Joseph, Yassin, and their families, live on opposite sides of the Israeli-Palestinian divide. Joseph is the dreamy, artistic son of a high-ranking Israeli officer and a French-born doctor, emerging from a cozy, privileged adolescence and preparing for his own military service. A routine blood test shows that he cannot be his parents’ child, and further [...]

Called an “unparalleled sensory experience,” Samsara brings together award-winning director Ron Fricke and producer Mark Magidson to create a new masterpiece. The word samsara is Sanskrit, meaning “the ever turning wheel of life.” The filmmakers address this idea through their exploration of the interconnection that runs through our lives. The film transports the viewer to [...]

The feature directorial debut of writer Nicholas Jarecki, Arbitrage, is a taut and alluring suspense thriller about love, loyalty, and high finance. We first meet New York hedge-fund magnate Robert Miller (Richard Gere) on the eve of his 60th birthday. He appears the very portrait of success in American business and family life, but behind [...]

Trishna lives with her family in a village in Rajasthan, India’s largest state. As the eldest daughter, she works in a nearby resort to help pay the bills. Jay (Riz Ahmed) is the wealthy son of a property developer. When he takes up managing a resort at his father’s request, he meets Trishna at a [...]

In Woody Allen’s ensemble comedy To Rome With Love, various lives intersect in the Italian city. The characters include architect John (Alec Baldwin), a young man (Jesse Eisenberg) in love with his girlfriend’s best friend, an opera director (Woody Allen) who finds an undiscovered talent in an unexpected place, and Leopoldo (Roberto Benigni), who inadvertently [...]

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel follows a group of British retirees who decide to “outsource” their retirement to less expensive and seemingly exotic India. Enticed by advertisements for the newly restored Marigold Hotel and bolstered with visions of a life of leisure, they arrive to find the palace a shell of its former self. Though [...]