Marielle Heller’s directorial debut is a rare film that fully embraces the complexities of its protagonist’s sexual awakening, evoking the spirit of the work of Catherine Breillat.
Results
Andrew Bujalski shifts gears from his bizarro breakout hit COMPUTER CHESS and turns in RESULTS, a clever, gentle satire wrapped up in the guise of a romantic comedy.
Fassbinder – To Love Without Demands
FASSBINDER – TO LOVE WITHOUT DEMANDS offers a compelling personal reflection on writer-director Christian Braad Thomsen’s friendship with the legendary enfant terrible of New German Cinema, Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West Berlin 1979-1989
From the Berlinale, B-MOVIE: LUST AND SOUND IN WEST BERLIN 1979-1989 is an engaging documentary of a musical subculture that plays as a collision of the individual and the socio-political.
New York Film Festival 2014 – Dispatch Four
In this final dispatch from the 52nd New York Film Festival, one of the year’s gems returns home, a Soderbergh-produced documentary that plays like a high-stakes thriller, and two of this year’s sure-to-be awards-season heavy hitters.
New York Film Festival 2014 – Dispatch Three
In our third dispatch from New York Film Festival, we look at two of the most anticipated features this year from two acclaimed auteurs alongside a smug and manipulative documentary.
New York Film Festival 2014 – Dispatch Two
In this second dispatch from the 2014 New York Film Festival, a look at three biopics of very different temperaments, new documentaries from two of the genre’s masters, and a film from Africa that humanizes the headlines.
New York Film Festival 2014 – Dispatch One
Our first report from the 2014 NYFF looks at the latest from Cronenberg, Fincher, Alonso and dotes on Pedro Costa’s superb HORSE MONEY.