Written and Directed by Pablo Fendrik Released by Participant Media Spanish with English subtitles Argentina/Mexico/Brazil/France/USA. 100 min. Not rated With Gael Garcia Bernal, Alice Braga, and Claudio Tolcachir In the beginning, an intertitle explains that residents of the northern Argentine rainforest beseech river spirits to aid them when they feel threaten. Thus, early on, Gael […]
Directed by Bill Condon Produced by Anne Carey, Iain Canning and Emile Sherman Written by Jeffrey Hatcher Released by Roadside Attractions/Miramax UK/USA. 104 min. Rated PG With Ian McKellen, Laura Linney, Milo Parker, Hiroyuki Sanada, Hattie Morahan, Patrick Kennedy, and Nicholas Rowe Sherlock Holmes has been adapted countless times on stage and screen since his […]
Directed by Carlos Marques-Marcet Produced by Tono Folguera, Jana Díaz Juhl and Sergi Moreno Written by Clara Roquet and Mr. Marques-Marcet Released by Broadgreen Pictures Spanish with English subtitles Spain. 99 min. Rated R With Natalia Tena and David Verdaguer In the first scene of the two-hander 10,000 km, Alex (Natalia Tena of Games of […]
We’re right in the thick of summer, and usually what that means, as far as movies go, is Hollywood throwing billions of dollars at us in bombastic Dolby surround sound, 3-D, and outsized spectacle at the multiplexes. But here in New York, if you’re willing to look beyond the realm of dinosaurs, revived Terminators, and […]
Directed by Eran Riklis Produced by Bettina Brokemper, Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre, Michael Eckelt, Chilik Michaeli Written by Sayed Kashua, based on his novels Dancing Arabs, Let It Be Morning and Second Person Singular Released by Strand Releasing Israel. 104 min. Not rated In Hebrew and Arabic with English subtitles With Tawfeek Barhom, Ali Suliman, Yaël […]
Directed by Mia Hansen-Love Produced by Charles Gillibert Written by Hansen-Love and Sven Hansen-Love Music by Daft Punk, Joe Smooth, Frankie Knuckles, Terry Hunter, and MK Released by Broad Green Pictures English and French with English subtitles France. 131 min. Not rated With Félix de Givry, Pauline Etienne, Vincent Macaigne, Hugo Conzelmann, Arsinée Khanjian, and […]
Written and Directed by Roy Andersson Produced by Pernilla Sandstrom Released by Magnolia Pictures Swedish with English subtitles. Sweden, Norway, France, Germany. 100 min. Not rated With Holger Andersson, Nils Westblom, Charlotta Larsson, Viktor Gyllenberg, Lotti Tornros, and Jonas Gerholm “Hahahaha!” That’s the sound of a loathsome toy called “bag in laughs,” a periodic sinister […]
Directed by André Téchiné Written by Téchiné, Jean-Charles Le Roux, and Cédric Anger Produced by Olivier Delbosc and Marc Missonnier Released by Cohen Media Group French with English subtitles France. 116 min. Rated R With Catherine Deneuve, Guillaume Canet, and Adèle Haenel A mild-mannered lawyer attaches himself to a wealthy casino matriarch. He wins the […]
Written and Directed by John Maclean Produced by Rachel Gardner, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, and Conor McCaughan Released by A24 UK/New Zealand. 91 min. Rated R With Kodi Smit-McPhee, Michael Fassbender, Ben Mendelsohn, Caren Pistorius, and Rory McCann The feature debut of former Beta Band member John MacLean is an arty little Western that has […]