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Tai Chi Hero

Directed by Stephen Fung Produced by Wang Zhongjun Written by Kuo-fu Chen Released by Well Go USA Release Mandarin with English subtitles China. 100 min. Not rated With Jayden Yuan, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Angelababy, Eddie Peng Yu-Yen, Feng Shaofeng, Peter Stormare & Daniel Wu You might recall a little crazy movie called Tai Chi […]

Trance

Directed by Danny Boyle Produced by Christian Colson; Written by Joe Ahearne & John Hodge Released by Fox Searchlight Pictures UK. 101 min. Rated R With James McAvoy, Vincent Cassel, Rosario Dawson, Danny Sapani, Matt Cross & Wahab Sheikh Since he broke through with the black comedy Shallow Grave (1994) and with his follow up […]

Paradise: Love

Produced & Directed by Ulrich Seidl Written by Seidl & Veronika Franz Released by Strand Releasing German with English subtitles Austria/Germany/France. 120 min. Not rated With Margarethe Tiesel, Peter Kazungu, Inge Maux, Dunja Sowinetz, Helen Brugat, Gabriel Mwarua, Josphat Hamisi & Carlos Mkutano After a successful career making documentaries, Austrian director Ulrich Seidl interwove six […]

In the House

Written & Directed by François Ozon, adapted from the play, The Boy in the Last Row, by Juan Mayorga Produced by Eric & Nicolas Altmayer Released by Cohen Media Group French with English subtitles. France. 105 min. Rated R With Fabrice Luchini, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner, Denis Ménochet, Ernst Umhauer & Bastien Ughetto Following […]

Violeta Went to Heaven

Directed by Andrés Wood Written by Eliseo Altunaga, Rodrigo Bazaes, Guillermo Calderón & Wood Released by Kino Lorber Spanish with English subtitles Argentina/Brazil/Chile. 110 min. Not rated With Francisca Gavilán, Cristian Quevedo, Thomas Durand & Gabriela Aguilera The woman of the title is Violeta Parra (1917-1967), an icon of Chilean folk music and art. Her […]

The Angels’ Share

Directed by Ken Loach Produced by Rebecca O’Brien Written by Paul Laverty Released by Sundance Selects UK.  101 min.  Not rated With Paul Brannigan, John Henshaw, Roger Allam, Gary Maitland, Jasmin Riggins, William Ruane & Siobhan Reilly The Angel’s Share reunites Ken Loach with his longtime collaborator, Scottish screenwriter Paul Laverty, for their 10th film, […]

Ginger & Rosa

Written & Directed by Sally Potter Produced by Christopher Sheppard & Andrew Litvin Released by A24 UK. 90 min. Rated PG-13 With Elle Fanning, Alice Englert, Alessandro Nivola, Christina Hendricks, Timothy Spall, Oliver Platt, Jodhi May & Annette Bening Director Sally Potter was about my age during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, and our parents […]

Renoir

Directed by Gilles Bourdos Produced by Olivier Delbosc & Marc Missonnier Written by Jérôme Tonnerre & Bourdos, with the contribution of Michel Spinosa, based on the book Le Tableau Amoureux by Jacques Renoir Released by Samuel Goldwyn Films France. 111 min. Rated R French with English subtitles With Michel Bouquet, Vincent Rottiers, Christa Théret, Thomas […]

Blancanieves

Written & Directed by Pablo Berger Produced by Ibon Cormenzana, Jérôme Vidal & Berger Released by Cohen Media Group Spanish with English subtitles Spain. 104 min. Rated PG-13 With Macarena García, Maribel Verdú, Sofía Oria & Ángela Molina Director Pablo Berger’s Blancanieves is a Spanish Snow White that’s more The Artist than Mirror Mirror. It’s […]