After meeting as children over a series of summers in the Italian Alps, Pietro (Luca Marinelli) and Bruno (Alessandro Borghi) reunite as adults to build a mountainside cottage which becomes a site of both reflection and reconciliation. From filmmakers Felix Van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch.
Set during a bitter 1964 Massachusetts winter, young secretary Eileen becomes enchanted by the glamorous new counselor at the prison where she works. Their budding friendship takes a twisted turn when Rebecca reveals a dark secret — throwing Eileen onto a sinister path. A film by William Oldroyd starring Thomasin …
Vi Anand writes and directs this romantic thriller. In Telugu.
One of Luis Buñuel's raw made-in-Mexico melodramas, given teeth and a wicked grin through the rude, and sometimes sadistic, humor. It describes, in gloating detail, jealousy's consumption of a glamorously mustached, morally unimpeachable aristocrat, after he takes a sweet young bride. The English title is This Strange Passion, not as …
“Everybody’s just loving everybody too much for my money,” growls Elaine Stritch, one of the last honest voices in show business and arguably the only virgin ever to prevail against JFK’s sexual advances. For her first film as a director, documentary producer Chiemi Karasawa follows the storied, sassy, 86-year-old Broadway …
A journey through the biblical meaning of sacrifice, with a message about the power of the mass and eternal life, set to images of nature from Brazil and Iceland.
A year in the life of the world’s most celebrated restaurant, chef Ferran Adrià’s now-closed temple of molecular gastronomy, El Bulli. After only a single sentence of introduction, the viewer is plunged into the restaurant’s Barcelona food lab, where ordinary foodstuffs (sweet potatoes, mushrooms) are subjected to extraordinary trials (vacuuming, …
Television writ large.
Twin brothers (Raúl Castillo in a dual role) grow up on opposite sides of the law. Stop me if you’ve heard this one. At any moment, it could have taken a generic turn towards boogeyman frights or comic book adventure before settling into a regulation cops vs. hooded avenger thriller. …
The September 19, 1985 earthquake in México City forms the basis for this story of journalist trying to find his son in a collapsed building. Written and directed by Kuno Becker.
The depiction of dirty politics in an Omaha high school, and by extension dirtiness in the national politics, or dirtiness in the national character, observes the time-tested satirical strategy of making a big deal out of a little deal, namely a campaign for the presidency of the student council. It …
Paolo and Vittorio Taviani's early-19th-century period piece, from a Goethe novel, traces the realignment of affections among a newly married couple and their two houseguests of opposite sexes. The application of the laws of chemistry, the rigidness of geometry, and the precision of mathematics, to the fathomless vagaries of human …