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Far From Men

Written and Directed by David Oelhoffen, based on “The Guest,” a short story by Albert Camus Produced by Marc du Pontavice and Matthew Gledhill Released by Tribeca Film French, Arabic, and Spanish with English subtitles France. 110 min. Not rated With Viggo Mortensen, Reda Kateb, Vincent Martin, and Djemel Barek Loosely based on a short […]

Woman in Gold

Directed by Simon Curtis Produced by Kris Thykier Written by Alexi Kaye Campell Released by The Weinstein Company US/UK. 110 min. Rated PG-13 With Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Daniel Brühl, Katie Holmes, Tatiana Maslany, Max Irons, Charles Dance, Antje Traue, Elizabeth McGovern, Jonathan Pryce, Frances Fisher, Moritz Bleibtreu, Tom Schilling, Allan Corduner, and Henry Goodman […]

My Italian Secret

Written, Directed and Produced by Oren Jacoby Released by the Film Sales Company USA. 92 min. Not rated English and Italian with English subtitles What Americans may know of World War II’s impact on Italy is often centered on the Allies’ liberating invasion and the many World at War-type documentaries that repeat the  footage of […]

Timbuktu

Directed by Abderrahmane Sissako Produced by Sylvie Pialat Written by Sissako and Kessen Tall Released by Cohen Media Group France/Mauritania. 97 min. Rated PG-13 Arabic, Bambara, French, English, Songhay, and Tamasheq with English subtitles With Ibrahim Ahmed aka Pino, Toulou Kiki, Abel Jafri, Layla Walet Mohamed, Adel Mahmoud Cherif, Fatoumata Diawara, and Salem Dendou Passionately […]

Amira & Sam

Written and Directed by Sean Mullin Produced by Terry Leonard, Erich Lochner, and Matt Miller Released by Drafthouse Films USA. 89 min. Not rated With Martin Starr, Dina Shihabi, Laith Nakli, and Paul Wesley As American Sniper continues to reign supreme at the box office this week, much is being written about the way in […]

American Sniper

Directed by Clint Eastwood Produced by Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Andrew Lazar, Peter Morgan, and Bradley Cooper Written by Jason Hall, from the book by Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen, and Jim DeFelice Released by Warner Brothers Pictures USA. 134 min. Rated R With Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Luke Grimes, Jake McDorman, Kevin Lacz, and Cory Hardrict […]

Watchers of the Sky

Directed by Edet Belzberg Produced by Belzberg, Amelia Green-Dove and Kerry Propper Based on A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power Released by Music Box Films English and Zaghawa, Spanish, French with English subtitles USA. 121 min. Not rated Just weeks before Watchers Of the Sky opened in theaters, […]

Death Metal Angola

Directed by Jeremy Xido Produced by Xido, Joseph Castelo Portuguese, with English subtitles Released by the Vladar Company USA/Angola. 84 min. Rare is the region with no sound of its own. For the Dominican Republic: merengue and bachata. For Lebanon: dabke. For Angola: death metal? In Jeremy Xido’s docu—dare I say-rock-you—mentary Death Metal Angola, we […]

Point and Shoot

Edited, Written, and Directed and edited by Marshall Curry Produced by Curry, Mr. Matthew VanDyke and Elizabeth Martin Released by the Orchard USA. 82 min. Not rated Most of us have moments when we are not comfortable in our own skin and not sure of who we are. Most of us might switch jobs or […]