Film (2013)
Directed by Fred Schepisi
With Clive Owen, Juliette Binoche
Kendall Square Cinema
Cambridge, MA
A romantic comedy about two middle-aged prep school teachers, a writer and a painter, both compromised by illness, who passionately challenge their students about the relative merits of their chosen media.
Movies
Chinese Puzzle
Film (2013)
Written and directed by
Cédric Klapisch
With Romain Duris and
Audrey Tautou
A charmingly chaotic tale about a devoted forty year old French father who follows the American wife who abandons him to New York to be near their children.
The Immigrant
Film (2013)
Directed by James Gray
With Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Renner
Kendall Square Cinema
A melodramatic period piece about a Polish immigrant in New York in the 1920s.
The Double
Film (2013)
Written and directed by
Richard Ayoade
With Jesse Eisenberg, Mia Wasikowska, Wallace Shawn
An adeptly and cleverly done adaptation of the Dostoevsky novella of the same name, with deft performances by its two stars.
Chef
Film (2014)
Written and directed by
Jon Favreau
Kendall Square Cinema
Cambridge, MA
With Jon Favreau, Emjay Anthony, John Leguizamo, Scarlett Johansson, Dustin Hoffman, Sofía Vergara, Oliver Platt, Robert Downey Jr.
A harmlessly amusing story of a chef in a fancy restaurant who, too earnest to be constrained by his current job, takes to the road, literally and figuratively.