So many new docs and so little time! Here is my second round of reviews of new documentaries screened at the DOC NYC film festival. I’ll be reviewing still ...
Herbert Gambill
The largest documentary film festival in the U.S., the DOC NYC Festival will screen over 200 films in various NYC locations from November 9 to 17. (Films can ...
The Washington Post reported this week that 2022 was a huge year for horror films, perhaps because of post-pandemic desires for cinematic shocks or maybe it’s ...
After 14-year-old Aurora Mardiganian escaped from the Armenian genocide in 1917 and moved to the U.S., a newspaper serialised her amazing story and two years ...
New York, NY (October 20, 2022) – A survey of the growing prominence and visibility ofwomen in film, the latest ACA Cinema Project series The Female Gaze: ...
(above: still from "Mickey Dogface," a short film directed by Zach Fleming, from the "Local Invasion" showcase.) It’s October which means pumpkin in ...
Before Japanese film director Mamoru Oshii made his international hit 1995 animated cyberpunk thriller “Ghost in the Shell,” he made “Angel’s Egg,” a ...
In Estonian folklore a “Kratt” is a mythical creature who will work around the clock for you. Once done with a task it says “Give me work!” and you had better ...
This Friday, October 7, the Japan Society of New York City will screen Hideo Nakata’s 1998 j-horror classic “Ringu” in their "monthly classics" series of ...
A friend of mine used to live in Manhattan’s legendary Chelsea Hotel and one day he got a call from Patti Smith. It turned out that he had been living in the ...
“Swerve,” a new short film by experimental and documentary filmmaker Lynne Sachs will debut this Sunday, June 26 as part of a second program of shorts at ...
In 1986 Juliet Bashore made a genre-defying documentary about the a lesbian couple working in the porn industry in San Francisco. “Kamikaze Hearts” has since ...