the ramifications of the Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission, which lifted restrictions on political […]
Produced and Directed by Jody Shapiro Released by Everyday Pictures Canada. 89 min. Not Rated The face on Burt’s Bees natural products is a pretty good likeness of the real-life beekeeper’s hirsute craggy face. Burt Shavitz’s beeswax was the original basis for the lip balm I use every day, and as the face of a […]
Directed by Kelly Reichardt Produced by Neil Kopp, Anish Savjani, Chris Maybach, Saemi Kim, Rodrigo Teixeira Written by Jon Raymond & Kelly Reichardt Released by Cinedigm Entertainment USA. 112 min. Rated R With Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning, Peter Sarsgaard, Alia Shawkat, Logan Miller, Kai Lennox, Katherine Waterston, James Le Gros What’s to be done to […]
Directed by Andreas Johnsen Produced by Katrine A. Sahlstrom Released by International Film Circuit English and Mandarin with English subtitles Denmark. 89 min. Not Rated Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case overlaps and then follows-up Alison Klayman’s Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012). But it stands alone as an intimate portrait of a stubborn artist inspired to […]
Directed and Written by Aaron Yeger Produced by Tom Rasky, Marc Swenker, Yeger, and Stephen C. Whitehead Released by First Run Features Canada. 99 min. Not rated A solitary figure walks slowly down a long wooded path. In voice-over we hear him all but whisper in a tone that hints of defeatism, that he wants […]
Edited, Produced, and Directed by Tamar Halpern and Chris Quilty Released by Tamaroland Pictures USA. 88 min. Not rated Halfway through Llyn Foulkes One Man Band, the title subject is at a gallery staring at one of his paintings. Actually it’s a photograph of a rock formation blown up to about 8 by 10 feet […]
Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski Produced by Eric Abraham, Piotr Dzieciol & Ewa Puszczynska Written by Pawlikowski and Rebecca Lenkiewicz Released by Music Box Films Polish with English subtitles Poland/Denmark. 83 min. Rated PG-13 With Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska, Dawid Ogrodnik and Joanna Kulig Ida is an exquisitely beautiful road trip through the emotional consequences of […]
Directed by Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez Produced by Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel Released by Cinema Guild English and Nepali with English subtitles USA. 118 min. Not rated Manakamana provides irresistible wish fulfillment for those who want a guilt-free opportunity to stare at fellow passengers on a transport. Let alone that each takes the […]
Directed by Hilla Medalia Produced by Diane Nabatoff, Neta Zwebner-Zaibert, and Hilla Medalia Written by Philip Shane and Medalia Released by Sundance Selects English, Hebrew, and Arabic with English subtitles USA. 88 min. Not rated In 1994, four-time ballroom dancing world champion Pierre Dulaine and his dance partner, Yvonne Marceau, started an educational program called […]