Directed by Deidre Schoo and Michael Beach Nichols Produced by Schoo, Nichols, and Christopher K. Walker Released by Baxter Brothers Film Releasing USA. 86 min. Not rated In Brooklyn, there’s a dance style known as flexing. Its practitioners claim there are “no rules and no boundaries.” They use everything they can think of—costumes, stunts, masks, […]
Directed by Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller Produced by Geller, Goldfine and Celeste Schaefer Snyder Released by Zeitgeist Films USA. 120 min. Not rated With the voices of Cate Blanchett, Sebastian Koch, Thomas Kretschmann, Diane Kruger, Connie Neilsen and Josh Radnor It’s rare that filmmakers stumbles onto a true story with all the elements of […]
Directed by Errol Morris Produced by Morris, Amanda Branson Gill and Robert Fernandez Released by RADIUS-TWC USA. 102 min. Rated PG-13 The Unknown Known gives you a front seat to recent history through the calculated point of view of one man who, astonishingly, was at the right hand of Republican power for almost 50 years. […]
Two films in this year’s New Directors/New Films program represent the breed of hybrid blending of fact and fiction that both of its sponsoring institutions are also championing in separate annual series, the Museum of Modern Art in its just completed Documentary Fortnight International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media and the Film Society of […]
Directed by Rithy Panh Produced by Catherine Dussart Written by Panh and Christophe Bataille French with English subtitles Released by Strand Releasing Cambodia/France. 92 min. Not rated The Missing Picture creatively relives the Cambodian holocaust and surmounts the storytelling problem intrinsic to retelling such horrors. Time inexorably passes, evidence disappears, and the last witnesses grow […]
Written, Produced and Directed by John Maloof and Charlie Siskel Released by Sundance Selects USA. 83 min. Not rated If you put aside the deep knowledge Finding Vivian Maier imparts about an undeniably powerful contributor to photography, and the stark sense of the wildly eccentric character behind the images, you are left with one of […]
Directed by Tom Berninger Released by Abramorama Entertainment USA. 74 min. Not rated Matt Berninger, the lead singer of the indie rock band the National, is a very self-possessed individual. He is slim and handsome with steel blue gimlet eyes. When his band’s concerts begin, he strolls on stage with a glass of red wine […]
Directed by Robert May Produced by May and Lauren Timmons Released by SenArt Films USA. 102 min. Rated PG-13 Kids for Cash is a Frontline-style documentary that adds considerable behind-the-headlines insight from the perspectives of the families, the investigators, and the accused, despite the frustrating blank holes that are filled with rage against the machine […]
Directed by Stephanie Riggs Produced by Blair Erickson & Rigs Released by Sunchaser Entertainment USA. 76 min. Not rated Pay attention to the man behind the curtain. He may be just as talented as the wizard you’re watching onstage. Such is the thesis of The Standbys, which follows three Broadway hopefuls as they perfect the […]