Produced & Directed by Lionel Rogosin Written by Lionel Rogosin with Lewis Nkosi & William “Bloke” Modisane Released by Milestone Films In English, Afrikaans & Zulu with English subtitles South Africa/USA. 86 min. Not rated Restored in 2005 by the Cineteca di Bologna and the laboratory L’Imagine Ritrovata with the collaboration of Rogosin Heritage and […]
Edited & Directed by Gerardo Naranjo Written by Naranjo & Mauricio Katz Produced by Pablo Cruz Released by Fox International Productions Spanish, with English subtitles Mexico. 113 min. Rated R With Stephanie Sigman, Noe Hernández & Lakshmi Picazo Is nothing sacred? In Gerardo Naranjo’s Mexico of Miss Bala, the answer is a blunt no. Drug […]
Directed by Chad Freidrichs Produced by Chad Freidrichs, Jaime Freidrichs, Paul Fehler & Brian Woodman Written by Chad & Jaime Freidrichs Released by First Run Features USA. 83min. Not Rated The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: An Urban History begins with a shocking image. Not the dramatic, notorious television footage of the 1972 implosion of an 11-story building […]
Direction, Sound & Editing by Frederick Wiseman Produced by Pierre Olivier Bardet & Wiseman Relealsed by Zipporah Films English & French with English subtitles USA/France. 134 min. Not rated The subjects of Crazy Horse are drop-dead gorgeous, and have their nude bodies caressed by the camera for much of the 134-minute running time. But since […]
Written & Directed by Dee Rees Produced by Nekisa Cooper Released by Focus Features USA. 86 min. Rated R With Adepero Oduye, Pernell Walker, Aasha Davis, Charles Parnell, Sahra Mellesse, Kim Wayans & Shamika Cotton Every year another indie could be the last one ever shot on film. But 35mm keeps hanging on, and beautifully […]
Written, Produced & Directed by Asghar Farhadi Released by Sony Pictures Classics Iran. 123 min. Rated PG-13 Farsi with English subtitles With Leila Hatami, Peyman Moadi, Sarina Farhadi, Ali-Asghar Shahbazi, Sareh Bayat, & Shahab Hosseini A Separation opens with a marriage in crisis. Testifying testily, the wife explains to a judge that she wants to […]
Go for broke—that could be the motto for many of this year’s noteworthy films. Terrence Malick created the world out of the Big Bang, all set to a pseudo-Wagnerian score, in The Tree of Life. Even Werner Herzog ventured back thousands of years to ponder life during the Ice Age—and in 3D, a format that […]
Directed by Rodrigo García Produced by Glenn Close, Bonnie Curtis, Julie Lynn & Alan Maloney Written by Glenn Close, John Banville & Gabriella Prekop, based on a short story by George Moore Released by Liddell Entertainment/Roadside Attractions UK/Ireland. 113 min. Rated R Starring: Glenn Close, Brendan Gleeson, Mia Wasikowska, Aaron Johnson & Janet McTeer Albert […]
Directed by David Fincher Produced by Scott Rudin, Ole Sondberg, Soren Stærmose & Ceán Chaffin Written by Steven Zaillian, based on the novel by Stieg Larsson Released by Columbia Pictures/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures USA/Sweden/UK/Germany. 158 min. Rated R With: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer, Stellan Skarsgard, Steven Berkoff, Robin Wright, Yorick van Wageningen, Geraldine James, Joely […]