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Byzantium

Directed by Neil Jordan Written by Moira Buffini, based on her play A Vampire Story Produced by Stephen Woolley, Alan Moloney, Elizabeth Karlsen, William D. Johnson & Samuel Englebardt Released by IFC Films UK/USA/Ireland. 118 min. Rated R With Gemma Arterton, Saoirse Ronan, Sam Riley, Jonny Lee Miller, Daniel Mays & Caleb Landry Jones Eleanor […]

Museum Hours

Written & Directed by Jem Cohen Produced by Paolo Calamita, Cohen & Gabriele Kranzelbinder Released by Cinema Guild English & German with English subtitles. Austria/USA. 106 min. Not rated With Bobby Sommer & Mary Margaret O’Hara What a curious job to be a museum guard, watching people watching art, and what a curious movie to […]

Aliyah

Directed by Elie Wajeman Produced by Lola Gans Written by Gaëlle Macé & Wajeman Released by Film Movement French & Hebrew with English subtitles France. 90 min. Not rated With Pio Marmaï, Adèle Haenel, Cédric Kahn, Guillaume Gouix & Sarah Le Picard Gritty Aliyah plays ironically on the meaning of the Hebrew word for “to […]

A Hijacking

Written & Directed by Tobias Lindholm Produced by Tomas Radoor & René Ezra Released by Magnolia Pictures English, Somali & Danish with English subtitles Denmark. 99 min. Not rated With Pilou Asbaek, Soren Malling, Dar Salim, Roland Moller, Gary Skjoldmose Porter & Abdihakin Asgar Tobias Lindholm’s tense, compelling drama A Hijacking is often as stark […]

Three Worlds

Directed by Catherine Corsini Produced by Fabienne Vonier Written by Corsini & Benoît Graffin Released by Film Movement French & Moldovan with English subtitles France. 101 min. Not rated With Raphaël Personnaz, Clotilde Hesme, Arta Dobroshi, Reda Ketab, Alban Aumard & Adèle Haenel As you might expect from the rather portentous title, Three Worlds is […]

The Guillotines

Directed by Andrew Lau Produced by Peter Ho-Sun Chan & Jojo Hui Yuet-chun Written by Aubrey Lam & Joyce Chan; Released by Well Go USA Mandarin with English subtitles. China/Hong Kong. 113. Rated R With Huang Xiaoming, Ethan Juan, Shawn Yue & Li Yuchun The latest film from director Andrew Lau (Infernal Affairs) kicks off […]

Berberian Sound Studio

Written & Directed by Peter Strickland Produced by Keith Griffiths, Mary Burke Released by IFC Films UK.  92 min. Not rated With Toby Jones, Cosimo Fusco, Antonio Mancino & Tonia Sotiropoulou Peter Strickland’s second feature is an inventive homage to the art of analogue sound and the power of the medium. Sometime in the 1970s, […]

Shadow Dancer

Directed by James Marsh Produced by Chris Coen, Andrew Lowe & Ed Guiney Written by Tom Bradby, based on his novel Released by Magnolia Pictures UK/Ireland/France. 100 min. Rated R With Andrea Riseborough, Clive Owen, Gillian Anderson, Aiden Gillen, Domhnall Gleeson, David Wilmot, Martin McCann & Bríd Brennan Terrorism, sectarian loyalties, die-hard fanatics, civilian casualties, […]

Pieta

Written & Directed by Kim Ki-duk Produced by Kim Soon-mo Released by Drafthouse Films Korean with English subtitles South Korea. 104 min. Not rated With Cho Min-soo & Lee Jung-jin Over the course of a 17-year career, in which he has made 18 films, Korean auteur Kim Ki-duk has often shocked and divided audiences with […]