Новости за 28.09.2017

The film “Lucky” opens with a tortoise making its way across a patch of desert. Not long after that the actor Harry Dean Stanton walks into frame, announced by a pair of title cards that declare “Harry Dean Stanton is Lucky.”

The label brought a bubbly American touch to the Rue Saint-Honoré to mark its new address.

A surprisingly intimate and thoughtful examination of the life and career of one of the most successful and influential of filmmakers, "Spielberg" pulls back the curtain on the former boy wonder as he turns 70.

A man turns to tennis to cope with the death of his wife in the insubstantial and odd grief and sports dramedy “30-Love," co-written, directed by and starring Robert Cannon, whose character is credited only as "Kelly's husband."

Against the grain is the only way Laird Hamilton knows how to go. A dynamic, dominating personality, he became one of surfing's central figures despite refusing to compete professionally and he revolutionized the nature of the sport not once but twice by going in directions few people much cared...

The romantic adventure “Tam Cam: The Untold Story” begins like “Cinderella,” finishes à la “Beauty and the Beast” and in between runs the gamut of action-fantasy tropes with entertaining, if at times overly broad and narratively choppy, results.

What do acclaimed novelist Isabel Allende, Google co-founder Sergey Brin and actor Andy Garcia all have in common? Each resettled in the U.S. as refugees. Allende fled Chile after a CIA-backed coup when, ironically, Henry Kissinger, a refugee from Nazi Germany, served as secretary of State (and...

If you’re a straight woman, you’ve probably encountered a guy like our supposed hero Adam in “Literally, Right Before Aaron.” Played by Justin Long, he’s the type of guy who imagines himself a romantic from his first overly sexual come-on to when his appearance at your wedding threatens your marriage...

A rockfall on Yosemite National Park’s granite monolith El Capitan killed a British tourist and seriously injured his female companion, park officials said Thursday.

"American Made" is a smart, nervy film, a very modern entertainment made with energy, style and a fine sense of humor that keeps us amused until gradually, almost imperceptibly, the laughter starts to stick in our throats.

There’s scarcely a new or old horror movie cliché that goes unused in “Don’t Sleep,” a supernatural thriller that tries a little bit of everything — all competently, none memorably.

Though writer-director Jenna Mattison’s debut feature has a slim story and very little dialogue, she brings heft to her atmospheric horror exercise “The Sound” just by cranking up the bass.

Like the Syfy Films version of “Black Mirror,” “Realive” questions the relationship between our bodies, our minds and the technology-driven world we live in. It presents a sleek future, beautifully captured through lenses and filters that would make any Instagram aficionado tap “like.”

Refreshingly devoid of talking animals and anthropomorphic vehicles, Ann Marie Fleming’s “Window Horses” is a lovely surprise of a stirringly original animated feature.

A network of capillaries, a piece of shared flesh at their hips, an indefinable psychic bond — those are the points of connection between Viola and Daisy, the conjoined twins in writer-director Edoardo De Angelis' dark and lovely parable.

In the fractured fairy tale “Thirst Street,” micro-indie writer-director Nathan Silver (“Stinking Heaven”) turns a flight attendant’s Parisian fling into a psychodramatic peep show for the Polanski/Chabrol crowd.

In his first English-language feature, British Iranian filmmaker Rafi Pitts turns a coolly exasperated gaze on the business of national borders and their defense. Centering on a so-called green-card soldier and touching on the recently rescinded Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program,...

Hugh Hefner’s short-lived 1969-70 talk show, “Playboy After Dark,” ran for only two seasons, but it had a great ear for music.

In his feature debut “Heartstone,” Icelandic writer-director Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson takes the long way around to tell the small-scale story of the friendship between two pre-teen boys. Yet, despite its need for serious narrative compression, this remains an emotionally authentic, often poignant...

Weirdness abounds in “Welcome to Willits,” a self-conscious wannabe cult film that assembles a hodgepodge of its fledgling filmmakers’ wildest notions. Adapting an earlier short into their debut feature, the brother filmmaking team of writer Tim Ryan and director Trevor Ryan exhibit imagination,...

To the editor: Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions appears to speak from both sides of his mouth, upholding free speech on college campuses while denouncing speech he disagrees with by professional athletes. (“Jeff Sessions wades into debates on campus free speech and NFL protests,” Sept. 26)

Years ago in an undergraduate Shakespeare paper I posited that the lustful sisters of “King Lear,” Goneril and Regan, might have been affected by stages of the moon often mentioned in that play. “A bit far-fetched,” wrote my professor, dryly.

The Islamic State group on Thursday released what it said was a new audio recording of its top leader, Abu Bakr Baghdadi, in which he vows to continue fighting and lavishes praise on his jihadis despite their loss of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.

A whole lotta nothin’ goes on between the start and finish of “Different Flowers,” a wilted runaway-bride dramedy that could test the patience of even the most devoted chick-flick fans.