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 […]
Directed by Rithy Panh Produced by Catherine Dussart Written by Panh and Christophe Bataille French with English subtitles Released by Strand Releasing Cambodia/France. 92 min. Not rated The Missing Picture creatively relives the Cambodian holocaust and surmounts the storytelling problem intrinsic to retelling such horrors. Time inexorably passes, evidence disappears, and the last witnesses grow […]
Directed by Arnaud Desplechin Written by Mr. Desplechin, with Kent Jones & Julie Peyr, based on Reality and Dream by Georges Devereux Produced by Jennifer Roth, Pascal Caucheteux & Grégoire Sorlat Released by IFC Films France/USA. 114 min. Not rated With Benicio Del Toro, Mathieu Amalric, Gina McKee, Larry Pine, Joseph Cross, Michelle Thrush and […]
Directed by Fedor Bondarchuk Written by Ilya Tilkin & Sergey Snezhkin, based on the novel by Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman Produced by Alexander Rodnyansky, Anton Zlatopolskiy, Dmitry Rudovskiy & Sergey Melkumov Released by Columbia Pictures/Imax 3D Russian & German with English subtitles Russia. 135 min. Rated R With Mariya Smolnikova, Yanina Studilina, Petr […]
Written & Directed by Hayao Miyazaki, based on a graphic novel published in Monthly Model Graphix Produced by Toshio Suzuki Released by Studio Ghibli/Touchstone Pictures Japanese with English subtitles Japan. 126 min. Rated PG-13 Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki has announced his intention to retire more than once. So when, upon the premiere of this […]
Released by ShortsHD 97 min. Not rated “Do I Have To Take Care of Everything?” The briefest, by half, of this year’s Oscar nominated live-action shorts makes more of an impact than its tone and brevity might suggest. The Finnish short covers a morning in the chaotic life of the Ketonin family, scrambling like mad […]
Directed by Philipp Kadelbach Produced by Nico Hofmann Written by Stefan Kolditz Released by Music Box Films Germany. Part one: 131 min.; Part two: 148 min. Not rated English, German, & Polish with English subtitles With Volker Bruch, Tom Schilling, Katharina Schüttler, Ludwig Trepte & Miriam Stein Generation War sweeps away a half century of […]
Written & Directed by Peter Berg, based on the book by Marcus Luttrell & Patrick Robinson Produced by Mark Wahlberg, Mr. Berg, Sarah Aubrey, Randall Emmett, Norton Herrick, Barry Spikings, Akiva Goldsman, Stephen Levinson & Vitaly Grigogoriants Released by Universal Pictures USA. 121 min. Rated R With Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch, Ben Foster, […]
Written & Directed by Wladyslaw Pasikowski Produced by Dariusz Jablonski, Violetta Kaminska & Izabela Wojcik Released by Menemsha Films Polish with English subtitles Poland/Netherlands/Russia/Slovakia. 104 min. Not rated With Maciej Stuhr, Ireneusz Czop, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Zuzana Fialova, Andrzej Mastalerz, Zbigniew Zamachowski & Danuta Szaflarska Aftermath, an intense thriller, exposes the corrosive effect of collective silence and lies […]