Directed by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard Written by Mr. Forsyth, Pollard and Nick Cave Produced by James Wilson and Dan Bowen Released by Drafthouse Films UK. 97 min. Not rated Nick Cave must say the word transformation about a half a dozen times in the quash-documentary 20,000 Days on Earth. It’s what he feels […]
Written and Directed by Nadav Schirman, based on the memoir Son of Hamas by Mosab Hassan Yousef Produced by Schirman, John Battsek and Simon Chinn Released by Music Box Films Germany/Israel/UK. 101 min. Rated PG-13 This summer’s front page photographs from Gaza of masked Hamas gunmen executing accused collaborators with Israel gives The Green Prince […]
Directed by Catherine Gund Produced by Gund and Tanya Salvaratnam USA. 82 min. Not rated This look at the life and work of choreographer Elizabeth Streb features some genuinely jaw-dropping moments. They are compiled from a career spent pushing the limits of motion in search of a kind of human flight. Of course, the first […]
Produced and Directed by Rory Kennedy Written by Mark Bailey and Keven McAlester Released by American Experience Films USA. 98 min. Not rated The first-person accounts in Last Days in Vietnam put the audience into a gripping you-are-there Saigon in April 1975, when the United States ingloriously exited from 20 years of involvement while the […]
Directed by Shosh Shlam and Hilla Medalia Produced by Medalia, Shlam and Neta Zwebner-Zaibert Released by Kino Lorber Films Mandarin with English subtitles USA/Israel. 79 min. Not rated On its own, the Internet can be a scary place. Compounded with addiction, there’s no telling how deeply the rabbit hole might take us. The documentary Web Junkie […]
Produced and Directed by Tracy Droz Tragos and Andrew Droz Palermo Released by the Orchard USA. 91 min. Not rated While watching this film, I thought back to the times that I discussed the topic of poverty in America with my students in government class. It never ceased to amaze me that many of these […]
Directed by Mitra Farahani Produced by Marjaneh Moghimi Released by Music Box Films Farsi with English subtitles USA/Iran/France. 97 min. Not rated Some people make living an art form. This portrait of the artist as an old man follows Bahman Mohassess, an exiled Iranian painter and sculptor, as he attempts to live (and die) according […]
Directed by John Bruno, Andrew Wight, and Ray Quint Produced by Wight and Brett Popplewell Released by National Geographic Entertainment USA. 90 min. Rated PG People often grow up fantasizing about outer space and/or the Earth’s oceans, the two great canvasses available for boundless possibility and discovery. James Cameron is at the far end of the […]
Produced and Directed by Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren Directed by Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren Released by Drafthouse Films USA. 110 min. Not rated In August 1972, John Wojtowicz robbed a bank in Brooklyn, taking hostages and enduring a 13-hour standoff with the police. The unsuccessful heist granted Wojtowicz 15 minutes of fame, which […]