Directed by Alain Guiraudie Produced by Sylvie Pialat Released by Strand Releasing French with English subtitles France. 97 min. Not rated With Pierre Deladonchamps, Christophe Paou & Patrick D’Assumçao Tense, erotic, and coolly transfixing, Stranger by the Lake captivates through its slow-burning intensity and its brazen exhibition of sexuality. Its components are a bit unconventional, […]
Directed by Brian De Palma Produced by Saïd Ben Saïd Written by Mr. De Palma & Nathalie Carter, based on the French film Crime d’Amour Released by Entertainment One Germany/France. 102 min. Rated R With Rachel McAdams, Noomi Rapace, Karoline Herfurth, Paul Anderson & Rainer Bock Split screen and misleading dream sequences: Brian De Palma’s […]
Directed by Giulio Paradisio Written by Paradisi, Luciano Comici, Robert Mundi & Ovidio Assonitis Produced by Assonitis Released by Drafthouse Films With Paige Conner, Joanne Nail, Lance Henricksen, Mel Ferrer, John Huston, Shelley Winters, Glenn Ford & Sam Peckinpah Distributor Drafthouse Films is out to find the weird, the bizarre, the off-kilter (to say the […]
Directed by David M. Rosenthal Written by Matthew F. Jones, based on his novel Produced by Aaron L. Gilbert, Chris Coen & Keith Kjarval, Jeff Rice Released by Tribeca Film/Well/Go USA Entertainment With Sam Rockwell, William H. Macy, Jeffery Wright, Jason Isaacs, Kelly Reilly, Joe Anderson, Ophelia Lovibond, Ted Levine & Melissa Leo Don’t the […]
Directed by Ziad Doueiri Produced by Jean Bréhat & Rachid Bouchareb Written by Doueiri & Joëlle Touma, based on the novel L’Attentat by Yasmina Khadra Released by Cohen Media Group Lebanon/France/Qatar/Belgium. 102 min. Rated R Arabic & Hebrew with English subtitles With Ali Suliman, Reymonde Amsellem, Evgenia Dodina, Uri Gavriel, Karim Saleh, Dvir Benedek, Ruba […]
Written & Directed by Tobias Lindholm Produced by Tomas Radoor & René Ezra Released by Magnolia Pictures English, Somali & Danish with English subtitles Denmark. 99 min. Not rated With Pilou Asbaek, Soren Malling, Dar Salim, Roland Moller, Gary Skjoldmose Porter & Abdihakin Asgar Tobias Lindholm’s tense, compelling drama A Hijacking is often as stark […]