A fledgling young model is plucked from obscurity to pursue her dreams of stardom in the cutthroat Paris fashion scene in The Model, directed by Mads Matthiesen. Away from her life in Denmark, Emma (played by newcomer and real-life model Maria Palm) …Read more
Two women with wildly different temperaments and life experiences are compellingly brought together in Finnish playwright Minna Nurmelin’s sharp and perceptive tragicomedy Remember Me, presented by the Scandinavian American Theater Company as part of …Read more
On the heels of the international hit, A Five Star Life (Viaggio sola), comes the romantic comedy Me, Myself and Her (Io e lei), Maria Sole Tognazzi’s fourth film and second collaboration with Italian movie star Margherita Buy. Retired actress Marina …Read more
Flavia, the unlikely heroine of Laura Morante’s comedy Solo (Assolo), is a neurotic mess. Suffocatingly insecure, she’s at a crucial crossroads: newly single, job on the line, children all gown up. Perpetually stuck, and in an existential panic now t …Read more
In May of 2004, 52.5 million viewers across America watched Ross and Rachel get back together for the last time, swearing eternal commitment to each other, on the final episode of the television series Friends. More than a decade later, people across …Read more
The semi-autobiographical mixes with modern social issues in Fellipe Barbosa’s impressive, critically acclaimed feature film Casa Grande. Newcomer Thales Cavalcanti stars as Jean, a seventeen-year-old student from a wealthy family in Rio whose home l …Read more
There are few things more unsettling than watching an unsupervised young boy find a handgun while playing on a rooftop in New York City. On one hot summer day in Brooklyn, with various targets to train his angelic eyes on, no one is safe in director …Read more
Within the occupied land of Palestine, under the constant threat of violence and uncertainty, an emerging community of racing drivers is flourishing. Since its introduction in 2005, the relatively new sport has become an activity that has not only br …Read more
On a dirt road in a small village in Southern Italy, Antonio comes across the wounded body of the town drunk, Vincenzo, passed out in a haze of booze and dehydration. After Antonio rushes the old man to the hospital, a misdiagnosis of the cause of Vi …Read more
British photojournalist Don McCullin’s famed career spans nearly half a century and is most noted for his war photography and portraits of urban strife. Under the editorship of Harold Evans of the Sunday Times, McCullin was a star photographer from 1 …Read more
