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 […]
Written & Directed by Kenji Fukasaku, based on the novel by Koushun Takami Produced by Fukasaku, Kenta Fukasaku, Kimio Kataoka, Chie Kobayashi, Toshio Nabeshima & Masumi Okada Released by Anchor Bay Japan. 114 min. Not rated With Takeshi Kitano, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Chiaki Kuriyama, Taro Yamamoto & Sosuke Takaoka Finally on the big screen, Kenji […]
Director by Yoichi Sai Producer by Nozomu Enoki, Ichiro Yamamoto Written by: Shoichi Maruyama & Yoshihiro Nakamura, based on the novel Modoken Quill No Issho by Ryohei Akimoto Released by Music Box Films Japanese with English subtitles Japan. 100 min. Not Rated (it should be rated G) With Kaoru Kobayashi, Kippei Shiina, Teruyuki Kagawa, Keiko […]
Directed by Andrei Zvyagintsev Produced by Alexander Rodnyansky & Sergey Melkumov Written by Oleg Negin & Zvyagintsev Released by Zeitgeist Films Russian with English subtitles. Russia. 109 min. Not rated With Nadezhda Markina, Andrei Smirnov, Yelena Lyadova, Alexey Rozin, Evgenia Konushkina & Igor Ogurtsov Sometimes a festival jury gets it right, recognizing an unknown filmmaker […]