Written & Directed by Michael Winterbottom, based on Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy Produced by Winterbottom & Melissa Parmenter Released by Sundance Selects English & Hindi with English subtitles UK. 118 min. Rated R With Freida Pinto, Riz Ahmed & Roshan Seth Not wasting any time, Michael Winterbottom hurls Thomas Hardy’s 1891 novel […]
Directed by Philippe Garrel Written by Garrel, Marc Cholodenko & Caroline Deruas-Garrel Produced by Edouard Weil, Conchita Airoldi, Giorgio Magliulo & Pierre-Alain Meier Released by Sundance Selects French with English subtitles France. 95 min. Not rated With Monica Bellucci, Louis Garrel, Céline Sallette, Jérôme Robart, Vladislav Galard, Vincent Macaigne & Maurice Garrel A Burning Hot […]
Written & Directed by Martin Donovan Produced by Luca Matrundola Released by Tribeca Film (and video-on-demand) USA/Canada. 87 min. Not rated With Martin Donovan, David Morse, Olivia Williams, Eileen Ryan & Katherine Helmond Actor Martin Donovan, a familiar face in American independent film since starring in Hal Hartley films in the early 1990s, makes his […]
Directed by Benh Zeitlin Produced by Dan Janvey, Josh Penn & Michael Gottwald Written by Lucy Alibar & Zeitlin, based on the stage play Juicy and Delicious by Alibar; Released by Fox Searchlight Pictures USA. 93 min. Rated PG-13 With Quvenzhané Wallis & Dwight Henry Composer Dan Romer has said in an interview that when […]
Directed & Written by Kirby Dick Produced by Amy Ziering & Tanner King Barklow Released by Cinedigm Entertainment/Docurama Films USA. 97 min. Not rated The human resources difficulties in today’s stretched U.S. military have made headlines for years—untreated and mistreated posttraumatic stress, inadequate and unresponsive veterans’ services, and unbecoming conduct. The Invisible War documents how […]
Directed by Matthew Akers Produced by Jeff Dupre & Maro Chermayeff Released by HBO Documentary Films/Music Box Films. USA. 105 min. Not rated This celebratory and fascinating documentary tops off what have been two very good years for the Yugoslavian-born artist Martina Abramovic. Her 2010 blockbuster retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, “The […]
Directed by Julia Murat Produced by Taiga Films Written by Murat, Maria Clara Escobar & Felipe Sholl Released by Film Movement Portuguese with English subtitles Argentina/Brazil/France. 98 min. Not rated With Sonia Guedes, Lisa E. Fávero & Luiz Serra Although magic realism is famously known in Latin American literature through classic works by Jorge Luis […]
Directed by Joachim Trier Produced by Hans-Jorgen Osnes, Yngve Saether & Sigve Endressen Written by Eskil Vogt & Trier, adapted from the novel Le Feu Follet by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle Released by Strand Releasing Norwegian with English subtitles. Norway. 96 min. Not rated. With Anders Danielsen Lie, Malin Crépin, Aksel M. Thanke, Hans Olav […]
Directed by Léa Pool Produced by Ravida Din Written by Pool, Nancy Guerin & Patricia Kearns, based on Pink Ribbons, Inc.: Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy by Samantha King Released by First Run Features Canada. 98 min. Not rated Pink Ribbons, Inc. is a timely warning about the political message behind the philanthropic-corporate […]