Written & Directed by Andrew Rossi Produced by Josh Braun & Rossi Released by Samuel Goldwyn Films/Participant Media USA. 90 min. Rated PG-13 There are few things more enjoyable than to critique the American higher education system, and Ivory Tower is one of the most slickly produced and entertaining cracks at it yet. Here, colleges […]
Directed by Mike Myers Produced by Myers and Beth Aala Released by Radius/TWC and A & E IndieFilms USA. 84 min. Rated R If success is all about promotion, then the fact that this is the debut directing effort by comic actor Mike Myers is one part of the package. Amidst the constant name-dropping, testimonials, […]
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 […]