{"id":3019,"date":"2015-04-01T14:02:13","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T14:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/home\/?p=3019"},"modified":"2015-04-01T14:02:13","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T14:02:13","slug":"aprils-essential-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/aprils-essential-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Clouds of Sils Maria, Ned Rifle, The Salt of the Earth and more: April&#8217;s Essential Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we slowly enter the first full month of Spring, we highlight some of the essential indie movies hitting theaters this month, including Olivier Assayas\u2019 complex <em>Clouds of Sils Maria<\/em> and Wim Wenders\u2019 touching celebration of Brazilian photographer Sebasti\u00e3o Salgado. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Clouds of Sils Maria<\/strong><br \/>\nDirector: Olivier Assayas<br \/>\nStarring: Chloe Grace Moretz, Kristen Stewart, Juliette Binoche, Brady Corbet, Angela Winkler<\/p>\n<p><em>Opens April 10<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Juliette Binoche turns in an affecting performance as a successful, but ageing, actress, whose relationship with her younger assistant (Kristen Stewart) leads to a deep inner conflict as she is faced  with what she is perceiving as a younger version of herself (Chloe Grace Moretz). Oliver Assayas crafted a well-executed movie of strong, complex female characters that stays long after the closing credits have rolled.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MbjSHXsv1EU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Salt of the Earth<\/strong><br \/>\nDirector: \u00a0Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Wim Wenders<br \/>\nCast: Sebasti\u00e3o Salgado<\/p>\n<p><em>In Cinemas Now<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In Wim Wenders\u2019 documentary, the life of Brazilian photographer Sebasti\u00e3o Salgado is captured with tasteful respect, so much so that the denouement, tragic as it is, becomes but another of Salgao\u2019s tremendous shows of humanity.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OivMlWXtWpY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>True Story<\/strong><br \/>\nDirector: Rupert Goold<br \/>\nCast: James Franco, Jonah Hill, Felicity Jones, Ethan Suplee, Gretchen Mol, Robert John Burke, Maria Dizzia<\/p>\n<p><em>Opens April 17<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After premiering to general acclaim at Sundance, Rupert Goold\u2019s cat-and-mouse drama hits theaters this month, and there\u2019s reasons to be excited: Jonah Hill, a disgraced New York Times reporter, and James Franco, a murderer who has taken on Hill\u2019s identity face-off in this intense, and unusual, crime story that\u2019s based on true events.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y_NiP_bqlns\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Felix and Meira<\/strong><br \/>\nDirector: Maxime Giroux<br \/>\nCast: Hadas Yaron, Martin Dubreuil, Luzer Twersky, Anne-\u00c9lisabeth Boss\u00e9<\/p>\n<p><em>Opens April 17<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A cross-cultural romance between Meira, a Hasidic Jewish mother and Felix, a young Canadian man who is mourning the loss of his estranged father, is at the center of Maxime Giroux\u2019 <em>Felix and Meira<\/em>. Meira\u2019s rebellion against the strict religious structures of her faith and Felix\u2019 attempts at finding deeper meaning in loss is what brings the two together, but romance in Montreal\u2019s Mile End is not easy for the two. The film was awarded Best Canadian Feature at the Toronto Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/obC5MAJkm-w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ned Rifle<\/strong><br \/>\nDirector: Hal Hartley<br \/>\nCast: Aubrey Plaza, Parker Posey, Liam Aiken, Martin Donovan<\/p>\n<p><em>Opens April 1<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ned Rifle<\/em> suitably played on Friday 13th at SXSW last month. The third and final installation in the trilogy that started with 1997\u2019s <em>Henry Fool<\/em>, <em>Ned Rifle<\/em> wraps the project with what brings to mind <em>Boyhood<\/em>\u2018s 12-year gestation period: Liam Aiken is still involved, and this time he\u2019s determined to kill his father for allegedly ruining his mother Fay Grim\u2019s (Parker Posey) life. Along the way, he encounters the unsavoury but determined Susan (Aubrey Plaza) and things get fun.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OTGs1V-KzK0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we slowly enter the first full month of Spring, we highlight some of the essential indie movies hitting theaters this<\/p>\n\t\t<div class=\"more-link-holder\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/aprils-essential-movies\/\"><span class=\"more-link-span\">read<\/span><svg version=\"1.1\" class=\"mauer-narrator-svg-arrow\" xmlns:cc=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/ns#\" xmlns:inkscape=\"http:\/\/www.inkscape.org\/namespaces\/inkscape\" xmlns:sodipodi=\"http:\/\/sodipodi.sourceforge.net\/DTD\/sodipodi-0.dtd\" xmlns:rdf=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/02\/22-rdf-syntax-ns#\" xmlns:svg=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:dc=\"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/elements\/1.1\/\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" x=\"0px\" y=\"0px\" viewBox=\"-255 334 62 36\"style=\"enable-background:new -255 334 62 36;\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><g transform=\"translate(0,-952.36218)\"><path d=\"M-193.2,1303.7l-16-17c-0.4-0.4-1-0.4-1.4,0c-0.4,0.4-0.4,1,0,1.4l14.4,15.3H-254c-0.6,0-1,0.4-1,1c0,0.6,0.4,1,1,1h57.7 l-14.4,15.3c-0.4,0.4-0.3,1.1,0,1.4c0.4,0.4,1,0.4,1.4,0l16-17C-192.9,1304.6-193,1304-193.2,1303.7L-193.2,1303.7z\"\/><\/g><\/svg><\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25],"tags":[147,148,149],"class_list":["post-3019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film","tag-clouds-of-sils-maria","tag-juliette-binoche","tag-kristen-stewart"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paoQFa-MH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}