Directed by Werner Herzog & Dmitry Vasyukov Produced by Christoph Fisser, Vladimir Perepelkin, Nick N. Raslan & Charlie Woebcken Written by Herzog & Rudolph Herzog Released by Music Box Films English & Russian with English subtitles Germany. 100 min. Not rated The documentary Happy People: A Year in the Taiga—which was shot not by director […]
Written & Directed by Im Sang-soo Produced by Lee Nam-hee & Seo Jung-hun Released by Sundance Selects. Korean with English subtitles. South Korea. 114 min. Not rated With Kim Kang-woo, Baek Yoon-sik, Youn Yuh-jung, Maui Taylor, Darcy Paquet & Kim Hyo-jin In an early scene in Im Sang-soo’s lurid, arty soap opera The Taste of […]
Directed by Michael Apted Produced by Apted & Claire Lewis Released by First Run Features UK. 144 min. Not rated With 56 Up, the granddaddy of longitudinal documentaries, impressively reaches grandparenthood. Michael Apted’s first job was as a researcher selecting a cross-section of 14 British seven year olds for the 1964 U.K. TV documentary Seven […]
Directed by Jaume Balagueró Produced by Julio Fernández Written by Alberto Maurini Released by Dark Sky Films/MPI Media Group Spain. 102 min. Not rated With Luis Tosar, Marta Etura, Alberto San Juan, Petra Martinez, Iris Almeida, and Carlos Lasuarte César (Luis Tosar) works at the front desk as the concierge of a small Barcelona apartment […]
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow Produced by Mark Boal, Bigelow & Megan Ellison Written by Boal Released by Columbia Pictures USA. 156 min. Rated R With Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Ehle, Mark Strong, Kyle Chandler, Edgar Ramirez, James Gandolfini, Chris Pratt, Callan Mulvey, Fares Fares, Reda Kateb & Stephen Dillane Much ink and […]
Directed by Dustin Hoffman Produced by Finola Dwyer & Stewart Mackinnon Written by Ronald Harwood, based on his play Released by the Weinstein Company UK. 98 min. Rated PG-13 With Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Michael Gambon, Billy Connolly, Gwyneth Jones, Sheridan Smith & Pauline Collins Quartet follows on the recent success of The Best Exotic […]
Directed by Marcel Rasquin Written by Rohan Jones & Rasquin Produced by Enrique Aular, Juan Antonio Díaz & Rasquin Released by Music Box Films Spanish with English subtitles Venezuela. 97 min. Not rated With Fernando Moreno, Eliú Armas, Alí Rondon, Beto Benites, Gonzalo Cubero & Marcela Girón Venezuela’s 2010 selection for the Best Foreign Language […]
Written & Directed by Quentin Tarantino Produced by Stacy Sher, Reginald Hudlin & Pilar Savone Released by the Weinstein Company USA. 165 min. Rated R With Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Don Johnson, Walton Goggins, Jonah Hill, Bruce Dern & Franco Nero A filmmaker’s love for his art can […]
Directed by J. A. Bayona Produced by Belén Atienza, Álvaro Augustin, Enrique López-Lavigne & Ghislain Barrois Written by Sergio G. Sánchez Released by Summit Entertainment Spain. 114 min. Rated PG-13 With Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor & Tom Holland The Impossible is promoted as a true story of one family’s harrowing experience during the Indian Ocean […]