Film (2018)
Directed by Wash Westmoreland
With Keira Knightley, Dominic West
A pointed, well-crafted, and persuasive biopic about the talented late nineteenth-century French novelist.
Movies
Heads Up: America To Me
Television
10 part series documentary
Directed by Steve James
America To Me
Screening at Boston Public Library
September 13, 2018
Series premieres on the Starz network
on August 26, 2018
An incisive multipart documentary about implicit racism set in the Oak Park River Forest High School in suburban Chicago.
On Chesil Beach
Film (2018)
Directed by Dominic Cooke
Screenplay by Ian McEwan
Based on the novel by Ian McEwan
With Saoirse Ronan, Billy Howle
A beautifully done rendition of McEwan’s difficult narrative about a pair of newlyweds on their honeymoon.
Little Pink House
Film (2018)
Written and directed by
Courtney Balaker
Kendall Square Cinema
Cambridge, MA
With Catherine Keener
Based on a true story, an account of a single woman’s legal battle against governmental and commercial efforts to push her out of her home.
Godard Mon Amour (Le redoutable)
Film (2018)
Written and directed by
Michel Hazanavicius
Kendall Square Cinema
Cambridge, MA
An inventively offbeat biopic about the noted French film director Jean-Luc Godard and his transition to Maoist politics, told from the perspective of his former wife, Anne Wiazemsky.