25 August 2015

New to the Queue

Adding heft ...

The provocative story of a 15-year-old girl sleeping with her mom's boyfriend, "Diary of a Teenage Girl."

Bobcat Goldthwait turns to the documentary format to tell the story of a comedic mentor, "Call Me Lucky."

A wacky comedy about two women trying to get to the beach, starring another daughter of Chris Elliott, "Fort Tilden."

A friend tees up Hubert Sauper's latest documentary, "We Come as Friends." She writes: "'Darwin's Nightmare,' if I recall correctly, featured war-mongering, corruption, sexual exploitation/abuse, environmental pillage, and general despair. Great film. This one, per the snippet interview I heard with the director yesterday, features environmental pillage, war-mongering, human cruelty, and general despair emerging from colonialist capitalism. Obviously, documentary films change the world. Look how much has changed in Africa since 'Darwin's Nightmare.'"

Sitting through a Paul Weitz film might be worth it for Lily Tomlin and some intergenerational humor in "Grandma."

Joe Swanberg doesn't let up, and his latest has an all-star hipster cast, so we will apprehensively take a peek at "Digging for Fire."

A documentary about the legendary motorcycle stuntman, "Being Evel."

Another documentary, this one about riding the rails in China, "Iron Ministry."

Two brothers deal with love and relationships in the indie debut of writer/director John Magary, "The Mend."
 

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