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Boyhood

Written and Directed by Richard Linklater Produced by Linklater, Cathleen Sutherland, Jonathan Sehring and John Sloss Released by IFC Films USA. 165 min. Rated R With Patricia Arquette, Ellar Coltrane, Lorelei Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Marco Perella, Jamie Howard and Andrew Villarreal Richard Linklater is one of a handful of American filmmakers who is completely fearless, […]

Burning Bush

Directed by Agnieszka Holland Produced by Tomas Kruby and Pavla Kubeckova Written by Stepan Hulik Released by Kino Lorber Czech with English subtitles Czech Republic. 234 min. (Parts 1 & 2: 160 min, Part 3: 80 min.) Not rated With Tatiana Pauhofova, Ivan Trojan, Jaroslava Pokorna, Vojtech Kotek, Dagmar Buresova, Adrian Jastraban, Emma Smetana, Patrik […]

Stalingrad

Directed by Fedor Bondarchuk Written by Ilya Tilkin & Sergey Snezhkin, based on the novel by Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman Produced by Alexander Rodnyansky, Anton Zlatopolskiy, Dmitry Rudovskiy & Sergey Melkumov Released by Columbia Pictures/Imax 3D Russian & German with English subtitles Russia. 135 min. Rated R With Mariya Smolnikova, Yanina Studilina, Petr […]

Generation War

Directed by Philipp Kadelbach Produced by Nico Hofmann Written by Stefan Kolditz Released by Music Box Films Germany. Part one: 131 min.; Part two: 148 min. Not rated English, German, & Polish with English subtitles With Volker Bruch, Tom Schilling, Katharina Schüttler, Ludwig Trepte & Miriam Stein Generation War sweeps away a half century of […]

Chander Pahar (Mountain of the Moon)

Written & Directed by Kamaleshwar Mukherjee, from the novel by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay Produced by Shrikant Mohta & Mahendra Soni Released by IABA LLC Bengali with English subtitles India. 148 min. Not rated With Dev Akhikari, Gerard Rudolf, Martin Cito Otto, Nabeel Khan, Paul Ditchfield & David James Chander Pahar (Mountain of the Moon) is an […]

1911

Directed by Zhang Li & Jackie Chan Produced by Wang Zhebin & Chan Written by Wang Xingdong & Chen Baoguang Released by Well Go USA/Variance Films Mandarin with English subtitles China/Hong Kong. 125 min. Rated R With Jackie Chan, Joan Chen, Lee Bing Bing, Winston Chao & Jaycee Chan A historical Chinese epic about the […]