“All is Lost” opens Friday at Sundance Cinemas. PG-13, 1:46, four stars out of four.
Robert Redford says very few words in “All is Lost,” and two of them are “I’m sorry,” repeated three times in a single message delivered in voiceover at the beginning of the film.
“Let the Fire Burn” screens at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 7, at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art as part of its Spotlight Cinema series. Not rated, 1:35, three and a half stars out of four.
Jason Osder’s documentary “Let the Fire Burn” opens with what looks like some kind of natural disaster, a massive inferno that engulfed a Philadelphia neighborhood in 1985, destroying 61 homes and killing 11 people, five of them children.
Pick of the week: “Blancanieves”: My full review is here. This sumptuous Spanish film reimagines the Snow White legend as a silent black-and-white film set in the world of toreadors. If you liked “The Artist,” you’ll love this.
“I want to thank Tales for being the kind of festival that will play both ‘Chasing Ice’ and ‘Planet of the Apes,'” filmmaker and Tales From Planet Earth film festival programmer Alex Rivera said (according to the festival’s Twitter feed) on the festival’s opening night on Friday.
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“Ender’s Game” (Point, Eastgate, Star Cinema, Cinema Cafe) — My full review is here. Audiences who expect a sci-fi action movie might be surprised to be served up a thought-provoking morality play instead, as a gifted boy is trained to lead Earth forces against an alien threat.
“Ender’s Game” opens Friday in Madison at Point, Eastgate, Star Cinema and Cinema Cafe. PG-13, 1:54, three stars out of four.
“Children in the flower of youth,
Heart in heart, and hand in hand,
Ignorant of what helps or harms,
Without armor, without arms,
Journeying to the Holy Land!”
–Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Children’s Crusade”
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