"Invention," an indie film combining real footage and fictional narrative to create a unique, mysterious and lightly comical meta-portrait of a woman's grief over her dead father, plays for one week at Metrograph In Theater beginning this Friday, April 18. Go here for showtimes and ticket information.
Callie Hernandez stars as "Carrie Fernandez" (some characters erroneously refer to her by her real name, one of...
Here are two more must-see films which will screen at the Museum of the Moving Image's First Look Festival. Go here for showtimes and tickets.
There are no actual shipwrecks in Deniz Eroglu's wonderfully imaginative film "The Shipwrecked Triptych." Instead the the term is a metaphor for when a person's shelter becomes lost or is precarious. Three narratives, set in different times, present eerie and...
34-year-old Lucy Kerr’s fascinating debut feature film “Family Portrait” (which won major awards at the recent Locarno Festival in Switzerland) is a “portrait” in...
The two main characters in Joel Potrykus’s “Vulcanizadora” were introduced ten years ago in his hilarious 2014 film “Buzzard.” Once again Potrykus plays Marty...
“Emergent City” documents the struggle of longtime residents of the Sunset Park neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York to stop the Jamestown investment group from...
There are so many documentaries which profile a single person–an artist, musician, writer, politician–or group of allied people that I find it useful to...
When Americans think of cheese it is usually cheese burgers or those horrible cellulose “cheesy poofs” beloved by Cartman in “South Park.” Orange, mild...
(above: "Daddio")
The Tribeca Film Festival (June 5-16) is already underway. The festival keeps expanding: more venues, more genres. It’s not just films (narrative, documentary,...
It’s very fitting that the song accompanying the end credits of the documentary “Flipside” is “Unsatisfied,” The Replacements’ 1984 anthem to teen angst. Hearing...
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...
