Written & Directed by Takeshi Kitano Produced by Masayuki Mori & Takio Yoshida Released by Magnet Releasing Japanese with English subtitles Japan. 109 min. Rated R With Beat Takeshi, Kippei Shiina, Ryo Kase, Tomokazu Miura, Jun Kunimura, Renji Ishibashi & Tetta Sugimoto The bleakly funny Japanese gangster drama Outrage came out in its home country […]
Directed by Steve McQueen Produced by Iain Canning & Emile Sherman Written by Steve McQueen & Abi Morgan Released by Fox Searchlight UK. 99 min. Rated NC-17 With Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale & Nicole Beharie Earnestly somber, Shame arrives with a lot of baggage, namely an envelope-pushing amount of sex and nudity. (The […]
Written & Directed by Michel Hazanavicius Produced by Thomas Langmann Released by the Weinstein Company France/USA. 100 min. Rated PG-13 With Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, James Cromwell, Penelope Ann Miller, Malcolm McDowell, Missi Pyle, Beth Grant & John Goodman Studded with easy-to-spot film references, the black-and-white silent film The Artist is the type of film that […]
Written & Directed by Bertrand Bonello Produced by Bonello & Kristina Larsen Released by Sundance Selects French with English subtitles France. 125 min. Not rated With Hafsia Herzi, Céline Sallette, Jasmine Trinca, Adèle Haenel, Noémie Lvovsky, Alice Barnole & Iliana Zabeth Set in a brothel at the turn of the 20th century Paris, this methodical […]
The just-concluded Other Israel Film Festival showcased notable films by and about the 20 percent of Israeli citizens who are Arab (Christian, Muslim, Bedouin, and Druze) and other minorities, like migrant workers and immigrants. (Some of the films from previous editions, and other festival activities, are also streaming online on demand at OtherIsraelOnDemand.org.) Including U.S. […]
Written & Directed by Paddy Considine Produced by Diarmid Scrimshaw Released by Strand Releasing U.K. 91 min. Not Rated With Peter Mullan, Olivia Colman & Eddie Marsan Joseph (Peter Mullan) lumbers into the opening scenes like the drunken, violent, angry lout of so many working-class films from Great Britain and Ireland. Here in Yorkshire, the […]
Directed by Marius Holst Produced by Karin Julsrud, Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre, Ewa Puszczynska, Mathilde Dedye & Johannes Ahlund Written by Dennis Magnusson Released by Film Movement Norwegian with English subtitles Norway/France/Sweden/Poland. 115 min. Not rated With Stellan Skarsgard, Benjamin Helstad, Kirstoffer Joner, Trond Nilssen, Ellen Dorrit Petersen & Magnus Langlete There is no way that […]
Written & Directed by Céline Sciamma Produced by Bénédicte Couvreur Released by Rocket Releasing French with English subtitles France. 82 min. Not rated With Zoé Heran, Malonn Lévana, Jeanne Disson, Sophie Cattani & Mathieu Demy When a kid moves to a new town, the past can be left behind for a fresh start. In Tomboy, […]
Written & Directed by Lars von Trier Produced by Meta Louise Foldager & Louise Vesth Released by Magnolia Pictures Denmark/Sweden/France/Germany. 135 min. Not rated With Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alexander Skarsgard, Brady Corbet, Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt, Stellan Skarsgard, Udo Kier & Kiefer Sutherland Sometimes you can’t quite tell if what you’re feeling is agony […]