Director Michael Almereyda is no stranger to modernizing Shakespeare; his best-known film is probably his 2000 version of Hamlet that featured Ethan Hawke as a film school slacker version of the prince stalking the NYC boardrooms of the Denmark Corpo …Read more

Last time Patricia Clarkson and writer/director Ruba Nadda got together, they delivered the delightful romance Cairo Time, in which Clarkson’s character romanced a swoon-worthy Alexander Siddig among the Egyptian pyramids. In October Gale, their seco …Read more

In October Gale, Academy Award nominee Patricia Clarkson plays Helen, a recently widowed woman who decides to spend some time in the isolated lake cabin where she and her husband spend some of their happiest times. As soon as she arrives, several une …Read more

Having made a handful of great films in the past, Polish born director Pawel Pawlikowski has gotten more press lately than ever before thanks to his Oscar-winning film Ida. Pawlikowski studied philosophy at Oxford, pursed filmmaking part-time through …Read more

From the beginning, Farewell to Hollywood filmmaker Henry Corra knew that his collaborator, and subject, Regina “Reggie” Nicholson would be dead by the time they completed the film. Recently diagnosed with terminal cancer, the teenage girl had one la …Read more

Eastern Boys opens at the Gare du Nord train station in Paris, where we see a group of Eastern European youths tempting fate by teasing petty theft and other mischief to the authorities. The camera follows one of them, Marek (Kirill Emelyanov) as he …Read more

Everly begins in a bathroom, where the title character (played by Salma Hayek) has locked herself in, as she hides from a group of men who don’t seem like they want to have tea and cookies with her. Tension rises as Everly reaches for a handgun. At f …Read more

Kristian Levring’s The Salvation starring Mads Mikkelsen, is an homage to American Westerns that shines in style but misses the mark in genre conviction. Mikkelsen plays a Danish soldier who settled in the Wild West after the Second Schleswig War. He …Read more

Films from the Middle East, at least the ones that make it all the way to North American audiences, have a stylistic flair and a certain unpredictable exoticism. These films gives glimpses into societies that are worlds away, countries that are mostl …Read more

Farewell to Hollywood is a documentary by director Henry Corra about his relationship with teenage filmmaker Regina Nicholson in the last two years of her battle with cancer. In the cinema verite tradition, Corra inserts himself and his camera into t …Read more