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Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel

Produced & Directed by Lisa Immordino Vreeland Released by Samuel Goldwyn Films/Epix USA. 86 min. Rated PG-13 “Faction,” the blending of real life and fiction, is the word Diana Vreeland uses to describe the most interesting stories of her extraordinary life. Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel makes note that her sense of history, […]

How to Survive a Plague

Directed by David France Written by France, T. Woody Richman & Tyler H. Walk Produced by Howard Gertler & France Released by Sundance Selects USA. 110 min. Not rated This powerful and highly charged documentary takes us through the pivotal years in the history of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, better known as Act […]

17 Girls

Written & Directed by Delphine & Muriel Coulin Produced by Denis Freyd Released by Strand Releasing French with English subtitles France. 90 min. Not rated With Louise Grinberg, Juliette Darche, Roxane Duran, Esther Garrel, Yara Pilartz, Solène Rigot, Noémie Lvovsky, Florence Thomassin, Carlo Brandt, Frédéric Noaille & Arthur Verret The 2008 news story about a […]

Lawless

Directed by John Hillcoat Produced by Douglas Wick, Lucy Fisher, Megan Ellison & Michael Benaroya Written by Nick Cave, based on the book The Wettest County in the World by Matt Bondurant Released by the Weinstein Company USA. 116 min. Rated R With Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Guy Pearce, […]

Neighboring Sounds

Written & Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho Produced by Emilie Lesclaux Released by Cinema Guild Portuguese with English subtitles Brazil. 131 min. Not rated With Irandhir Santos, Gustavo Jahn, Meve Jinkings, W. J. Solha, Irma Brown, Lula Terra, Yuri Holanda & Clébia Souza Abundant are the views of neighbors’ patios from second floor windows, and […]

Sleepwalk With Me

Directed by Mike Birbiglia; written by Mike Birbiglia, Ira Glass, Joe Birbiglia & Seth Barrish, based on the play by Mike Birbiglia Produced by Glass & Jacob Jaffke Released by IFC Films USA. 90 min. Not rated With Mike Birbiglia, Lauren Ambrose, Cristin Milioti, Aya Cash, Marylouise Burke, Loudon Wainwright III, James Rebhorn & Carol […]

The Do-Deca-Pentathlon

Written & Directed by Jay Duplass & Mark Duplass Produced by Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass & Stephanie Langhoff Released by Red Flag Releasing/Fox Searchlight Pictures (available on DVD/Blu-ray Sept. 18) USA.90 min Rated R With Steve Zissis, Mark Kelly, Jennifer Lafleur, Julie Vorus & Reid Williams Released just before the start of the London Olympics, […]

The Awakening

Directed by Nick Murphy Written by Murphy & Stephen Volk Produced by David M. Thompson, Julia Stannard & Sarah Curtis Released by Cohen Media Group UK. 102 min. Rated R With Rebecca Hall, Dominic West, Imelda Staunton, Lucy Cohu, John Shrapnel, Cal Macaninch, Isaac Hempstead-Wright & Joseph Mawle Florence Cathcart isn’t a believer in ghosts. […]

Chicken With Plums

Written & Directed by Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud, based on the graphic novel by Satrapi Produced by Hengameh Panahi Released by Sony Pictures Classics. French, with English subtitles. France/Germany/Belgium. 91 min. Rated PG-13 With Mathieu Amalric, Edouard Baer, Maria de Medeiros, Golshifteh Farahani, Eric Caravaca, Chiara Mastroianni, Mathis Bour, Serge Avédikian, Jamel Debbouze & […]