Written & Directed by Eran Creevy Produced by Rory Aitken & Ben Pugh Released by IFC Films UK. 99 min. Not rated With James McAvoy, Mark Strong, Andrea Riseborough, Peter Mullan, David Morrissey, Jason Flemyng & Ruth Sheen Welcome to the Punch is British director Eran Creevy’s follow up to his award-winning debut Shifty (2008), about […]
Directed by Ken Scott Produced by André Rouleau Written by Scott & Martin Petit Released by Entertainment One French with English subtitles. Canada. 109 min. Rated R With Patrick Huard, Julie Le Breton, Antoine Bertrand, Dominic Philie, Marc Bél Anger & Igor Ovadis The high concept for Starbuck sounds like a wild news story or […]
Directed by Marc Evans Produced by Jon Finn and Dan Lupovitz Written by Laurence Coriat Released by Variance Films. UK. 109 min. Not rated With Minnie Driver, Haydn Gwynne, Bob Pugh, Owen Teale, Steve Speirs, Danielle Branch, Tom Harries, Darren Evans & Aneurin Barnard It’s 1976, and Vivienne (Minnie Driver) has dropped acting and returned […]
Directed by Sally El Hosaini Produced by Gayle Griffiths, Julia Godzinskaya & Michael Sackler Written by El Hosaini & Aymen Hamdouchi Released by Paladin UK. 111 min. Not Rated With James Floyd, Fady Elsayed & Saïd Taghmaoui At the 2012 BFI London Film Festival, My Brother the Devil scooped Best British Newcomer Award for Welsh-Egyptian […]
Directed by Michel Gondry Produced by Gondry, Julie Fong, Raffi Adlan & Georges Bermann Written by Gondry, Jeffrey Grimshaw & Paul Proch Released by Paladin/108 Media UK/USA/France. 103 min. Not rated With Michael Brodie, Teresa Lynn, Laidychen Carrasco, Raymond Delgado, Jonathan Ortiz, Jonathan Worrell, Alex Barrios, Meghan “Niomi” Murphy, Raymond Rios, Brandon Diaz, Manuel Rivera, […]
Directed by Matteo Garrone Produced by Domenico Procacci & Garrone Written by Maurizio Braucci, Ugo Chiti, Garrone & Massimo Gaudioso, based on a story by Garrone & Gaudioso Released by Oscilloscope Laboratories Italian, with English subtitles Italy/France. 115 min. Not rated With Aniello Arena, Loredana Simioli, Nando Paone, Graziella Marina, Nello Iorio, Raffaele Ferrante & […]
As usual, the mid-winter Film Society of Lincoln Center mini-fest is strong in variety—an animated film here, a biopic there, some audience pleasing and others inscrutable—but it doesn’t necessarily represent the best of what France has to offer. Conspicuously missing in the lineup are the latest from star sourpuss Jean-Pierre Bacri in the droll rom-com […]
Written & Directed by Kim Nguyen Produced by Pierre Even, Marie-Claude Poulin & Item 7 Released by Tribeca Film Canada. 90 min. Not rated French & Lingala with English subtitles With Rachel Mwanza, Serge Kanyinda, Alain Bastien, Mizinga Mwinga & Ralph Prosper Imagine a devastated world where starving children are brutally pitted against each other […]
Directed by Wang Xiaoshuai Produced by Xiaoshuai, Isabelle Glachant, Didar Domehri, Lü Dong, Laurent Baudens & Gaël Nouaille Written by Xiaoshuai & Lao Ni Released by First Run Features Shanghainese & Mandarin with English subtitles China/France. 115 min. Not rated With Liu Wenqing, Wang Jingchun & Yan Ni Director Wang Xiaoshuai’s autobiographical 11 Flowers turns […]