Directed by Dan Krauss Produced by Krauss and Linda Davis Written by Kruass, Lawrence Lerew and Davis Released by Oscilloscope Laboratories USA. 79 min. Not rated As a result of the violence they witness, soldiers often walk a fine line between morality and sanity, a demarcation that’s been well fictionalized in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of […]
Directed by Anton Corbijn Produced by Stephen Cornwell, Gail Egan, Malte Grunert, Simon Cornwell and Andrea Calderwood Written by Andrew Bovell, based on the novel by John le Carré Released by Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions UK/USA/Germany. 121 min. Rated R With Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Willem Dafoe, Robin Wright, Grigoriy Dobrygin, Nina Hoss, Daniel […]
Directed by Jonathan Demme Produced by Rocco Caruso, André Gregory, and Wallace Shawn Written by Shawn, based on Gregory’s production of Henrik Ibsen’s play Master Builder Solness Released by Abramorama USA. 127min. Not rated With Wallace Shawn, Lisa Joyce, Julie Hagerty, André Gregory, Jeff Biehl, Emily Cass McDonnell, and Larry Pine A Master Builder is […]
Written, Produced and Directed by Michael Rossato-Bennett Released by Bond 360 USA. 74 min. Not rated Just imagine the pitch: “It’s a documentary about geriatrics with advanced Alzheimer’s, many of whom have no family to visit them and are on the brink of death, listening to iPods for the first time.” No studio executive would […]
Written and Directed by Louise Archambault Produced by Luc Déry and Kim McCraw Released by Entertainment One Canada. 104 min. Rated R With Gabrielle Marion-Rivard, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Alexandre Landry, Vincent-Guillaume Otis, Benoit Gouin, Sébastian Ricard, Marie Gignac and Robert Charlebois Though there are many themes brought to the forefront in Gabrielle, the unique power of […]
Written and Directed by Richard Linklater Produced by Linklater, Cathleen Sutherland, Jonathan Sehring and John Sloss Released by IFC Films USA. 165 min. Rated R With Patricia Arquette, Ellar Coltrane, Lorelei Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Marco Perella, Jamie Howard and Andrew Villarreal Richard Linklater is one of a handful of American filmmakers who is completely fearless, […]
Directed by Jafar Panahi and Kambozia Partovi Edited, Written, and Produced by Panahi Released by Variance Films Farsi with English subtitles Iran. 106 min. Not Rated With Kambozia Partovi, Maryam Moghadam, Hadi Saeedi, and Panahi Closed Curtain starts out looking like an allegory in some future post-apocalyptic society. But the repression in Iran today emphatically […]
Directed by Martin Provost Produced by Miléna Poylo & Gilles Sacuto Written by Provost, Marc Abedelnour and René de Ceccatty Released by Adopt Films French with English subtitles France/Belgium. 138 min. Not rated With Emmanuelle Devos, Sandrine Kiberlain, Olivier Gourmet, Catherine Hiegel, Jacques Bonaffé, and Olivier Py Director Martin Provost calls Violette a diptych with […]
Directed by Agnieszka Holland Produced by Tomas Kruby and Pavla Kubeckova Written by Stepan Hulik Released by Kino Lorber Czech with English subtitles Czech Republic. 234 min. (Parts 1 & 2: 160 min, Part 3: 80 min.) Not rated With Tatiana Pauhofova, Ivan Trojan, Jaroslava Pokorna, Vojtech Kotek, Dagmar Buresova, Adrian Jastraban, Emma Smetana, Patrik […]