"Humboldt USA" is a visually majestic portrait of various Americans trying to save what is left of nature and wildlife which uses places named after the 19th century father of ecology as an organizing framework. It will screen May 2 at the Museum of the Moving Image's First Look festival. Go here for showtimes and tickets.
Alexander von Humboldt was one of the most important...
Beginning on May 1, the Criterion Channel is presenting a curated collection of the films of Kimi Takesue. "Directed by Kimi Takesue: Crossings and Encounters" will stream three of her most acclaimed features and eight of her shorts.
I reviewed her 2023 film "Onlookers" two years ago. It was an immersive study of tourists shot in Laos constructed of longish master shots of foreigners walking...
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...
