Movies

Film (2016)
Documentary
Directed by Josh Kriegman and
Elyse Steinberg
Kendall Square Cinema
Cambridge, MA
A scrappy, strangely fun, documentary about political tragedy, tracing once rising star Anthony Weiner through his desperate mayoral campaign in 2013 in the wake of a sexting scandal which forced his resignation in 2011 from the U.S. Congress after serving six terms as a Representative from New York City.

Film (2015)
Written and directed by
Yuval Delshad
National Center for Jewish Film
19th Annual Film Festival
West Newton Cinema, Newton, MA
May 4-22, 2016
An affecting drama about an Israeli-Iranian family in which a father’s expectations that his young son will follow him into business lead to complications.

Film (2016)
Written and directed by Matt Brown
based on The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan (1992)
by Robert Kanigel
Kendall Square Cinema
Cambridge, MA
With Jeremy Irons, Dev Patel
A beautifully executed and moving biopic about the Indian mathematical genius S. Ramanujan, who wrote distinguished mathematician G.H. Hardy in 1913 from Madras, and wound up going to Cambridge, England and proving his mettle there.

Film (2016)
Written and directed by
Richard Linklater
Now in college and still playing baseball, the young hero of Linklater’s earlier Dazed and Confused grows up a bit.