Film (2014)
Directed by George Clooney
With George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, John Goodman, Jean Dujardin, Hugh Bonneville, Bob Balaban
Near the end of World War II, a group of experts try to save great works of art from destruction: intentional, by the Nazis, and inadvertent, from Allied bombings.
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Dallas Buyers Club
Film (2013)
Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée
With Matthew McConaughey,
Jennifer Garner, Jared Leto
A roughly textured, but beautifully constructed, account of a rodeo rider’s attempt to survive AIDS in the 1980s by bucking the medical system. Matthew McConaughey’s performance is a tour de force.
The Invisible Woman
Film (2013)
Directed by Ralph Fiennes
Screenplay by Abi Morgan
Based on a book by Claire Tomalin
With Ralph Fiennes, Felicity Jones, Kristin Scott Thomas
A well done portrait of Charles Dickens and the young mistress with whom he was associated in the last years of his life.
The Past
Film (2013)
Written and directed by
Asghar Farhad
An overly complicated melodrama set in France involving a separated Iranian couple and various children and lovers.
August: Osage County
Film (2013)
Directed by John Wells
Screenplay by Tracy Letts
based on his play of the same name
With Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Chris Cooper, Ewan McGregor, Sam Shepard, Benedict Cumberbatch
A film treatment of the award winning play about a complex and distressed family from Oklahoma that comes together unexpectedly.