Written, Produced and Directed by Aarón Fernández Released by Strand Releasing Spanish with English subtitles Spain/France/Mexico. 100 min. Not rated With Kristyan Ferrer and Adriana Paz From Y Tu Mama También to the more recent It Felt Like Love, the beach has been fertile ground for tales of sexual discovery and youthful awakenings. Although Mexican […]
Directed by Lenny Abrahamson Produced by Ed Guiney, David Barron and Stevie Lee Written by Jon Ronson and Peter Straughan, based on a newspaper article by Ronson Released by Magnolia Pictures UK/Ireland. 98 min. Rated R With Domhnall Gleeson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Scoot McNairy, Michael Fassbender, Carla Azar and François Civil A common lack of awareness […]
Written and Directed by John Michael McDonagh Produced by Chris Clark, Flora Fernandez Marengo and James Flynn Released by Fox Searchlight Pictures Ireland/UK. 104 Min. Rated R With Brendan Gleeson, Chris O’Dowd, Kelly Reilly, Aidan Gillen, Dylan Moran, Isaach De Bankolé, M. Emmet Walsh, Marie-Josée Croze, Domhnall Gleeson, David Wilmot, Mícheál Óg Lane, Killian Scott, […]
Directed by Shosh Shlam and Hilla Medalia Produced by Medalia, Shlam and Neta Zwebner-Zaibert Released by Kino Lorber Films Mandarin with English subtitles USA/Israel. 79 min. Not rated On its own, the Internet can be a scary place. Compounded with addiction, there’s no telling how deeply the rabbit hole might take us. The documentary Web Junkie […]
Written and Directed by Philippe Le Guay, based on an original idea by Fabrice Luchini and Le Guay Produced by Anne-Dominique Toussaint Released by Strand Releasing. French with English subtitles France. 104 min. Not rated With Fabrice Luchini, Lambert Wilson, Maya Sansa, and Laurie Bordesoules I have had only a little experience with the plays […]
In the awards competition at the Cannes Film Festival, two films rejuvenated the often clunky genre of the biopic. Mike Leigh, whose films have won many honors here, offered something of a departure from his previous output. Mr. Turner, appropriately his most picturesque film yet, explores the later years of pre-Impressionistic, pre-rebel chic painter J.M.W. […]
Directed by Martin Lund Released by Big World Pictures Norwegian, with English subtitles Norway. 75 min. Not rated If Alexander Payne ever decided to make a Judd Apatow film, it would look somewhat like The Almost Man. Henrik, played by Henrik Rafaelson, is a 35-year-old man-child (with an uncanny resemblance to Jason Segel) who starts […]
Written and Directed by Claudia Sainte-Luce Produced by Geminiano Pineda Released by Strand Releasing Spanish with English subtitles Mexico. 95 min. Not Rated With Ximena Ayala, Lisa Owen, Sonia Franco, Wendy Guillén, Andrea Baeza and Alejandro Ramírez Mu?oz The Amazing Catfish is the semi-autobiographical debut feature of Mexican director Claudia Sainte-Luce. In her early thirties, […]
Directed by Manuel Martin Cuenca Produced by Fernando Bovaira, Simon de Santiago, Manuel Martin Cuenca, Alejandro Hernandez Written by Cuenca, Alejandro Hernandez, based on a novel by Humberto Arenal Released by Film Movement/RAM Releasing Spain/Romania/Russia/France. 116 min. Not rated With Antonio de la Torre, Olimpia Melinte, and Alfonsa Rosso The Spanish film Cannibal is a […]