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 […]
Directed by David Cronenberg Produced by Jeremy Thomas Written by Christopher Hampton, based on his play The Talking Cure, and the book A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein by John Kerr Released by Sony Pictures Classics UK/Germany/Canada/Switzerland. 99 min. Rated R With Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender, Sarah […]
Directed by Simon Curtis Produced by David Parfitt & Harvey Weinstein Written by Adrian Hodges,based on the diaries by Colin Clark, The Prince, the Showgirl, and Me and My Week with Marilyn Released by the Weinstein Company USA/UK. 101 min. Rated R With Michelle Williams, Eddie Remayne, Kenneth Branagh, Julia Ormond, Dominic Cooper, Emma Watson, […]
Don’t panic if you couldn’t make it the recent New York Film Festival. Most of the films screened have an American distributor lined up and will open in the upcoming months, like the acclaimed A Separation and The Kid on the Bike. The claustrophobic cacophony Carnage, which opened the event, will be released on December […]
Written, Produced & Directed by Aki Kaurismaki Released by Janus Films French with English subtitles Finland/France/Germany. 93 min. Not rated With André Wilms, Kati Outinen, Jean-Pierre Darroussin & Blondin Miguel Aki Kaurismaki does a remarkable job as a formalist here. His new film takes place in the French port town of Le Havre in what […]
Written & Directed by Sean Durkin Produced by Josh Mond, Antonio Campos, Chris Maybach & Patrick Cunningham Released by Fox Searchlight USA. 101 min. Rated R With Elizabeth Olsen, Brady Corbet, Hugh Dancy, John Hawkes & Sarah Paulson A creepy Luddite zealot, Patrick (John Hawkes), leads a small rural community in upstate New York. His […]
Directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce SinofskyProduced by BerlingerReleased by HBO Documentary FilmsUSA. 121 min. Not rated For over 18 years, directors Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky inspired diligent and dedicated support to get three teenagers convicted of the horrible 1993 murders of three eight-year-old boys in West Memphis, Arkansas, out of jail, including one […]
For the last three years, the New York Film Festival has showcased international television mini-series that not only have creative and production values worthy of the big screen, but are not yet available on American television, even though media boundaries these days are so permeable. Dreileben will particularly appeal to fans of dark mysteries for […]
The New York Film Festival has gone back to a basic rule: you gotta have a splashy opening night. For programmers, more thought is often put into the selection of this event than any other selection—it sets the tone and defines what the program represents. The status of last year’s opener, the edgy, big-budget The […]