Produced & Directed by Lisa Immordino Vreeland Released by Samuel Goldwyn Films/Epix USA. 86 min. Rated PG-13 “Faction,” the blending of real life and fiction, is the word Diana Vreeland uses to describe the most interesting stories of her extraordinary life. Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel makes note that her sense of history, […]
Directed by David France Written by France, T. Woody Richman & Tyler H. Walk Produced by Howard Gertler & France Released by Sundance Selects USA. 110 min. Not rated This powerful and highly charged documentary takes us through the pivotal years in the history of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, better known as Act […]
Directed & Produced by Paul Lovelace & Jessica Wolfson Released by Kino Lorber USA. 87 min. Not rated Radio Unnameable is a fan’s portrait of the counterculture radio personality who helped create free-form radio and turned what was considered a one-way medium into a forerunner of the interactive social media that has now almost passed […]
Directed & Produced by Linda Goldstein Knowlton Released by Long Shot Factory USA. 88 min. Not Rated English, Mandarin & Spanish with English subtitles When the legal, financial, and cultural issues around international adoption make the news, the associated images might include adorable babies and toddlers with anxious and grateful childless couples. However, Somewhere Between […]
Directed by Macarena Aguiló Produced by Aguiló & Juan Manuel Egaña Written by Aguiló & Susana Foxley Released by Magic Lantern Spanish with English subtitles Chile/France/Cuba/The Netherlands. 99 min. Not rated As courts in Chile still deal with the ruthlessness of the military dictatorship that controlled the country from the 1970s to the 1990s, the […]
Edited & Directed by Anthony Baxter Produced by Richard Phinney Written by Phinney & Baxter Released by International Film Circuit USA. 96 min. Not rated Hubris is on willing display in this modest exposé-documentary by Scottish filmmaker Anthony Baxter on billionaire real estate developer Donald Trump’s quest to build the world’s greatest golf course in […]
Directed by Alison Klayman Produced by Klayman & Adam Schlesinger Released by Sundance Selects English & Mandarin with English subtitles USA. 91 min. Rated R Last year, journalist Alison Klayman’s camera was at the eye of the international human rights storm over Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. Her resulting debut documentary goes behind the headlines to […]
Edited, Written & Directed by Malik Bendjelloul Produced by Simon Chinn & Bendjelloul Released by Sony Pictures Classics Sweden/UK. 85 min. Rated PG-13 In this entertaining musical mystery tour, pop culture crosses politics and geographical borders to remarkably touch the lives of an artist and his fans in unexpected ways. From the wide open spaces […]
Written & Directed by Yung Chang Produced by Bob Moore, Peter Wintonick, Han Yi & Zhao Qi Released by Zeitgeist Films Chinese & Sichuanese with English subtitles China/Canada. 89 min. Not rated At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, three Chinese boxers won gold, silver, and bronze medals, almost 50 years since Mao banned boxing, declaring it […]