Jan 16, 2017
Dir: Rudiger Suchsland | Doc, Germany, 119'
German cinema of the Weimar Republic, the first democratic state on German soil, was innovative as well as contradictory – lasting from 1918 to...
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Jan 16, 2017
Cinema Born of the Icy Cold is the feature of the Berlinale NATIVe 2017 strand that highlights ten features from Indigenous Films from the Arctic Circle, and nine shorts.
The Sámi...
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Jan 15, 2017
Directed by Rintaro, written by Katsuhiro Otomo and produced by Madhouse with conceptual support from Tezuka Productions, this science-fiction anime action is loosely based on the 1949 Metropolis manga created...
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Jan 15, 2017
Dir: Vitaly Mansky | 112min | Documentary | Ukraine | Russia
Chatting to his mother in the opening scenes of RODNYE, Ukrainian director Vitaly Mansky (Pipeline) discovers for the first time that...
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Jan 14, 2017
Dir/Writer: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Chihiro Ikeda based on a novel by Yutaka Maekawa | Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Yuko Takeuchi, Teruyuki Kagawa, Haruna Kawaguchi, Masahiro Higashide | 130min | Japan | Fantasy...
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Jan 12, 2017
Dir: Damien Chazelle : Cast: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone | US | Musical Drama | 129min
The 73rd Venice Film Festival opened with the razzmatazz of a rousing Hollywood musical, that...
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Jan 10, 2017
Writer/Director Fabián Bielinsky
Cast: Ricardo Darin, Dolores Fonzi, Alejandro Awada, Pablo Cedrón, Jorge D'Elia, Manuel Rodal, Rafael Castejón, Walter Reyno, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart
Argentina-Spain-France / Drama / 134mins
El Aura (The Aura) was...
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Jan 10, 2017
Dir.: Sam Peckinpah | Cast: Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Robert Webber, Gig Young, Kris Kristofferson, Emilio Fernandez, Janine Maldonado | USA/Mexico | 112 min.
Director Sam Peckinpah (1925-1984) brought us Straw...
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Jan 10, 2017
Dir.: Pablo Larrain; Cast: Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig, Max Castella, John Hurt; USA/Chile 2016, 91 min.
Director Pablo Larrain (Neruda) films Noah Oppenheim’s intricate script of JACKIE, covering four...
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