Produced & Directed by Charles Evans Jr. Released by Variance Films USA. 102 min. Rated PG-13 The current demonization of Wall Street may have helped trigger the current protest movement, but there’s an even more hated entity in the minds of most Americans: Big Tobacco. Cigarette companies are the most egregious example of corporate greed […]
Produced & Directed by Alex Stapleton Produced by Stone Douglass, Mickey Barold, Stapleton, Izabela Frank & Jeff Frey Written by Stapleton & Gregory Locklear Released by Anchor Bay Films USA. 90 min. Rated R With Jack Nicholson, Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Joe Dante, Dick Miller, Robert De Niro, Pam Grier, David Carradine, Peter Bogdanovich & […]
Shot, Produced & Directed by Ian Palmer Released by Arc Entertainment Ireland. 97 min. Rated R From the poster for Knuckle, one might get the impression that this is another underdog drama like The Fighter or Warrior. Not so. This is a documentary and is not about underdogs, per se. It’s about blue-collar Irish […]
Produced & Directed by Cyril Tuschi Released by Kino Lorber Films @ @ @ @ @ English, Russian & German with English subtitles; Germany. 111 min. Not rated For anyone who’s followed the past decade’s political events in Russia even slightly, the documentary Khodorkovsky won’t be very surprising or revelatory. That the nation under The […]
Directed & Written by Martyn Burke Produced by Burke & Anthony Feinstein Released by Mercury Media Entertainment Canada. 90 min. Not Rated Director Martyn Burke interviews nine gutsy men and women who make possible the claim that “The whole world is watching” and reveals the personal cost of bringing first-hand information of conflict and war […]
The just-concluded Other Israel Film Festival showcased notable films by and about the 20 percent of Israeli citizens who are Arab (Christian, Muslim, Bedouin, and Druze) and other minorities, like migrant workers and immigrants. (Some of the films from previous editions, and other festival activities, are also streaming online on demand at OtherIsraelOnDemand.org.) Including U.S. […]
Directed by Tatiana Issa & Raphael Alvarez Produced by Tria Productions & Canal Brasil English & Portuguese with English subtitles Brazil. 110 min. Not rated “Gays don’t die. They turn into glitter.” These words of wisdom were told to co-director Tatiana Issa when she was a girl by her father, a technician for the Brazilian […]
Produced & Directed by Edmon Roch Written by Roch, Isaki Lacuesta & María Hervera Released by First Run Features English, Spanish, Catalan & German with English subtitles Spain. 87 min. Not rated Greta Garbo, Leslie Howard, George C. Scott, and George Sanders: this thriller-cum-documentary offers the biggest cast of stars this year. The liberal excerpts […]
Directed by Werner Herzog Produced by Erik Nelson Released by Sundance Selects USA. 106 min. Not rated With Into the Abyss, director Werner Herzog takes a startlingly clear-eyed look at crime and capital punishment in Texas. His subtitle, “A Tale of Death, A Tale of Life,” emphasizes how he edits a series of frank interviews […]