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Drinking Buddies (2013) 3 Aug 2013 | 03:18 am
Sexual tension abounds between friends played by Olivia Wilde and Jake Johnson in “Drinking Buddies.” Photo: Magnolia Pictures If “When Harry Met Sally” (1989) is Nora Ephron’s take on Woody Allen, t...
Documentarist 2013 means more in light of Gezi Resistance 22 Jul 2013 | 09:32 pm
The 6th Istanbul Documentary Days was blessed with an outstanding location for a documentary film festival: a park which has become a cause and a symbol of an urban uprising movement that has spread t...
Les Invisibles: Speaking up, stepping out 19 Jul 2013 | 07:32 pm
Les Invisibles does more than you’d expect of a documentary about elderly gay and lesbian people. I went into this film anticipating a series of interesting stories about individual lives, but this is...
Before Midnight: Unevenly Matched 11 Jul 2013 | 04:33 pm
Before Midnight offers a long-awaited update on the lives of Céline and Jesse, the couple who met on a train to Vienna in the 90s, then came together again in Paris the 2000s after Jesse wrote a book ...
Black Rock (2013) 2 Jul 2013 | 07:39 am
Mark Duplass and Katie Aselton surprised me with “Black Rock,” a lean, formidable thriller about survival and friendship. A husband and wife team, Mr. Duplass wrote the screenplay and Ms. Asleton dire...
The Church of Paul Thomas Anderson 11 Jun 2013 | 10:27 pm
By the time he brought Revelation upon Los Angeles in the form of frog rain, Paul Thomas Anderson had already achieved a level of formal and thematic completeness in his body of work which is rare for...
New Japanese Cinema at ‘Nippon Connection’ 16 May 2013 | 09:49 pm
Founded in 1999 by students at the University of Frankfurt, Germany, the Nippon Connection film festival has become the biggest platform for current Japanese cinema outside of Japan. The festival prid...
‘Farah Goes Bang’ writer/director awarded Norah Ephron Prize at Tribeca 27 Apr 2013 | 12:33 am
NEW YORK — First-time writer/director Meera Menon (“Farah Goes Bang”) took home the inaugural Nora Ephron Prize at the 12th annual Tribeca Film Festival on Thursday. Menon was selected out of eight 20...
‘Richard III’ to be restored in 4K 26 Apr 2013 | 09:34 pm
CULVER CITY, Calif. — A few months before the bones of Richard III were discovered below a parking lot in Leicester, England, the infamous British monarch was the focal point of a very different type ...
Focus Features picks up Jean-Marc Vallee’s ‘Dallas Buyers Club’ 26 Apr 2013 | 08:14 pm
NEW YORK — Focus Features has picked up the domestic and Latin American distribution rights to Jean-Marc Vallée’s ”Dallas Buyers Club,” Focus CEO James Schamus and Focus president Andrew Karpen said T...
