Written, Produced and Directed by Aarón Fernández Released by Strand Releasing Spanish with English subtitles Spain/France/Mexico. 100 min. Not rated With Kristyan Ferrer and Adriana Paz From Y Tu Mama También to the more recent It Felt Like Love, the beach has been fertile ground for tales of sexual discovery and youthful awakenings. Although Mexican […]
Directed by Vincent Grashaw Produced by Kris Dorrance, Dave Gare, and Grashaw Written by Grashaw and Mark Penney Released by Breaking Glass Pictures USA. 104 min. Not rated With P. J. Boudousqué, James C. Burns, Chris Petrovski, Octavius J. Johnson, Nicholas Bateman Vincent Grashaw’s debut feature, Coldwater, is the kind of slow-burn thriller that almost […]
Directed by Shosh Shlam and Hilla Medalia Produced by Medalia, Shlam and Neta Zwebner-Zaibert Released by Kino Lorber Films Mandarin with English subtitles USA/Israel. 79 min. Not rated On its own, the Internet can be a scary place. Compounded with addiction, there’s no telling how deeply the rabbit hole might take us. The documentary Web Junkie […]
Produced and Directed by Tracy Droz Tragos and Andrew Droz Palermo Released by the Orchard USA. 91 min. Not rated While watching this film, I thought back to the times that I discussed the topic of poverty in America with my students in government class. It never ceased to amaze me that many of these […]
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, […]
One of the top films at Cannes this year—and one of the most shocking and brutal—was The Tribe, from the Ukraine. It was also the most ambitious, dangerous, and accomplished by a debut filmmaker. No subtitles were necessary. It has no spoken dialogue and no translation of any kind; it’s all told through sign language. […]
Written and Directed by Lukas Moodysson, based on the graphic novel Never Goodnight by Coco Moodysson Produced by Lars Jonsson Released by Magnolia Pictures Swedish with English subtitles Sweden/Denmark. 102 min. Not rated With Mira Barkhammar, Mira Grosin, and Liv LeMoyne Lukas Moodysson’s returns after a four-year break with his sixth feature, We are the […]
Written and Directed by Gia Coppola, based on Palo Alto: Stories by James Franco Produced by Sebastian Pardo, Adriana Rotaru, Miles Levy and Vince Jolivette Released by Tribeca Film USA. 98 min. Not rated With James Franco, Emma Roberts, Nat Wolff, Zoe Levin, Claudia Levy, Olivia Crocicchia, Jack Kilmer, and Jacqui Getty Based on a […]
Written and Directed by Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly Produced Gaudet, Gita Pullapilly and Kavita Pullapilly Released by Tribeca Film USA. 116 min. Not rated With Emory Cohen, Callan McAuliffe, Aidan Gillen, Zoe Levin, Sarah Sutherland, Timm Sharp and Timothy Simons As the brainchild of married couple Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly, Beneath the Harvest […]