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 […]
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 […]