Produced and Directed by Rory Kennedy Written by Mark Bailey and Keven McAlester Released by American Experience Films USA. 98 min. Not rated The first-person accounts in Last Days in Vietnam put the audience into a gripping you-are-there Saigon in April 1975, when the United States ingloriously exited from 20 years of involvement while the […]
Directed by Janos Szasz Produced by Sandor Soth and Pal Sandor Written by Andras Szeker, Szasz and Agota Kristof, based on the book Le Grand Cahier by Kristof Released by Sony Pictures Classics Hungarian with English subtitles Hungary/Germany/Austria/France. 112 min. Rated R With Laszlo Gyemant, Andras Gyemant, Piroska Molnar, Ulrich Thomsen, Ulrich Matthes, Gyongyver Bognar […]
Directed by Dan Krauss Produced by Krauss and Linda Davis Written by Kruass, Lawrence Lerew and Davis Released by Oscilloscope Laboratories USA. 79 min. Not rated As a result of the violence they witness, soldiers often walk a fine line between morality and sanity, a demarcation that’s been well fictionalized in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of […]
Brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne were definitely overlooked, if not slighted, by the awards jury at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, coming away empty handed, perhaps because the directing team has previously won so many awards there and they don’t break thematic or narrative ground in the new Two Days, One Night. The long takes […]
Directed by Jan Troell Produced by Francy Suntinger Written by Klaus Rifbjerg and Troell, based on Kenne Fant’s biography Torgny Segerstedt: En levnadsskildring Released by Music Box Films Swedish with English subtitles Sweden/Norway. 126 min. Not rated With Jesper Christensen, Ulla Skoog, Pernilla August, Björn Granath, Birte Hibertson, Johanna Troell, and Hanna Holmqvist Octogenarian director […]
Directed and Written by Aaron Yeger Produced by Tom Rasky, Marc Swenker, Yeger, and Stephen C. Whitehead Released by First Run Features Canada. 99 min. Not rated A solitary figure walks slowly down a long wooded path. In voice-over we hear him all but whisper in a tone that hints of defeatism, that he wants […]
Directed by Georg Maas Produced by Dieter Zeppenfeld, Axel Helgeland and Rudi Teichmann Written by Maas, Christoph Tölle, Stale Stein Berg & Judith Kaufmann, based on a novel by Hannelore Hippe Released by Sundance Selects Germany/Norway. 99 min. Not rated German and Norwegian with English subtitles With Juliane Köhlern, Ken Duke, Sven Nordin, Julia Bache-Wiig, […]
Directed by Errol Morris Produced by Morris, Amanda Branson Gill and Robert Fernandez Released by RADIUS-TWC USA. 102 min. Rated PG-13 The Unknown Known gives you a front seat to recent history through the calculated point of view of one man who, astonishingly, was at the right hand of Republican power for almost 50 years. […]
Two films in this year’s New Directors/New Films program represent the breed of hybrid blending of fact and fiction that both of its sponsoring institutions are also championing in separate annual series, the Museum of Modern Art in its just completed Documentary Fortnight International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media and the Film Society of […]