Lebanese director Nadine Labaki’s film is structured around an unlikely court hearing in Beirut, but the rest of it is grimly realistic in its depiction of the plight of the poor who are bereft of any legal papers or ID. Ms. Labaki gives us a picture of the needy of the city every bit as …
Kill Your Darlings (2013)
Set in the early 1940s, this is the story of how Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William S Burroughs met at Columbia Un. and began what was to become The Beat Generation. It is also the tale of a murder that implicated them all.