Film (2013)
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
With Rooney Mara, Jude Law, Catherine Zeta-Jones
A psychological thriller with psychiatrists, patients and lawyers doing such an elaborately choreographed narrative tango it is hard to see them go by.
Movies
Oscar Nominated Short Films (2013)
Film
The array of short subject films, in the categories of live action and animation, up for Academy Awards this year.
Rust and Bone
Film (2012)
Directed by Jacques Audiard
With Marion Cotillard
and Matthias Schoenaerts
An offbeat love story about a beautiful French orca trainer who confronts a serious personal challenge, and a down and out Belgian fistfighter with a young child.
Amour
Film (2012)
Written and directed
by Michael Haneke
With Jean-Louis Trintignant,
Emmanuelle Riva,
Isabelle Huppert
Kendall Square Cinema
Cambridge, MA
A painstaking and deliberate account of the life, and decline, of an aged Parisian couple.
Les Misérables
Film (2012)
Directed by Tom Hooper
Book by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil
Based on the novel by Victor Hugo
With Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Sacha Baron Cohen, Helena Bonham Carter,
A long, but entertaining and quite moving, cinematic reproduction of the blockbuster musical based on the Victor Hugo novel of 1862, starring a lot of lot of big names singing on their own steam, some surprisingly well.