
Touch of Evil
Some of 2011’s stand-out film actors appear in “a video gallery of cinematic villainy” for New York Times Magazine.
Director: Alex Prager
Actors: Brad Pitt, Gary Oldman, George Clooney, Jessica Chastain, Kirsten Dunst, Mia Wasikowska, Michael Shannon, Rooney Mara, Ryan Gosling, Viola Davis
Country: United States
BPM (Beats per Minute)
Styx
Rike is forty, a successful doctor whose job demands everything of her. She intends to use her much-needed annual holiday to fulfill her long-cherished dream of sailing alone from Gibraltar…
The Verdict
Frank Galvin is a down-on-his-luck lawyer and reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing, when a former associate reminds him of his obligations in a medical malpractice suit by serving it…
Anime Supremacy!
The Sea of Trees
In Japan’s Aokigahara Forest, a troubled teacher meets a mysterious lost stranger who takes him on a life-changing journey of love and redemption.
The Food Club
Three longtime girlfriends from elementary school, very different women, have one thing in common: they are in the fall of their lives and they all feel how ruthless old age…
Undefeated
Lex ‘El Animal’ Vargas is a promising Portorican boxer in Queens, but lacks ambition to aim for the big career. That changes after his brother Paulie is accidentally shot dead…
City Across the River
Brooklyn youth Frank Cusack, good son and brother by day, is a gang member by night. The Dukes, seemingly likable dead-end-kids, are dangerously involved with racketeer Gaggsy Steens. Despite the…
Turn the River
A pool shark takes the ultimate gamble when she kidnaps her own son and flees her ex-husband.
Bitcon
A missing hard drive with hundreds of thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency and the issue of trust in the modern era.
Variety Lights
In Italy, Checco Dal Monte manages a troupe of traveling performers with plenty of heart but minimal talent. At a small town engagement, he encounters the starry-eyed, gorgeous Lily Antonelli,…