Gwyneth and Joaquin’s Brighton Beach Memoirs

Two Lovers
Running time 108 minutes
Written by Richard Menello and James Gray
Directed by James Gray
Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow, Vinessa Shaw, Moni Moshonov, Isabella Rossellini, Elias Koteas

On Valentine’s Day, date movies usually proliferate. This year, with so many slasher flicks, techno-thrillers and Read More

Joaquin and Talking

RESERVATION ROAD
Running Time 102 minutes
Written by Terry George and Jonathan Burnham Schwartz
Directed by Terry George
Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Jennifer Connolly, Mark Ruffalo and Mira Sorvino

Reservation Road is a suspenseful story of loss and revenge, about the different roads taken by two fathers after a tragic hit-and-run Read More

A Subway Story, Too Good to Be True

James Gray’s The Yards , from a screenplay by Mr. Gray and Matt Reeves, continues on the soulful, downbeat path across the outer boroughs that the then 24-year-old Mr. Gray marked back in 1994 with his first film, Little Odessa . In that one, his locale was Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach with its largely Russian population. Read More