Written & Directed by Kim Ki-duk Produced by Kim Soon-mo Released by Drafthouse Films Korean with English subtitles South Korea. 104 min. Not rated With Cho Min-soo & Lee Jung-jin Over the course of a 17-year career, in which he has made 18 films, Korean auteur Kim Ki-duk has often shocked and divided audiences with […]
Directed by Richard Linklater Written by Linklater, Ethan Hawke & Julie Delpy Produced by Linklater, Christos V. Konstantakopoulos & Sara Woodhatch Released by Sony Pictures Classics USA. 108 min. Rated R With Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Ariane Labed, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, Walter Lassally & Xenia Kalogeropoulou In Before Midnight, time has moved on […]
Written & Directed by Rama Burshtein Produced by Assaf Amir Released by Sony Pictures Classics Hebrew with English subtitles Israel. 90 min. Rated PG With Hadas Yaron, Hila Feldman, Irit Sheleg, Renana Raz, Razia Israeli & Yiftach Klein Fill the Void feels like a folk tale set in a rural village. These folk dress and […]
Directed by Margarethe von Trotta Produced by Bettina Brokemper & Johannes Rexin Written by Pamela Katz & von Trotta Released by Zeitgeist Films English & German with English subtitles Germany. 113 min. Not rated With Barbara Sukowa, Axel Milberg, Janet McTeer, Julia Jentsch, Ulrich Noethen, Klaus Pohl, Nicolas Woodeson & Michael Degen Hannah Arendt humanizes […]
Written & Directed by Joss Whedon, based on the play by Shakespeare Produced by Mr. Whedon & Kai Cole Released by Lionsgate/Roadside Attractions USA. 107 min. Rated PG- With Amy Acker, Alexis Denisof, Nathan Fillion, Fran Kranz, Jillian Morgese, Sean Maher, Reed Diamond, Clark Gregg & Tom Lenk With the recent conversations surrounding the merits […]
Music, Art Direction, Animation Direction, Edited, Written & Directed by Terence Nance Produced by James Bartlett, Andrew D. Corkin & Nance Released by Variance Films USA. 84 min. Not rated With Terence Nance & Namik Minter The tender opening credits appear as hand drawn overlays over a beautiful sequence shot in the tunnels of the […]
Produced & Directed by Beth Gage & George Gage Written by Beth Gage Released by First Run Features USA. 73 min. Not rated Listening to the passionate and eloquent message of Tim DeChristopher, I was reminded of the famous Unitarian minister William Ellery Channing. A transcendentalist, Channing preached about man’s innate goodness and his ability to […]
Directed by Noah Baumbach Written by Baumbach & Greta Gerwig Produced by Mr. Baumbach, Scott Rudin, Lila Yacoub & Rodrigo Teixeira Released by IFC Films. USA. 86 min. Rated R With Greta Gerwig, Mickey Sumner, Patrick Heusinger, Adam Driver, Michael Zegen & Grace Gummer Frances Ha is yet another story about a white 20-something woman […]
Written & Directed by Sarah Polley Produced by Anita Lee Released by Roadside Attractions Canada. 108 min. PG-13 So many fiction films open with the set-up of a faux biographer or documentarian sitting down with an old man and asking a question like: “Tell me the whole story of your marriage.” But in Stories We […]