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    Woodstock Film Festival 2026: My Journal

    I got a press pass for the Woodstock Film Festival and my friend Adam Schartoff (host of the great–nearing 1000 episodes!--Filmwax podcast, WKZE DJ and a programmer for the Woodstock Film Festival) invited me to stay with him while I attended it. Here is my diary of my four days at what turned out to be one of the most fun and intimate film...

    Every Film & TV Series I Watched in 2025

    FILMS I SAW IN 2025 (unless dated, released this year) The Feeling That the Time For Doing Something Has Passed (2023) My First Film (2024) The Damned (2024) A Real Pain (2024) Bigger Than Life (1956) The Andersonville Trial (1970) His Girl Friday (1940) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) Sherlock Holmes: The Secret Weapon (1942) The Spider Woman (1944) The Woman in Green (1945) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) Destination Tokyo (1943) Dressed to Kill (1946) Terror...
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    “The Man Who Saves The World?” Doc About Legendary Peacemaker at Cinema Village 10/24

    Patrick McCollum has filled his 75 years of life with a colorful assortment of occupations: jewelry designer for UK royalty, kung fu instructor, carnival...

    “Naked Ambition” Doc Celebrates Career of Playboy Photographer Bunny Yeager

    Overlooked pioneer Bunny Yeager left her modeling career to start a highly successful business as a pinup photographer. Once called "the world's prettiest photographer,"...

    “AngelHeaded Hipster” in Theaters August 8

    Glam rock pioneer Marc Bolan only lived to be 29 yet managed to produce some of the most memorable rock music ever recorded, including...

    Tribeca Film Festival 2025: Documentaries & Shorts

    Suzannah Herbert’s "Natchez" deservedly won the best documentary award at last week's Tribeca Film Festival. It's a fun and trenchant but never preachy analysis...

    DOC NYC 2024: “My Sweet Land,” “Yalla Parkour” and more

    Here are brief reviews of some of my favorite films from this month's DOC NYC festival. "My Sweet Land" is a briskly paced, beautifully edited...

    “My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock” at the Quad, 10/25

    Mark Cousins, director of the landmark series "The Story of Film: An Odyssey," lets the master of suspense tell his own story in the...

    Sublime, Poetic Documentary “Happy Campers” Streaming Now

    In the 1960's my maternal grandmother lived alone in a small trailer by the yacht basin in Carolina Beach, North Carolina. My mother often...

    Bread & Oysters: “Mother of All Lies” at Alamo Drafthouse Liberty & “Holding Back The Tide” at DCTV Firehouse Sept. 6

    Two must-see documentaries open in New York City this Friday, September 6. "Mother of All Lies" is a beautiful and powerfully moving Moroccan film...

    “#Untruth: The Psychology Of Trumpism” streams Sept. 3

    A follow-up to the 2020 documentary "#Unfit: The Psychology Of Donald Trump," "#Untruth: The Psychology Of Trumpism" continues to examine the authoritarian strategy and...

    “Modernism, Inc.” opens at IFC NYC July 19

    "Modernism, Inc." is a new documentary about legendary American designer and architect Eliot Noyes. You don’t have to be a fan of mid-century modernism,...

    “Scala” at the Metrograph NYC July 19

    “Scala” tells the story of a beloved London repertory movie theater with tremendous affection and humor by the people who worked there and the...

    “Made in England: The Films of Michael Powell and Emiric Pressberger” opens July 12 at The Quad in NYC

    Anytime Martin Scorsese talks film I’m glued to the screen. If you’ve seen his own documentaries “A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American...