Written and Directed by Haifaa Al Mansour Produced by Razor Film, Roman Paul & Gerhard Meixner Released by Sony Pictures Classics Arabic with English subtitles Saudi Arabia/Germany. 97 min. Rated PG With Reem Abdullah, Waad Mohammed, Abdullrahman Al Gohani, Sultan Al Assaf & Ahd Wadjda charmingly promotes a quiet revolution in Saudi Arabia through the […]
Written & Directed by Jonathan Holiff Produced by Holiff, Tanya Lyn Nazarec & Jennifer Phillips Released by New Chapter Productions Canada. 88 min. Not Rated My Father and the Man in Black settles two scores. One is the personal odyssey of a son, debut documentary director Jonathan Holiff, finally reconciling with the memory of his […]
Edited, Written & Directed by Joe Swanberg Produced by Paul Bernon, Sam Slater, Andrea Roa, Swanberg & Alicia Van Couvering Released by Magnolia Pictures USA. 90 min. Rated R With Olivia Wilde, Jake Johnson, Anna Kendrick & Ron Livingston Joe Swanberg, besides being one of the most prominent directors of the micro-budgeted independent films known […]
Directed by Ulrich SeidlProduced by Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion Written by Veronika Franz & Ulrich Seidl Released by Strand Releasing German & Arabic with English subtitles Austria/France,/Germany, 113 min. Not rated With Maria Hofstätten & Nabil Saleh Ulrich Seidl’s “Paradise Trilogy” was originally conceived as a single film of interwoven stories following three female family […]
Written & Directed by Noah Buschel Produced by Savantha Housman & Louise Runge Released by Tribeca Film USA. 81 min. Not rated With Marin Ireland & Paul Sparks Sparrows Dance may be the sweetest and simplest film I’ve seen in years. Taking place almost entirely in one small New York City apartment, the film follows […]
Directed by Gilles Legrand Produced by Legrand & Frédéric Brillon Written by Legrand & Delphine de Vigan Released by Cohen Media Group France. 101 min. Rated R With Niels Arestrup, Loránt Deutsch, Patrick Chesnais, Nicolas Bridet, Anne Marivin & Valérie Mairesse You Will Be My Son isn’t just a dramatic vacation to the wine country […]
Directed by Atiq Rahimi Produced by Michael Gentile Written by Rahimi & Jean-Claude Carriére, based on Rahimi’s novel Released by Sony Pictures Classics Farsi with English subtitles Afghanistan/France/Germany/UK. 102 min. Rated R With Golshifteh Farahani, Hamidrez Javdan, Hassina Burgan & Massi Mrowat The Patience Stone is as specific as it is mythic. Set in an […]
Written & Directed by Lake Bell Produced by Bell & Jett Steiger Released by Roadside Attractions USA. 93 min. Rated R With Lake Bell, Fred Melamed, Demetri Martin, Michaela Watkins, Ken Marino, Rob Corddry, Nick Offerman, Tig Notaro, Alexandra Holden & Eva Longoria In A World… poses a very intriguing concept. On the peripheries of […]
Directed by Havana Marking Produced by Mike Lerner Released by Doppelgänger Releasing UK. 90 min. Not rated Wow. Talk about free publicity. The July 28th robbery of an estimated $137 million worth of jewelry on the French Riviera (at the Carlton International hotel, coincidentally a location in Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief) occurred just days […]