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The Struggle
Martha Gellhorn (Nicole Kidman) meets Ernest Hemingway (Clive Owen) during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s in Philip Kaufman's Hemingway & Gellhorn,
and the two start on their way to becoming one of the most famous
literary couples in American history. As they're both in Spain,
reporting on the struggle against fascism to gain international support,
Gellhorn's ambitions are squarely in line with the rambunctious and
insatiable Hemingway as they contend with Soviets (Robert Duvall),
revolutionaries, and the grim realities of war... but when the conflict
ends, their romance has to find another source of passion, excitement,
and strife to keep them together. With David Strathairn, Molly Parker, and Joan Chen. On DVD and Blu Ray.18-year-old Venkatesh Chavan works odd jobs, struggling to get by in Panjim, India in Chris Smith's The Pool when he becomes enchanted by the pristine swimming pool on the other side of a wealthy estate's wall. He follows and gets to know the pool's owners-- a wealthy father dedicated to gardening and his book obsessed daughter-- and Chavan begins to explore the luxury of the pool, and the meaning of the walls.
Other Realities
David Wong isn't Chinese, he just changed his name to make himself harder to find in Don Coscarelli's John Dies at the End. He sits down to tell a reporter (Paul Giamatti)
the story of how he and his best friend John became key players in the
end of the world due to a drug called "soy sauce," but who could
possibly believe David's story about meat monsters, sentient black ooze,
hero dogs, television psychics (Clancy Brown), interdimensional aliens (Doug Jones), phantom limbs, arachnicide, and a biological supercomputer named Korrok? On DVD and Blu Ray.
Kiriko (Hikari Mitsushi) is shocked when her 10-year-old brother Daigo kills a rabbit in Takashi Shimizu's Tormented.
Their mother is gone and their father, a book illustrator, spends more
time sketching fantasy lands than dealing with his real-world family, so
only Kiriko is there to witness Daigo's withdrawal from reality. Sullen
and withdrawn, bullied at school, the boy is slowly drawn into other
worlds by the vision of his unexplained, violent act.
Real World
Finishing the project he had planned with choreographer Pina Bausch before her death, director Wim Wenders' Pina stages several of her most acclaimed compositions for film. Distributed by the Criterion Collection in DVD, Blu Ray, and 3D Blu,
the film recounts Pina's career and achievements in both performances
of her pieces, archive footage, and interviews to celebrate one of the
form's legendary figures.Sentenced to six years and prison and banned from making movies for the next 20 years, Iranian director Jafar Panahi enlists the help of a documentary filmmaker to tell his story in This Is Not a Film. Laying out a story he had already written (Panahi is forbidden to write) and not technically directing (with no actors, sets, or staging), he assembles a courageous story that could never be filmed under Iran's current censorship laws... which is only available in the west because This Is Not a Film was smuggled into France on a USB thumb drive hidden in a cake.
Father and son Michel and Sebastien Bras run a kitchen in the south of France in Step Up to the Plate, treating each dish as a serious concern that requires careful thought and consideration. Not unlike Jiro Dreams of Sushi, the film explores the artistry of dedicated chefs and the legacy a master will leave to his son.
New this week in our TV New Releases:
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Dirk Gently | Based on the novels by Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's (Stephen Mangan) abstract private investigation technique of exploring "the interconnectedness of all things" might be a con, but amidst theories of time travel, Pentagon conspiracies, and sentient machines... he does get results. | |
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In Plain Sight Season 5 |
Marshall Mary Shannon (Mary McCormack) returns from maternity leave to continue to serve the members of Witness Protection, but has to split her attention with her family, in the fifth and final season. | |
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