In Ow, the debut feature from director Yohei Suzuki, a mysterious orb throws a wrench into the lives of an average Japanese family. But in many ways, the orb simply reveals the extent to which the Japanese economy and life in general has stunted the …Read more

In theory, going camping in the wilderness ought be a pleasant and rewarding experience. There’s a spiritual quality in nature that connects the modern camper to a time before Twitter and microwave ovens. Thoreau and countless others have spoken abou …Read more

Kornél Mundruczó pushes surrealist parable to the nth degree with White God. A simple story of a girl and her lost dog, Hagen, rises to a Dantean fever pitch when Hagen is mercilessly abused and eventually assembles a battalion of rejected dogs to ex …Read more

For more than thirty years, New Directors/New Films has brought New Yorkers exciting new works from once-little-known directors like Pedro Almodóvar, Richard Linklater, Steven Spielberg, Spike Lee and Wim Wenders. Recent offerings have included accla …Read more

Violet directed by Bas Devos is set in a city that’s under constant surveillance. With cameras everywhere, and guards monitoring our lives, one would think that, among all the reasons for surveillance, we’d also be safer. But tragedy strikes in the b …Read more

C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon) fights to get even a single decent night’s sleep in his own apartment. His problem: he’s got a great apartment in New York City and all the top executives at his workplace want to use it to conduct their extramarital affairs …Read more

The Fool is a film on the inexhaustible subject of Russian corruption that wields its moral truths with the force of a sledgehammer. An ordinary man discovers a crack in the foundation of an old housing project and makes the mistake of trying to save …Read more

What does a person do after years of disappointments, when life strays far from where they thought they would wind up? In the anti-coming of age dramedy Growing Up and Other Lies, Jake (Josh Lawson), like most people, chooses to deal by romanticizing …Read more

The passions and desires in Benoît Jacquot’s Three Hearts are so overpowering and grand, that one can almost reach out to the screen and touch them! The unabashedly romantic, adult drama begins in the city of Valence, where Marc (Benoît Poelvoorde) a …Read more

Just based on the title of Alex Gibney’s Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, it seems fairly obvious which side of the story he’s setting out to tell, and while an impressive amount of investigation went into this telling, the film vee …Read more