SéraphineRunning time 125 minutesWritten by Martin Provost and Marc AbdenourDirected by Martin ProvostStarring Yolande Moreau, Ulrich Tukur, Wilhelm Uhde
Martin Provost’s Séraphine, from a screenplay (in French with English subtitles) by Mr. Provost and Marc Abdenour, tells the remarkable real-life story of Séraphine de Senlis, a 48-year-old chaste housekeeper whose naïve, brightly colored, still-life paintings were Read More
TetroRunning time 127 minutesWritten and directed by Francis Ford CoppolaStarring Vincent Gallo, Maribel Verdú, Aiden Ehrenrich
Francis Ford Coppola’s Tetro, from his own screenplay (partially in Spanish with English subtitles), conveys a sense of his own life and career convulsing wildly between fulfillment and tragedy, triumph and debacle. Now 70, Mr. Coppola can look back on Read More
Herb & DorothyRunning Time 89 minutesDirected by Megumi SasakiStarring Herb and Dorthy Vogel
Megumi Sasaki’s Herb & Dorothy describes and amply illustrates the extraordinary saga of the Vogels—Herbert, a postal clerk, and Dorothy, a librarian—who double-handedly built one of the most important collections of Minimalist and Conceptual Art in history with their very modest salaries, beginning Read More
DeparturesRunning Time 131 minutesWritten by Kundo KoyamaDirected by Yojiro TakitaStarring Masahiro Motoki, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ryoko Hirosue, Kazuko Yoshiyuki
Yojiro Takita’s Departures (Okuribito), from the screenplay (in Japanese with English subtitles) by Kundo Kuyama, won last year’s Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in an upset victory in this category over the co-favorites, the Israeli-made Waltz Read More
Terminator SalvationRunning time 115 minutesWritten by John Brancato and Michael FerrisDirected by McGStarring Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Helena Bonham Carter
McG’s Terminator Salvation, from a story and screenplay by John Brancato and Michael Ferris, stipulates a post-nuclearized, post-apocalyptic America in the year 2018. Yes, 2018! That’s only nine years from now! I may actually live that Read More
Milton Glaser: To Inform and DelightRunning time 90 minutesDirected by Wendy Keys
Wendy Keys’ Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight unfolds as a labor of love and mutual respect between Ms. Keys and Mr. Glaser, onetime colleagues in the early ’70s on the Board of Directors of the International Design Conference in Aspen. Ms. Keys, a Read More
ManagementRunning time 93 minutesWritten and Directed by Stephen BelberStarring Jennifer Aniston, Steve Zahn, Woody Harrelson
Stephen Belber’s Management, from his own screenplay, is based on a one-act play he wrote as part of a projected series that took place in motel rooms. The series idea was abandoned, but the one-acter was eventually directed onstage by Mr. Read More
Summer HoursRunning time 103 minutesWritten and directed by Olivier AssayasStarring Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, Jérémie Renier
Olivier Assayas’ Summer Hours (L’Heure d’Été), from his own screenplay (in French with English subtitles), is curiously described by the 54-year-old writer-director of a dozen or more feature films as his “most Taiwanese film.” Mr. Assayas goes on to elaborate Read More
The WindowRunning time 85 minutesWritten by Carlos Sorín and Pedro MaizalDirected by Carlos SorínStarring Antonio Larreta
Carlos Sorín’s The Window (La Ventana), from a screenplay (in Spanish with English subtitles) by Mr. Sorín, in collaboration with Pedro Maizal, turns out to be a far more realistic and austere film than the work Mr. Sorín asserts inspired Read More
AdorationRunning time 100 minutesWritten and directed by Atom EgoyanStarring Scott Speedman, Arsinée Khanjian, Devon Bostick, Rachel Blanchard
Atom Egoyan’s Adoration, from his own screenplay, is the 48-year-old, Cairo-born, Armenian-Canadian writer-director’s 12th feature film in a 32-year career that has spanned several media and art forms, and many countries, and for which he has received worldwide honors. Read More
Jazz in the Diamond DistrictRunning time 84 minutesWritten by Lindsey Christian and Sia BarnesDirected by Lindsey ChristianStarring Monique Cameron, Erica Chamblee, Wood Harris
Lindsey Christian’s Jazz in the Diamond District, from a screenplay by Lindsey Christian and Sia Barnes, is based on a story by Erica Chamblee, with revisions by Erica Chamblee and Andre Read More
A Wink and a SmileRunning time 91 minutesDirected by Deirdre Timmons
Deirdre Timmons’ A Wink and a Smile purports to take us behind the velvet curtain of Seattle’s Academy of Burlesque to show us 10 “ordinary” women who take a six-week course in the art of burlesque dancing and strip-tease. Coming in all ages, shapes Read More
Luis Buñuel’s Viridiana (1961), with Sylvia Pinal, Fernando Rey, Francisco Rabal and Margarita Lozano, will be shown at Film Forum from Friday, April 24, through Thursday, April 30, with show times daily at 1, 2:50, 4:40, 6:30, 8:20 and 10:10. I first saw Viridiana on the last morning and evening of the 1961 Cannes Film Read More
RevancheRunning time 121 minutesWritten and directed by Götz SpielmannStarring Johannes Krisch, Irina Potapenko, Andreas Lust, Ursula Strauss
Götz Spielmann’s Revanche, from his own screenplay (in German with English subtitles), was the Austrian selection for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2009 Academy Awards. The picture begins on a very sordid and sensual note in Vienna’s red-light Read More
The SoloistRunning Time 109 minutesWritten by Susannah GrantDirected by Joe WrightStarring Robert Downey Jr., Jamie Foxx, Catherine Keener, Lisagay Hamilton
Joe Wright’s The Soloist, from the screenplay by Susannah Grant, is based on the book The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music, by Steve Lopez. The subtitle of the Read More
