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LAUREL CANYON. Frances McDormand plays against type in Laurel Canyon, a well-crafted family dramedy by director Lisa Cholodenko. McDormand, the overbearing mom in Almost Famous, this time plays the type of fast-moving music producer scorned by her character in Cameron Crowe’s amusing 2000 cult favorite...
NOWHERE IN AFRICA. This year’s Oscar winner for best foreign film sheds new light on the exodus of one small group German Jewish refugees in the late 1930s. It’s the tale of Walter Redlich, a Jewish lawyer who goes to Africa to live with...
XX/XY. This decade-spanning tale of romance, which competed at Sundance last year, explores the three-way relationship that a trio of collegians enjoyed in the nineties before flashing forward to examine what the three have gone on to achieve—or not achieve—ten years later...
THE MAN WITHOUT A PAST. By all accounts, this new offering from veteran Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismaki is a bizarre, eclectic offering, trafficking heavily in dark humor and kitschy music. Kaurismaki focuses his story on an injured, amnesia-addled man who falls in love with the woman who...
DIVINE INTERVENTION. Palestinian director-writer Elia Suleiman addresses the strife between his homeland and Israel in this deliberately composed, frequently absurd comedy. Suleiman also plays the film’s quiet protagonist, unimaginatively named E.S. This is not to say that Suleiman does not let his...