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 […]
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 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 […]
Directed by Kevin Macdonald Produced by Liza Marshall Released by YouTube/Ridley Scott & Tony Scott/National Geographic Entertainment USA. 90 min. Rated PG-13 Life in a Day is the anecdote to every reality show you’ve ever seen. A year ago, producer Ridley Scott asked YouTube users to film themselves for a single day, July 24th, and […]
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 […]
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 […]
Directed by Janus Metz, based on an idea by Kasper Torsting Produced by Ronnie Fridthjof & Sara Stockmann Released by Lorber Films Danish with English subtitles Denmark. 100 min. Not Rated Once upon a time we could easily separate ourselves from soldiers of war. What they were doing, the acts they committed in the name […]
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 […]
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 […]