Movies

Film (2015)
Written and directed by
Quentin Tarantino
With Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tim Roth , Bruce Dern, Channing Tatum
A very long and violent treatment in classic Tarantino style of a bunch of cowboys and bounty hunters in Wyoming sometime after the Civil War who congregate in a roadside cabin.

Film (2015)
Directed by J.J. Abrams
Screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan, J.J. Abrams, Michael Arndt
Based on characters created by George Lucas
With Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Lupita Nyong’o, Domhnall Gleeson, Anthony Daniels, Max von Sydow, Peter Mayhew
A continuation of the forty-year old film epic which hearkens back to the earliest installments in basic form while adding some new narrative touches.

Film (2015)
Documentary
in English and French with subtitles
Directed by Kent Jones
Kendall Square Cinema
Cambridge, MA
With Alfred Hitchcock, François Truffaut, Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, Wes Anderson, Richard Linklater, Olivier Assayas, Peter Bogdanovich, Arnaud Desplechin, James Gray, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Paul Schrader
An informative and touching account of the collaborative engagement between the two great film directors, when Hitchcock was in his sixties and Truffaut was in his thirties, with running commentary by some of today’s great directors.

Film (2014)
in Arabic with English subtitles
Directed by Naji Abu Nowar
Kendall Square Cinema, Cambridge, MA
Set in 1916 in Arabia, a film about a young boy who tags along behind his brother on a mission to guide a British soldier to a railway line and gets embroiled in military and tribal conflicts.

Film (2015)
Directed by Jay Roach
With Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Helen Mirren, Michael Stuhlbarg, Louis C.K. John Goodman
A very well done account of the life and career of Dalton Trumbo, the Hollywood screenwriter who was blacklisted for years in the 1950s during the Red Scare.