Film (2013)
Written and directed by
Ritesh Batra
With Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur, Nawazuddin Siddiqui
A superbly written and directed vignette about an oddly aligned pair in Mumbai, India – a distressed and neglected housewife and an older, widowed office worker – who begin to communicate through notes passed in a misdirected lunchbox.
Movies
Le Weekend
Film (2013)
Directed by Roger Michell
Screenplay by Hanif Kureishi
With Lindsay Duncan, Jim Broadbent, Jeff Goldblum
A well-intentioned take on a British couple well into middle age on a Parisian fling, seasoned with strong doses of both realism and flights of fancy which sometimes mix and sometimes don’t.
William Kentridge:
The Refusal of Time
Gallery Installation (2012)
by William Kentridge
February 5 – May 4, 2014
Institute of Contemporary Art
Boston, MA
A unique, visionary, pleasantly wild and compelling installation, composed of film and machinery, on the theme of time.
The Railway Man
Film (2014)
Directed by Jonathan Teplitzky
Screenplay by
Frank Cottrell Boyce
and Andy Paterson
Based on a book by Eric Lomax
With Jeremy Irvine, Colin Firth,
Stellan Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman,
Tanroh Ishida, Hiroyuki Sanada
A moving, well-crafted film about a British soldier, confined in a Japanese prison camp during World War II, who decades later returns to the site of his internment.
Finding Vivian Maier
Film (2013)
Written and directed by
John Maloof and Charlie Siskel
Kendall Square Cinema
Cambridge, MA
A moving, fascinating and beautifully crafted documentary about a lifelong nanny who, completely unrecognized during her lifetime, turned out to have been a first-rate art photographer.