Winner of the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival,
Persepolis is an animated featured based on the autobiographical graphic novels of Marjane Satrapi. Satrapi, precocious and outspoken, grew up wearing sneakers and beating up boys. When she was ten years old, her world changed overnight. Girls and boys had to use different doors to [...]
with writer/director Tamara Jenkins and David Edelstein
Having wriggled their way out from beneath their father’s domineering thumb, the two Savage siblings are now firmly cocooned in their own complicated lives. Wendy (Laura Linney) is a struggling East Village playwright and. Jon (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is a neurotic college professor writing books on obscure subjects [...]
Starting Out in the Evening, critically acclaimed at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, tells the story of 70-year-old novelist Leonard Schiller (Frank Langlella) and his unlikely meeting with a young graduate student (Lauren Ambrose) writing a thesis on his work. Leonard, whose books are out of print and whose “work-in-progress� has been languishing, quickly falls [...]
with writer/director Tamara Jenkins
Beverly Hills, known for Rodeo Drive, posh hotels, and celebrity mansions, also has a wrong side of the tracks, and there lives the nomadic Abramowitz family. Single father Murray (Alan Arkin) is determined to keep his kids in California’s most glamorous ZIP code, even if only on the fringes. “Furniture is [...]
with director Nick Broomfield
Nick Broomfield’s latest film is a highly realistic, fictional rendering of an incident that took place in the village of Haditha, Iraq, where much of the insurgency has taken place. In November 2005, a roadside explosive killed one US Marine and wounded two others. Enraged fellow Marines exacted revenge by killing twenty-four [...]
