Written & Directed by Tanner King Barklow & Gil Kofman Produced by Francis Krow Released by Seventh Art Releasing/Antidote Films USA/China. 90 min. Not rated Unmade in China tells a story that is both entertaining and unsurprising, tracking the trials and tribulations of Gil Kofman, an American director (The Memory Thief) trying to make a […]
Written & Directed by Ron Morales Produced by Rebecca Lundgren Released by Alamo Drafthouse Films Tagalog with English subtitles Philippines. 84 min. Not rated With Arnold Reyes, Menggie Corabarrubias, Dido de la Paz, Leon Miguel, Ella Guevara, Marife Necesito & Patricia Ona Gayond Marlon Villar (Arnold Reyes) is caught between the many responsibilities he has […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]