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    Restored “My Heart Is That Eternal Rose” at Metrograph

    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...

    “Resynator” Reconnects Daughter with Synth-Innovator Dad (SXSW)

    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...
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    Estonian horror/comedy “Kratt” on VOD

    In Estonian folklore a “Kratt” is a mythical creature who will work around the clock for you. Once done with a task it says...

    “Ringu” at Japan Society

    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...

    “Dreaming Walls,” a portrait of the Hotel Chelsea, on VOD

    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...

    New Lynne Sachs Short “Swerve” Debuts at BAMcinemaFest

    “Swerve,” a new short film by experimental and documentary filmmaker Lynne Sachs will debut this Sunday, June 26 as part of a second program...

    Queer Cinema Classic “Kamikaze Hearts” Released on VOD

    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...

    “Open Roads: New Italian Cinema” at Lincoln Center

    The 21st edition of “Open Roads: New Italian Cinema”, a retrospective of important recent Italian films, screens at Lincoln Center from June 9 to...

    “The Wobblies” opens at the Metrograph

    Why hasn’t Hollywood ever made an epic film about the history of the Wobblies, the radical labor union (the I.W.W. or International Workers of...

    “Stanleyville” opens at the Metrograph

    Maxwell McCabe-Lokos’ “Stanleyville,” which opens today (April 22) at the Metrograph in Manhattan, is a satire with elements of stunt/dare challenge TV shows, “The...

    “Hit the Road” opens at the Film Forum

    “Hit the Road” is a riotously funny family comedy tinged with the sadness of the political oppression endured by the people of Iran. Four people...

    “New Directors/New Films Festival 2022 at Film at Lincoln Center & MOMA”

    The 51st edition of the New Directors/New Films festival begins April 20 and runs until May 1. The festival has a long track record...

    “The Girl And The Spider” opens at Metrograph & Film at Lincoln Center

    (above: Liliane Amuat and Henriette Confurius in Ramon & Silvan Zürcher's THE GIRL AND THE SPIDER) In 2013 Swiss film director Ramon Zürcher had a...

    Four by Valentyn Vasyanovych at MOMI

    “If we don’t resist the Russian invasion,” Valentyn Vasyanovych told Leonardo Goi, “Ukraine will disappear as an independent state, and the countries of the...