The love story between the singer, Maya, and a producer, a director, a musician, and a billionaire. The first Vietnamese movie shot entirely in the U.s. includes 13 songs. Starring Quoc Cuong, Duc Tien, Baggio Saetti, and Anh Dung.
Has Jesus been misquoted? This new documentary analyzes the manuscripts of the New Testament.
Ambitious little chiller, related largely in flashback, concerning a working-class Texas widower (Bill Paxton, who also directed) who announces one night to his two young sons that an angel has visited him in his sleep and anointed him a slayer of demons. A hit-list of same will be forthcoming. "So …
Part biopic, part documentary featuring Alec Baldwin in the title role of soul-selling, car inventing cokehead, John DeLorean.
Things are pretty exciting for a while for young Frances Farmer of Seattle. There is the atheistic high-school valedictory, the theatrical tour to Communist Russia, the Hollywood contract, the triumphant and defiant homecoming for the premiere of Come and Get It, the involvement with Harold Clurman's Group Theatre and the …
Can we just go ahead and agree that the actress Greta Gerwig is (for better and for worse) our generation's Katherine Hepburn? Adore or despise, she is a force of nature, something to be reckoned with. Here, she makes vaguely misanthropic director Noah Baumbach put down his torturer's tools in …
Credits normally withheld for a closing crawl open director Aleksandr Sokurov’s (Russian Ark), latest self-important hymn to the importance of art museums. Listen as the disembodied voice of the documentarian expresses disappointment over his latest production. He’s not the only one. Borrowing a page from the Michael Moore playbook, Sokurov’s …
Frank (Michael Fassbender), the visionary lead singer in an unsung alt-rock band, spends his entire life hiding beneath piñata headgear that brings to mind a Jack-in-the-Box drive-thru. His parents later confess their adult son suffers from mental illness. Really? Forrest Gump for hipsters, this huggable, Sundance-sanctioned babble joins the ever-stretching …
Flattering portrait of long-time Disney animators (from the Thirties into the Seventies) and longer-time friends, Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston. The filmmaker is Frank's son, Theodore, and the tone, somewhat lulling, is one of unquestioning veneration. Clips from their later work, The Sword in the Stone, The Jungle Book, and …
Adequate biographical data (narrated by Ron Howard), generous film clips (of uneven print quality), and perhaps overgenerous eulogies (from the likes of Martin Scorsese, Oliver Stone, John Milius, and Robert Altman), in celebration of the centennial of Capra's birth. Written and directed by Kenneth Bowser.
Boris Karloff in the career-making role that Bela Lugosi turned down, the famous composite clumper who has a heavy-handed way of dealing with his Master and a little girl picking daisies. Directed by James Whale, who, despite the evidence of this grim trudge, had it in him to be quite …
Twice as grim. A hundred times more terrifying! See? They had sequels back then, too.
Director Tim Burton returns to a short film he made at the very beginning of his career. If the move signals a certain failure to advance creatively, it also marks a return to the realm of the heartfelt, which is where he does his best work. So yes, you'll see …