Written and Directed by Pablo Fendrik Released by Participant Media Spanish with English subtitles Argentina/Mexico/Brazil/France/USA. 100 min. Not rated With Gael Garcia Bernal, Alice Braga, and Claudio Tolcachir In the beginning, an intertitle explains that residents of the northern Argentine rainforest beseech river spirits to aid them when they feel threaten. Thus, early on, Gael […]
Written and Directed by John Maclean Produced by Rachel Gardner, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, and Conor McCaughan Released by A24 UK/New Zealand. 91 min. Rated R With Kodi Smit-McPhee, Michael Fassbender, Ben Mendelsohn, Caren Pistorius, and Rory McCann The feature debut of former Beta Band member John MacLean is an arty little Western that has […]
Directed by Kristian Levring Written by Anders Thomas Jensen and Levring Produced by Sisse Graum Jorgensen Released by IFC Films English and Danish with English subtitles Denmark/UK/South Africa/Sweden/Belgium. 92 min. Rated R With Mads Mikkelsen, Eva Green, Eric Cantona, Mikael Persbrandt, Douglas Henshall, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Jonathan Pryce One unwritten rule of thumb for […]
Written and directed by Ana Lily Amirpour Produced by Sina Sayyah, Justin Begnaud and Amirpour Released by Kino Lorber/Vice Films Farsi with English subtitles USA. 107 min. Not rated With Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Mozhan Marno, Dominic Rains, Milad Eghbali, Rome Shadanloo, Marshall Manesh and Reza Sixo Safai A chador-wearing vampire stalks the sleazy men […]
Directed by Tommy Lee Jones Produced by Michael Fitzgerald, Peter Brant, Brian Kennedy, Luc Besson and Hilary Swank Written by Jones, Kieran Fitzgerald, and Wesley A. Oliver, based on the novel by Glendon Swarthout Released by Roadside Attractions/Saban Films France/USA. 122 min. Rated R With Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary Swank, Miranda Otto, Grace Gummer, Sonja […]
Written & Directed by David Lowery Produced by Lars Knudsen, Jay Van Hoy, James M. Johnston, Toby Halbrooks, Cassian Elwes & Amy Kaufman Released by IFC Films USA. 105 min. Not rated With Rooney Mara, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster, Keith Carradine & Nate Parker It takes a filmmaker with strong courage to make what on […]
Perhaps the two main stories that emerged from this year’s Cannes Film Festival were the jewelry heists (who knew Brian De Palma’s Femme Fatale was so prescient?) and the praise and immediate backlash heaped on the Palm d’Or winner Blue Is the Warmest Color, namely Elaine Sciolino’s piece in the New York Times in which […]
Directed by Sergio Corbucci Produced by Manolo Bolognini & Corbucci Written by Corbucci, Bruno Corbucci, Franco Rossetti, , José Gutiérrez Maesso, Piero Vivarelli Released by Rialto Pictures Italian with English subtitles Italy/Spain. 91 min. Not rated With Franco Nero, Loredana Nusciak, José Bódalo, Ángel Álvarez, Eduardo Fajardo & Gino Pernice Django was not just a […]
Written & Directed by Quentin Tarantino Produced by Stacy Sher, Reginald Hudlin & Pilar Savone Released by the Weinstein Company USA. 165 min. Rated R With Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Don Johnson, Walton Goggins, Jonah Hill, Bruce Dern & Franco Nero A filmmaker’s love for his art can […]