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Alps

Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos Written by Lanthimos & Efthimis Filippou Produced by Athina Rachel Tsangari & Lanthimos Released by Kino Lorber Greek & English with English subtitles Greece. 84 min. Not rated With Aggeliki Papoulia, Aris Servetalis, Johnny Vekris, Ariane Labed, Stavros Psillakis, Efthimis Filippou & Eftihia Stefanidou Alps, the third feature by Greek filmmaker […]

Chicken With Plums

Written & Directed by Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud, based on the graphic novel by Satrapi Produced by Hengameh Panahi Released by Sony Pictures Classics. French, with English subtitles. France/Germany/Belgium. 91 min. Rated PG-13 With Mathieu Amalric, Edouard Baer, Maria de Medeiros, Golshifteh Farahani, Eric Caravaca, Chiara Mastroianni, Mathis Bour, Serge Avédikian, Jamel Debbouze & […]

Painted Skin: The Resurrection

Directed by Wuershan Produced by Chen KuoFu Screenplay by Ran Ping, Ran JiaNan Produced by Yang HongTao, Wang Ruojun, Wang ZhongJun, Guo L Released by Well Go USA Mandarin with English subtitles China. 133 min. Not rated With Xun Zhou, Kun Chen, Wei Zhao & Mini Yang Wuershan’s Painted Skin: The Resurrection, a loose sequel […]

The Matchmaker

Written & Directed by Avi Nesher, inspired by Amir Gutfreund’s novel When Heroes Fly Produced by Moshe Edery, Leon Edery, David Silber, Avraham Pirchi, David Silber, Chilik Michaeli, Nesher, Tami Leon & Natan Caspi Released by Menemsha Films Israel. 112 min. Not Rated Hebrew with English subtitles With Adir Miller, Maya Dagan, Dror Keren, Dov […]

The Deep Blue Sea

Adapted & Directed by Terence Davies, based on the play by Terence Rattigan Produced by Sean O’Connor & Kate Ogborn Released by Music Box Films. USA/UK. 98 min. Rated R With Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston, Simon Russell Beale & Barbara Jefford In the midst of the London Summer Olympics, viewers are inundated with images of […]

360

Directed by Fernando Meirelles Produced by Andrew Eaton, David Linde, Emanuel Michael, Danny Krausz, Chris Hanley, Marc Missonnier & Olivier Delbosc Written by Peter Morgan Released by Magnolia Pictures U.K./Austria/France/Brazil. 111 min. Rated R With Marianne-Jean Baptiste, Jamel Debbouze, Dinara Drukarova, Maria Flor, Ben Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Jude Law, Lucia Siposova & Time it’s pores […]

Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai

Directed by Takashi Miike Produced by Toshiaki Nakazawa & Jeremy Thomas Written by Kikumi Yamagishi, based on a story by Yasuhiko Takiguchi, “Ibun Ronin Ki” Released by Tribeca Film Japanese with English subtitles Japan/UK. 126 min. Not rated With Ebizo Ichikawa, Eita, Hikari Mitsushima, Naoto Takenaka & Munetaka Aoki I try not to be as […]

The Well-Digger’s Daughter

Written & Directed by Daniel Auteuil, based on the work by Marcel Pagnol Produced by Alain Sarde & Jerome Seydoux Released by Kino Lorber French with English subtitles France. 110 min. Not rated With Daniel Auteuil, Kad Merad, Sabine Azéma, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Nicolas Duvauchelle & Astrid Bergès-Frisbey In the world of French playwright-director-screenwriter Marcel Pagnol, […]

Attenberg

Written & Directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari Produced by Maria Hatzakou, Yorgos Lanthimos, Iraklis Mavroidis, Tsangari & Angelos Venetis Released by Strand Releasing Greek with English subtitles Greece. 95 min. Not rated With Ariane Labed, Vangelis Mourikis, Evangelia Randou & Yorgos Lanthimos The official selection from Greece for this year’s foreign language film Academy Award, […]