Written & Directed by Taika Waititi Produced by Ainsley Gardiner, Cliff Curtis & Emanuel Michael Released by Paladin New Zealand. 90 min. Not Rated With James Rolleston, Te Aho Eketone-Whitu & Waititi Boy gives delightful new meaning to “It takes a whole village to raise a child” by nostalgically going back to an isolated community […]
Directed by Ola Simonsson & Johannes Stjarne Nilsson Produced by Jim Birmant, Guy Péchard, Christophe Audeguis & Olivier Guerpillon Written by Simonsson & Nilsson, story by Simonsson, Nilsson & Birmant Released by Magnolia Pictures Sweden/France. 102 min. Rated R Swedish with English subtitles With Bengt Nilsson, Sanna Persson Halapi, Magnus Borjeson, Johannes Bjork, Fredrik Myhr, […]
Directed by Jiang Wen Produced by Ma Ke, Albert Lee, Barbie Tung,Yin Homber Yin & Zhao Haicheng Written by Zhu Sujin, Shu Ping, Jiang Wen, Guo Junli, Wei Xiao & Li Bukong, based on novel Ye Tan Shi Ji by Ma Shitu Released by Well Go USA/Variance Films Mandarin with English subtitles China/Hong Kong. 132 […]
Directed by Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb Produced by Panahi Released by Palisades Tartan Iran. 75 min. Not Rated Farsi with English subtitles There have been movies heralding musicians, painters, photographers, and poets who persevered against oppression and restrictions, but this very unusual, deceptively simple documentary passionately reveals the essence of a filmmaker. This soulful […]
Directed by Danis Tanovic Produced by Cedomir Kolar, Amra Baksic Camo, Marc Bachet and Mirsad Purivatra Written by Tanovic & Ivica Dikic, based on Dikic’s novel Released by Strand Releasing Bosnian with English subtitles Bosnia and Herzegovina/France/UK/Germany/Solvenia/Belgium/Serbia. 113 min. Not rated With Miki Manojlovic, Mira Furlan, Boris Ler & Jovana Stupljanin Bosnian director Danis Tanovic […]
Directed by Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal & Tono Errando Produced by Cristina Huete, Santi Errando, Martin Pope & Martin Pope Written by Trueba & Ignacio Martínez de Pisón Released by GKIDS/LumaFilms Spain/UK. 94 min. Not Rated In English and Spanish with English subtitles With the voices of Limara Meneses, Emar Xor Oña, Mario Guerra, Bebo […]
Directed by Ben Wheatley Produced by Claire Jones & Andre Starke Written by Wheatley & Amy Jump Released by Magnolia Pictures UK. 95 min. Not Rated With Neil Maskell, Harry Simpson, MyAnna Buring, Michael Smiley, Emma Fryer & Struan Rodger British director Ben Wheatley’s heady genre mashup Kill List is how midnight movies are supposed […]
Directed by Agnieszka Holland Produced by Steffen Reuter, Patrick Knippel, Marc-Daniel Dichant, Leander Carell, Juliusz Machulski, Paul Stephens & Eric Jordan Written by David F. Shamoon, based on the book In The Sewers of Lvov: A Heroic Story of Survival from the Holocaust by Robert Marshall Released by Sony Pictures Classics Poland/Germany/France/Canada. 143 min. Rated […]
Directed by Bill Morrison Produced by Forma Written by Morrison, Johann Johannsson & David Metcalfe Released by Icarus Films USA/UK. 52 min. Not Rated With Hugo and The Artist reminding audiences of the impact, and neglect, of silent films, comes the timely work of an avant-garde artist who imaginatively re-purposes archival footage in collaborations with […]