Film (2013)
Directed by Hilla Medalia
A documentary about the return to Jaffa (Israel) after many years of Pierre Dulaine, born there of a Palestinian mother and a British father, to lead workshops in ballroom dancing for Israeli Jewish and Palestinian children.
Alan Partridge
Film (2013)
Directed by Declan Lowney
Kendall Square Cinema,
Cambridge, MA
With Steve Coogan
A black comedy about a self-absorbed radio disk jockey caught up in a hostage crisis.
Only Lovers Left Alive
Film (2013)
Written and directed by
Jim Jarmusch
With Tom Hiddleston, Tilda Swinton, Mia Wasikowska, John Hurt
A slow-moving horror film set in the present time, featuring an ageless romance between two extremely cool vampires named Adam and Eve.
The Lunchbox
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.
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.