Written & Directed by Lynn Shelton Produced by Steven Schardt Released by IFC Films USA. 90 min. Rated R With Emily Blunt, Rosemarie DeWitt & Mark Duplass I’m amazed to find myself saying this, but thanks to Mark Duplass, director Lynn Shelton’s latest film is worth seeing. Barely. Well, this isn’t entirely true—it’s actually thanks […]
Directed by Matthew Akers Produced by Jeff Dupre & Maro Chermayeff Released by HBO Documentary Films/Music Box Films. USA. 105 min. Not rated This celebratory and fascinating documentary tops off what have been two very good years for the Yugoslavian-born artist Martina Abramovic. Her 2010 blockbuster retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, “The […]
Directed by Bruce Beresford Produced by Claude Dal Farra, Brice Dal Farra, Lauren Munsch & Jonathan Burkhart Written by Christina Mengert & Joseph Muszynski Released by IFC Films USA. 96 min. Rated R With Jane Fonda, Catherine Keener, Nat Wolff, Elizabeth Olsen, Chace Crawford,Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Kyle MacLachlan & Marissa O’Donnell Over 30 years ago […]
Directed by Colin Trevorrow Produced by Marc Turtletaub, Peter Saraf, Stephanie Langhoff, Trevorrow & Derek Connolly Written by Connolly Released by FilmDistrict USA. 95 min. Rated R With Aubrey Plaza, Mark Duplass, Jake Johnson, Karan Soni, Jenica Bergere, Kristen Bell, Jeff Garlin & Mary Lynn Rajskub In a parallel universe, Safety Not Guaranteed would get […]
Directed by Wes Anderson Produced by Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales & Jeremy Dawson Written by Anderson & Roman Coppola Released by Focus Features USA. 100 min. Rated PG-13 With Bruce Willis , Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Jason Schwartzman & Bob Balaban Next year marks the centennial […]
Director by Yoichi Sai Producer by Nozomu Enoki, Ichiro Yamamoto Written by: Shoichi Maruyama & Yoshihiro Nakamura, based on the novel Modoken Quill No Issho by Ryohei Akimoto Released by Music Box Films Japanese with English subtitles Japan. 100 min. Not Rated (it should be rated G) With Kaoru Kobayashi, Kippei Shiina, Teruyuki Kagawa, Keiko […]
Directed by Andrei Zvyagintsev Produced by Alexander Rodnyansky & Sergey Melkumov Written by Oleg Negin & Zvyagintsev Released by Zeitgeist Films Russian with English subtitles. Russia. 109 min. Not rated With Nadezhda Markina, Andrei Smirnov, Yelena Lyadova, Alexey Rozin, Evgenia Konushkina & Igor Ogurtsov Sometimes a festival jury gets it right, recognizing an unknown filmmaker […]
Directed by Nadine Labaki Produced by Anne-Dominique Toussaint Written by Labaki, Jihad Hojeily & Rodney Al Haddad Released by Sony Pictures Classics France/Lebanon/Egypt/Italy. 100 min. Rated PG-13 English, Arabic & Russian with English subtitles With Labaki, Claude Baz Moussawbaa, Julien Farhat, Yvonne Maalouf, Oxana Chihane Where Do We Go Now? is about as feel-good a […]
Directed by Richard Linklater Produced by Linkater & Ginger Sledge Written by Linklater & Skip Hollandsworth Released by Millennium Entertainment USA. 104 min. Rated R With Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, Matthew McConaughey, Brady Coleman, Richard Robichaux & Rick Dial Based on one of those true stories that are memorable, but not exactly incredible, regional human […]