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 […]
Directed by Mark Meatto Produced by Michael Bohlmann & Meatto Released by International Film Circuit USA/UK. 88 min. Not Rated How to Grow a Band has a promising story to follow. A young, gifted musician rises from a narrow genre to commercial success, falls into personal turmoil, and finds catharsis with a new mode of […]
Written & Directed by Philippe Falardeau, based on the stage play by Evelyne de la Chenelière Produced by Luc Déry & Kim McCraw Released by Music Box Films French with English subtitles. Canada. 94 min. Rated PG-13 With Fellag, Sophie Nélisse, Émilien Néron, Danielle Proulx & Brigitte Poupart Director Philippe Falardeau certainly sets his sights […]
Written & Directed by Whit Stillman Produced by Mr. Stillman, Martin Shafer & Liz Glotzer Released by Sony Pictures Classics. USA. 99 min. Rated PG-13 With Greta Gerwig, Adam Brody, Analeigh Tipton, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Carrie MacLemore, Ryan Metcalf & Hugo Becker Whit Stillman’s first film since 1998’s The Last Days of Disco is an appreciated […]
Written & Directed by Jannicke Systad Jacobsen, based on the novel Fa Meg Pa, For Faen! by Olaug Nilssen Produced by Brede Hovland & Sigve Endresen Released by New Yorker Films Norwegian with English subtitles Norway. 76 min. Not Rated With Helene Bergsholm, Malin Bjorhovde, Beate Stofring, Matias Myren, Lars Nordtveit Listau & Henriette Steenstrup […]
Directed by Jon Shenk Produced by Richard Berge & Bonni Cohen Released by Samuel Goldwyn Films English & Dhievi with English subtitles USA. 101 min. Rated PG The Island President makes climate change dramatic, political, personal, and the right stuff of leadership. The imminent future of the 400,000 people who live on the beautiful islands […]
Directed by Ola Simonsson & Johannes Stjarne Nilsson Produced by Jim Birmant, Guy Péchard, Christophe Audeguis & Olivier Guerpillon Written by Simonsson & Nilsson, story by Simonsson, Nilsson & Birmant Released by Magnolia Pictures Sweden/France. 102 min. Rated R Swedish with English subtitles With Bengt Nilsson, Sanna Persson Halapi, Magnus Borjeson, Johannes Bjork, Fredrik Myhr, […]
Produced & Directed by Manfred Kirchheimer Released by First Run Features USA. 82 min. Not rated Veteran documentarian Manfred Kirchheimer (most recently 2007’s Spraymasters) employs the folk anthem “Which Side Are You On” in his newest film, assuming you’re already sympathetic to the causes that will be championed. The octogenarian German-born and NYC-trained cameraman/director has […]