Pohland - working with an impressive script by Oren Moverman and Michael A Lerner - manages to orchestrate a musical path between the double storyline that finds unity through the creative process.
A look at two periods of the life of Beach Boy Brian Wilson.
An on-paper melodrama imbued with musical energy and comical mischief by an excellent ensemble cast.
The film recounts a romantic obsession that spans several decades. In a poor Shanxi Province village, six-year old Tiedan falls in love with May, the beautiful neighbor who practices a traditional form of singing, Er-ren-tai, and this love will never die.
The comedy shifts and jumps with ease from the wintry beach to the pool and into our hearts due to the acute timing of the performances.
Luxury hotel. Luxury clientele. Irritable staff. A couple who might fall in love, or they might leave their relationship in its raw state – like the titular steaks.
Non-car people will find themselves forced into the position of disengaged anthropologist, observing all the vehicular bump and grind without gaining any real insight or emotional connection from the experience.
Eric Bana's debut documentary traces his love affair with his Ford XB Falcon Coupe.
There is smoke, there is a cauldron, there is an altar of sorts and there is a not very Grand Wizard who looks like someone who has crawled out from inside a bin lorry.
Sixties-style film sees a witch use spells to win the hearts of men.
Through the course of the film, we will come to know many of the patients there for who they really are, humans – no different from anyone else except for their medical problems, which so many of us are blessed to avoid.
Documentary about a radio show produced by patients at a Buenos Aires psychiatric hospital.
Although presenting a multifaceted view of the winners and losers behind the millions (or lack of them), it's an overwhelmingly upbeat, positive experience.
The story of what happens when ordinary people hit the lottery jackpot.
Those who like films to start at A, proceed through B and end at C will find Torres' multi-layered, cluttered narrative difficult to contend with but those that prefer to disappear into a film without a road map will find plenty to enjoy.
As a film crew invades his small town home, a teenager hears that his father is a tikbalang - a half horse creature - and sets out on a magical voyage of discovery.
Lulu And Jimi certainly shares with Lynch a level of surrealism and an ability to switch mood dramatically from the candy floss highs of love to much darker territory.
Reyes establishes a sense of the well-worn ritual that Lupe has acclimatised to, as well as showcasing the restraints on his existence due to poverty and his outsider status.
Portrait of a Mexican migrant who spent his life working in California, away from his family back home.
At the midway point, the screenplay begins to flap about all over the place but Smoczynska's firm, high-energy directing - including an extras-laden shopping centre extravaganza - doesn't stop to let you consider them for too long.
A pair of mermaid sisters run into trouble when one of them falls for a human.
The film is directed with an air of dignity and the performances are deserving of eternal praise, but as a child of the movies, I was sucked helplessly into a comatose state of boredom.
