In The World is Family, Anand Patwardhan uses the lives of his parents–their work, events they lived through and indeed, movements they were a part of–to paint a picture of India’s history, present and his hope for its future. Patwardhan’s parents (and other relatives) had shared spaces with prominent figures in Indian history such as Jawaharlal…
Ellen Burstyn sits on her sofa and refuses to move. That’s it. This is the absurd little concept fueling the debut feature of Nicalas Larsson debut feature, Mother, Couch (with an epic title btw). To try to get Mother (Ellen Burstyn) off the couch, David, Gruffudd, and Linda come together at a closing furniture store….
Directed by Kasey Lum, Bloom tells the story of a woman (Jodi Balfour) who returns home, only to find it empty. While she was out, her girlfriend has cleared out her clothes and abandoned the relationship. Left only with the plant that she had purchased as a gift for her lover, the woman grieves the loss by…
Amanda Seyfried stars in Atom Egoyan’s Seven Veils as Jeanine, a director who has been asked to reproduce a production of Salome which was originally created and produced by her recently deceased mentor. As we watch her communicate her ideas for the project, we become increasingly aware that it is tied to her life more personally than we had…
The unlikely pair of Willie Gary (Jamie Foxx) and Jeremiah O’Keefe (Tommy Lee Jones) come together in this courtroom drama/comedy to battle corporate greed. Jeremiah, a self-made family man, owns eight funeral homes and a burial insurance company in Biloxi, Mississippi. When business isn’t doing so well, he decides to sell a portion of his business…
North Star, Kristin Scott Thomas’ directorial debut, takes us back home–well, to a home in England–with three sisters who are returning for their mother’s third wedding. Her first two husbands have died, both of them while serving the country in the Royal Navy, and are heroes to the three sisters. The sisters (played by Scarlett…
Ava DuVernay’s return to feature film sees merge her urgent artistic voice and the social issues that drive it into a cohesive feature that serves both as a nonfiction investigation into caste systems and also what drives a woman to explore it. Based upon the book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent that’s written by…
Racial issues aren’t funny. But the way that we engage it as a culture can be laughable. In American Fiction, Thelonius ‘Monk’ Ellison (Jeffrey Wright) is a well-respected professor of English literature but he is struggling to leave his mark on the literary world himself. His latest novel has failed to catch on with publicists who…
Fresh out of prison, wandering English archaeologist Arthur reconnects with his wayward grave-robber group who live off looting Etruscan tombs and cemeteries buried with treasure. However, Arthur isn’t really interested in this life anymore. As a result, his search is more connected to discovering what might be beyond our world and where his beloved Beniamina…
Dance is amazing. There seems to be so much freedom in the movements and, if done right, dancing looks fun, and light and easy. Only, it’s not. Chelsea McMullan’s Swan Song takes us behind the curtain of Swan Lake, directed by Karen Kain for the National Ballet of Canada. The film follows the dancers, as well as directors, choreographers,…
