TV and film

Watch: Before Midnight

Directed by Richard Linklater (Sony Pictures, 2013) What might we learn if we could watch a relationship develop over a lifetime? Before Midnight, the third...

Watch: Sign Painters

By Faythe Levine & Sam Macon (Radar Studios, 2013) A commercial building in my neighborhood recently underwent renovations to transform the space into a...

Watch: No

Directed by Pablo Larraín (Sony Pictures, 2012) Topple a dictator with a rainbow and a jingle? Lash back against oppression with candy-coated images and...

Watch: To the Wonder

Directed by Terrence Malick (Redbud Pictures, 2013) Over the course of 40 years auteur filmmaker Terrence Malick has made just five feature films. Yet these...

Watch: Quartet

Directed by Dustin Hoffman (Weinstein Company, 2012) Imagine a kindergarten full of wildly talented octogenarians preparing to put on a school musical and you...

Watch: Promised Land

Directed by Gus Van Sant (Focus Features, 2013) The film Promised Land asks the question: Who is the bad guy? Is it the big, greedy company that wants to...

Watch: Amour

Directed by Michael Haneke (2012, Austria) A pigeon flies through an open window of an elderly couple’s apartment. An aging piano teacher, partially...

Watch: A Royal Affair

Directed by Nikolaj Arcel (Magnolia Pictures, 2012) Danish director Nikolaj Arcel’s historical romance, nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language...

Watch: Lincoln

Directed by Steven Spielberg (DreamWorks, 2012) Abraham Lincoln is one of the most famous figures in American history and one of its most universally beloved...

Watch: Flight

Flight Directed by Robert Zemeckis (Paramount, 2012) Ernest Hemingway wrote that courage was “grace under pressure,” and in Flight director Robert Zemeckis has...