Elgy Gillespie
Butte, America
A Documentary by Pamela RobertsWritten by Eugene Carr and Edwin Dobb
http://butteamericafilm.org
http://www.butteamerica.com/birish.htm
Pamela Roberts' careful "Butte, America" is an ode to the Old West. As a documentary it's a very effective requiem to that lost ...
Beverly Berning
Muhammed at the Apartheid Wall in "Shooting Muhammed"
18 Films from The Arab Film Festival
October 14-24, 2010www.arabfilmfestival.org
Time weighs on all of us, and it's the business of art to make our heavy labors light. One can't ...
Emily S. Mendel
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2010)
Directed by: Daniel AlfredsonStarring: Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Annika Hallin, Lena Endre, Per OscarssonScreenplay by: Ulf Rydberg, based on the novel by Stieg LarssonRun Time: 148 minutesIn Swedish with English ...
Paula Farmer
Carlos
Director: Olivier AssayasWriters: Olivier Assayas, Dan FranckActor: Edgar RamirezLanguage: French, German, English, Spanish, ArabicRunning Time: 330 minutes
As I sat watching the five-and-a-half-hour long Carlos, the biopic about lesser-known 70s pro-Palestinian-Che loving international terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, aka ...
Beverly Berning
Paul Volcker, whisky in hand, sits for an interview in "Inside Job."
Inside Job (2010)
Written and directed by Charles FergusonRun Time: 108 minutesMPAA Rating: PG-13
(See video preview below.)
Inside Job is an excoriating indictment of the investment ...
Paula Farmer
Scene from Jay Rosenblatt's The Darkness of DayJay Rosenblatt Retrospective at MoMAFor the next week, the Museum of Modern Art in New York will feature the works of Jay Rosenblatt, a most unusual and intriguing filmmaker with a style ...
Beverly Berning
Gemma Jones (left) and Naomi Watts in Woody Allen's You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
Written and directed by Woody AllenStarring: Gemma Jones, Naomi Watts, Lucy Punch, Pauline Collins, ...
Beverly Berning
Stonewall Uprising (2010)
Documentary by Kate Davis and David HeilbronnerMPAA rating: (not rated)Run Time: 82 minutes
http://www.firstrunfeatures.com/stonewalluprising.html
Photo credit: Betty Lane
Two acclaimed documentaries, Before Stonewall (1984) and After Stonewall (1999), bracket the seminal event itself, and Stonewall (1995), ...
George Wu
Enter the Void (2010) Directed by: Gasper NoéStarring: Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta, Cyril RoyRun Time: 161 minuteshttp://www.ifcfilms.com/films/enter-the-voidEnter the Void opens with credits set to a machine gun pace with accompanying machine gun noise. The credits are practically ...
George Wu
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) Directed by: Apichatpong WeerasethakulStarring: Thanapat Saisaymar, Jenjira Pongpas, Sakda KaewbuadeeMPAA rating: Not RatedRun Time: 113 minutesPalme d'Or winner Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives is one of the ...
