Posts Tagged ‘rashomon’

This Week in Repertory Film: Majesteit, Enter the Void, The Marquise of O, Rashomon

Thursday: Majesteit at West End Cinema
If this high-strung political drama looks familiar, well, it's because it's not the first recent film about an aging, but steely-resolved European monarch who finds herself trapped between the traditions of royalty, contemporary politics, and family turmoil. Though an English-subtitled trailer was unavailable, Majesteit—a story about Queen Beatrix of the [...]

In Theaters This Week

A week dominated by death and destruction — some for your amusement, some to punch you in the gut.
The Messenger: Woody Harrelson and Ben Foster deliver outstanding performances as two soldiers assigned to the Army's casualty-notification service.
2012: At nearly two hours and 40 minutes, Roland Emmerich's disaster porn about the end of the world plays [...]