Beginning this Thursday, March 22, NYC’s Metrograph Theater is presenting a restored version of “My Heart Is That Eternal Rose,” an important and influential 1989 Hong Kong action film. Go here for more details and ticket information.
The film is directed by Patrick Tam, who began directing and editing films in 1980. He is regarded as the mentor of the great Wong Kar-Wai, and edited...
Alison Tavel had worked as a touring crew member for musicians Grace Potter, Beck, and Jenny Lewis and directed a handful of music videos ,when in her mid-twenties she decided to find out more about her late dad, who died just weeks after her birth. Don Tavel, she had been told, had invented the synthesizer! Her first discovery was that, no, Robert Moog is...
(above: Baishô Chieko in “Plan 75”)
Hayakawa Chie’s 2022 film “Plan 75” depicts a dystopian near future Japan in which the growing numbers of elderly...
“RIALTO AT 25” is a celebration of the 25th anniversary of Rialto Pictures, a distributor whose re-releases of international classics have been distinguished by...
(above: Sam Harkness in “Sam Now”)
My critical output has been hampered recently by my paying gigs and personal writing projects so here are capsule...
(above: Kristine Kujath Thorp in "Sick of Myself")
Boston’s Underground Film Festival continues until March 26 and I’ve been able to catch four excellent features...
