Directed by Sean Baker Produced by Blake Ashman Kipervaser Written by Baker & Chris Bergoch Released by Music Box Films USA. 104 Min. Not rated With Dree Hemingway, Besedka Johnson, Stella Maeve, James Ransone & Karren Karagulian The fringe of Hollywood’s Walk of Fame attracts all kinds of get-rich-quick dreamers and schemers, now and in […]
Directed by Steven Spielberg Produced by Spielberg & Kathleen Kennedy Written by Tony Kushner, based on the book Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin Released by DreamWorks Pictures/20th Century Fox USA. 145 min. Rated PG-13 With Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Gulliver McGrath, James Spader, […]
Directed by Paolo Sorrentino Produced by Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima & Andrea Occhipinti Written by Sorrentino & Umberto Contarello Released by The Weinstein Company Italy/France/Ireland. 111 min. Rated R With Sean Penn, Frances McDormand, Judd Hirsch, Eve Hewson, Olwen Fouéré, Simon Delaney, David Byrne & Kerry Condon The old country comes to the New World […]
Directed by Ursula Meier Produced by Denis Freyd & Ruth Waldburger Written by Antoine Jaccoud & Meier with the collaboration of Gilles Taurand Released by Adopt Films French with English subtitles France/Switzerland. 97 min. Not rated With Léa Seydoux, Kacey Mottet Klein, Martin Compston & Gillian Anderson Switzerland’s submission for the best foreign-language Oscar, Sister […]
Directed and Written by Arnon Goldfinger Produced by Goldfinger & Thomas Kufus Released by Sundance Selects Hebrew, English & German with English subtitles Israel/Germany. 97 min. Not rated The Flat starts as an ordinary family gathering, the type familiar to many of us, and turns into an extraordinary story. Director Arnon Goldfinger, a humanistic and […]
Written & Directed by Leos Carax Produced by Pierre Grise Production, Théo Films, Arte France Cinéma, Pandora Film & WDR-Arte Released by Indomina Releasing English & French with English subtitles France/Germany. 116 min. Not rated With Denis Lavant, Édith Scob, Kylie Minogue, Eva Mendes & Michel Piccoli Leos Carax has returned in a big way […]
Written & Directed by Martin McDonaugh Produced by produced by McDonagh, Graham Broadbent and Pete Czernin Released by CBS Films Rated R. UK. 109 Min With Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson, Christopher Walken, Abbie Cornish, Gabourey Sidibe, Olga Kurylenko, Harry Dean Stanton & Tom Waits A real treat has been watching Martin McDonaugh transition […]
Directed by Till Schauder Produced by Sara Nodjoumi & Schauder Released by Partner Pictures USA/Germany/Iran. 93 min. Not rated Despite being a documentary about an American basketball player who goes overseas to play for a down-and-out Iranian team, the final images of The Iran Job are of Iranian women. Kevin Sheppard, a basketball player from […]
Directed by James Ponsoldt Produced by Jonathan Schwartz, Andrea Sperling & Jennifer Cochis Written by Ponsoldt & Susan Burke Released by Sony Pictures Classics. USA. 80 min. Not rated With Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Aaron Paul, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Mary Kay Place & Octavia Spencer Mary Elizabeth Winstead and recent Emmy Award-Winner Aaron Paul give […]