Directed & Photographed by Gianfranco Rosi Produced by Serge Lalou & Gianfranco Rosi Original story by Charles Bowden Released by Icarus Films Spanish with English subtitles USA/France. 84 min. Not rated As many great filmmakers know, the suggestion of violence is often more powerful than seeing it. A hint, a moment, or a fragment gives […]
Directed by Norberto López Amado and Carlos Carcas Produced by Elena Ochoa Written by Deyan Sudjic Released by First Run Features UK/Spain. 78 min. Not rated This flattering portrait of the renowned British modernist architect Norman Foster is an inspiring story of how a working-class guy from Manchester rose by sheer dint of talent to […]
Directed by Chad Freidrichs Produced by Chad Freidrichs, Jaime Freidrichs, Paul Fehler & Brian Woodman Written by Chad & Jaime Freidrichs Released by First Run Features USA. 83min. Not Rated The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: An Urban History begins with a shocking image. Not the dramatic, notorious television footage of the 1972 implosion of an 11-story building […]
Direction, Sound & Editing by Frederick Wiseman Produced by Pierre Olivier Bardet & Wiseman Relealsed by Zipporah Films English & French with English subtitles USA/France. 134 min. Not rated The subjects of Crazy Horse are drop-dead gorgeous, and have their nude bodies caressed by the camera for much of the 134-minute running time. But since […]
The lives of creative Jews—actors, singers, dancers, and more—are the insightful highlights of the program’s 21st edition, presented by the Jewish Museum and the Film Society of Lincoln Center (January 11 – 26). The most unusual selection is Mary Lou, a moving four-episode TV musical miniseries that exuberantly uses the songs of 1970s Israeli pop […]
Directed by Kurt Markus & Ian Markus Produced by Kurt Markus & Maria Markus Written by Kurt Markus Released by MPI Media Group USA. 80 min. Not Rated What becomes a rock ‘n’ roll legend most? Commissioning a film crew to follow him around on tour and recording an album. But John Mellencamp gave the […]
Written & Directed by Wim Wenders Produced by Wenders & Gian-Piero Ringel Released by Sundance Selects Germany/France. 106 min. Rated PG English & German, Russian, Italian, French, Slovenian, Korean, Spanish & Portuguese with English subtitles Pina opens at the proscenium stage of the Wuppertal Theater in western Germany and then quickly plunges the audience into […]
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 & […]