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 […]
Written & Directed by Ritesh Batra Produced by Guneet Monga, Anurag Kashyap & Arun Rangachari Released by Sony Picture Classics India. 104 min. Rated PG With Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur & Nawazuddin Siddiqui Writer/director Ritesh Batra’s debut feature, The Lunchbox, was originally conceived as a documentary about Mumbai’s Dabbawallahs —a community of 5000 dabba (lunchbox) […]
Directed by Juan Carlos Maneglia & Tana Schémbori Written by Maneglia Released by Breaking Glass Pictures Paraguay. 100 min. Not rated With Celso Franco, Victor Sosa, Lali González, Nico García, Paletita & Manuel Portillo 7 Boxes has been referred by Indiewire as “The Fast and the Furious with wheelbarrows.” I can’t say this is a […]
Written & Directed by Hayao Miyazaki, based on a graphic novel published in Monthly Model Graphix Produced by Toshio Suzuki Released by Studio Ghibli/Touchstone Pictures Japanese with English subtitles Japan. 126 min. Rated PG-13 Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki has announced his intention to retire more than once. So when, upon the premiere of this […]
Directed and Written by Hany Abu-Assad Produced by Abu-Assad, Waleed F. Zuaiter & David Gerson Released by Adopt Films Palestine. 98 min. Not Rated Arabic & Hebrew with English subtitles With Adam Bakri, Leem Lubany, Waleed F. Zuaiter, Samer Bisharat, & Eyad Hourani Omar spins a fresh take on thrillers and star-crossed romances set along […]
Directed by Calin Peter Netzer Produced by Netzer & Ada Solomon Written by Razvan Radulescu & Netzer Released by Zeitgeist Films Romania. 112 min. Not rated With Luminita Gheorghiu, Bogdan Dumitrache, Ilinca Goia, Natasa Raab, Florin Zamfirescu & Vlad Ivanov Following in the tradition of the Romanian New Wave, Child’s Pose is realistic in tone […]
Film Comment Selects, the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s self-described “essential and eclectic feast of cinephilia,” will run its 14th edition from February 17-27. Organized by the editors of Film Comment, the organization’s house magazine, this series once again offers filmgoers many different stripes, genres, and modes of expression, culled from festivals all over the […]
Claire Stewart’s second year at the London Film Festival helm set sail with the European premiere of Paul Greengrass’s Captain Philips and ended with the world premiere of John Lee Hancock’s Saving Mr. Banks, both beamed simultaneously by satellite to 30 towns and cities across the UK and Ireland. At the closing press conference, Tom […]
Directed by Babak Najafi Produced by Fredrik Wikstrom Nicastro Written by Maria Karlsson with Peter Birro, Najafi & Nicastro, based on books by Jens Lapidus Released by Cinedigm Swedish & Spanish with English subtitles Sweden. 100 min. Not rated With Joel Kinnaman, Matias Varela, Dragomir Mrsic, Fares Fares, Madeleine Martin, Dejan Cukic, Joel Spira & […]