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 […]
Directed by Samantha Grant Produced by Grant and Brittney Shepherd Released by Gush Productions/ITVS USA. 76 min. Not rated In the age of punditry dominating 24/7 cable TV news and Internet bloggers, tweeters, and infotainment gossip, it still matters that The New York Times, “The Great Gray Lady” founded as a counter to the 19th-century […]
Directed by Yoruba Riche Written by Ms. Richen and Erin Casper Produced by Richen and Yvonne Welbon USA. 75 min. Not rated The New Black film poses the question, are lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issues the new black? Is the struggle for marriage equality the forefront of civil rights in America today? The […]
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 […]