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The Names of Love

Directed by Michel Leclerc Produced by Caroline Adrien, Antoine Rein & Fabrice Goldstein Written by Leclerc & Baya Kasmi Released by Music Box Films French with English subtitles France. 102 min. Rated R With Jacques Gamblin, Sara Forestier, Carole Franck, Zinedine Soualem, Michèle Moretti & Jacques Boudet French director Michael Leclerc’s romantic comedy follows an […]

Buck

Directed by Cindy Meehl Produced by Julie Goldman Released by Sundance Selects USA. 88 min. Not Rated By the time Buck Brannaman’s mother died at the age of 11, his already abusive father ramped up the level of physical and emotional abuse on Buck and his brother. Fortunately for the boys, they were placed with […]

Viva Riva!

Written, Produced & Directed by Djo Tunda Wa Munga Released by Music Box Films Lingala & French with English subtitles Democratic Republic of the Congo. 96 min. Rated R With Patsha Bay Mukuna, Manie Malone, Hoji Fortuna, Alex Herbo, Marlene Longange, Diplome Amekindra & Angelique Mbumba   Viva Riva! is the first film to be […]

Hesher

Directed by Spencer Susser Produced by Lucy Cooper, Matthew Weaver, Scott Prisand, Natalie Portman, Spencer Susser, Johnny Lin & Win Sheridan Written by Susser & David Michôd, based on a story by Brian Charles Frank Released by Wrekin Hill Entertainment USA. 102 min. Rated R With Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Devin Brochu, Rainn Wilson, Piper Laurie & […]

Nostalgia for the Light

  Written, Directed & Narrated by Patricio Guzmán Produced by Renate Sachse Released by Icarus Films Spanish with English subtitles France/Germany/Chile. 90 min. Not Rated Nostalgia is a powerful emotion. It essentially derives its force from a false remembrance of history. Nostalgia, the longing to return home, is never about a real home, but an […]

Bill Cunningham New York

Directed by Richard Press Produced by Philip Gefter Released by Zeitgeist Films USA. 84 min. Not Rated   Bicycling around Manhattan on his 29th Schwinn—the first 28 were stolen—photographer Bill Cunningham is constantly on the look out for the latest fashion trends. He shrewdly realized some time in the early ’80s that the answer is […]

Vidal Sassoon: The Movie

Edited & Directed by Craig Teper Produced by Jackie Gilbert Bauer and Michael Gordon Released by Phase 4 Films USA. 94 min. Rated PG   Vidal Sassoon: The Movie combines the first history of the evanescent art of hairstyling (as both fashion and a business) with the biography of the 20th century’s leading practitioner. There’s […]

Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale

Written & Directed by Jalmari Helander, based on an idea by the Helander Brothers Produced by Petri Jokiranta Released by Oscilloscope Laboratories Finnish with English subtitles Finland. 80 min. Not Rated With Onni Tommila, Jorma Tommila, Per Christian Ellefsen, Tommi Korpela, Rauno Juvonen, Ilmari Jarvenpaa & Peeter Jakobi There’s no easy way to prepare you […]