Dec 28, 2014
Dir: Claude Lanzmann; France, Austria
2013; 218 min Documentary
The title of the film was given, tongue in cheek, by its main protagonist: Rabbi Benjamin Murmelstein (1905-1989), who was the third and...
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Dec 25, 2014
Director: Marilyn Ann Moss
100min Documentary USA
Though perhaps not as well-remembered a name as some of his contemporaries, Raoul Walsh nevertheless delivered many a well-loved film in his 50 year directing...
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Dec 25, 2014
Director: Tom Harper
Writers: John Croker from the novel by Susan Hill
Cast: Helen McCrory, Jeremy Irvine, Phoebe Fox, Leanne Best, Ned Dennehy, Andrian Rawlins
98min UK Thriller
Tom Harper's well-crafted adaptation...
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Dec 25, 2014
Dir.: Angelina Jolie
Cast: Jack O’Connell, Miyavi, Domhnah Gleeson, Finn Wittrock
USA 2014, 137 min.
After Land of Blood and Honey Angelina Jolie chooses another war theme for her second film as a...
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Dec 24, 2014
Dir.: Denis Villeneuve
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Melanie Laurent, Sarah Gadon, Isabella Rosselini
Canada/Spain, 90 min.
Based on the novel “The Double” by Portuguese Nobel-Prize winning author Jose Saramago, ENEMY suffers greatly from its transfer...
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Dec 23, 2014
Q: What do David Lean, Claude Lanzmann, Kurosawa, Spike Lee, and Katharine Hepburn all have in common?
A: They all come in box sets and any one of them could make...
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Dec 23, 2014
Director/Writer: Barney Platts-Mills
Cast: Susan Penhaligon, Bruce Robinson, Michael Feast, Robert Brown, Kathleen Byron
89min UK Drama
Like Bronco Bullfrog, Barney Platts-Mills’s second feature, PRIVATE ROAD (1971), is semi-improvised but this...
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Dec 22, 2014
Dir.: David Llewelyn Wark Griffith
Cast: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Lilian Langdon, Constance Talmadge, Miriam Cooper
USA 1916, 168 min. SILENT
Premiering on September 5th 1916, when the First World War...
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Dec 21, 2014
Dir: Zak Knutson
Joey Figueroa; USA 2013, 95 min.
A documentary about John Milius, one of Hollywood's most loved and hated filmmakers Hollywood in the last 50 years, has to be controversial:...
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