Some of Tribeca Film Festival’s lesser-known documentaries and fiction films were the strongest I’d seen in the program. There were certainly standouts, films that had what seemed like impossible footage of an event—Alias Ruby Blade shares secrets firsthand from within the heart of a country’s rebellion—or feature films that explore familiar territory with nuance and […]
Written & Directed by Kim Nguyen Produced by Pierre Even, Marie-Claude Poulin & Item 7 Released by Tribeca Film Canada. 90 min. Not rated French & Lingala with English subtitles With Rachel Mwanza, Serge Kanyinda, Alain Bastien, Mizinga Mwinga & Ralph Prosper Imagine a devastated world where starving children are brutally pitted against each other […]
Directed, Written & Produced by Wendy Jo Cohen Released by WideSphere Films USA. 96 min. Not Rated With Matthew Ludwinski, Andy Sandberg, Feng Tien Lui, Barron A. Myers, Cheri Paige Fogleman, Tim Cusack, Zeb Hollins III, John Redmond, Maureen Brooks, Emilie Bonsant, Emily Mitchell & Shelley McPherson The Battle of Pussy Willow Creek is a […]
Directed by Cate Shortland Produced by Karsten Stöter, Liz Watts, Paul Watts, Paul Welsh & Benny Dreschel Written by Shortland & Robin Mukherjee, based on the novel The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert Released by Music Box Films Germany/Australia/UK. 108 min. Not Rated German with English subtitles With Saskia Rosendahl, Kai Malina, Nele Trebs, Ursina […]
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow Produced by Mark Boal, Bigelow & Megan Ellison Written by Boal Released by Columbia Pictures USA. 156 min. Rated R With Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Ehle, Mark Strong, Kyle Chandler, Edgar Ramirez, James Gandolfini, Chris Pratt, Callan Mulvey, Fares Fares, Reda Kateb & Stephen Dillane Much ink and […]
Directed by Danis Tanovic Produced by Cedomir Kolar, Amra Baksic Camo, Marc Bachet and Mirsad Purivatra Written by Tanovic & Ivica Dikic, based on Dikic’s novel Released by Strand Releasing Bosnian with English subtitles Bosnia and Herzegovina/France/UK/Germany/Solvenia/Belgium/Serbia. 113 min. Not rated With Miki Manojlovic, Mira Furlan, Boris Ler & Jovana Stupljanin Bosnian director Danis Tanovic […]
Directed by Agnieszka Holland Produced by Steffen Reuter, Patrick Knippel, Marc-Daniel Dichant, Leander Carell, Juliusz Machulski, Paul Stephens & Eric Jordan Written by David F. Shamoon, based on the book In The Sewers of Lvov: A Heroic Story of Survival from the Holocaust by Robert Marshall Released by Sony Pictures Classics Poland/Germany/France/Canada. 143 min. Rated […]
Written & Directed by Liza Johnson Produced by Noah Harlan, Ben Howe & Johnson Teleased by DADA Films. USA. 97 min. Not rated With Linda Cardellini, Michael Shannon, John Slattery, Talia Balsam, Bonnie Swencionis, Emma Rayne Lyle & Paul Sparks This may be the year of the relapse movie. In the case of Return, the […]
Directed by Ralph Fiennes Produced by Fiennes, John Logan, Gabrielle Tana, Julia Taylor-Stanley & Colin Vaines Written by Logan, based on the play by William Shakespeare Released by the Weinstein Company UK. 123 min. Rated R With Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Brian Cox, Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica Chastain, John Kani, James Nesbett, Paul Jesson, Lubna Azabel […]