Perhaps the two main stories that emerged from this year’s Cannes Film Festival were the jewelry heists (who knew Brian De Palma’s Femme Fatale was so prescient?) and the praise and immediate backlash heaped on the Palm d’Or winner Blue Is the Warmest Color, namely Elaine Sciolino’s piece in the New York Times in which […]
Directed by Michael Winterbottom Produced by Melissa Parmenter Written by Matt Greenhalgh Released by IFC Films UK/USA. 107 min. Not rated (definitely would be rated R) With Steve Coogan, Imogen Poots, Anna Friel, Tamsin Egerton & Chris Addison After an eclectic career that covers art house, neo-noir, docudrama, and comedy, prolific director Michael Winterbottom brings […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]