Above: "Do Not Expect Too Much For The End of the World" (My favorite film of the year.)
(in the order that I saw them; unless dated it was a 2024 release)
Undercover Girl (1950)
Timebomb Y2K
Onlookers
Edward Hopper (PBS)
Napoleon (2023)
The Disappearance of Shere Hite (2023)
The Curse (Season 1)
True Detective (Season 4)
Next Goal Wins (2023)
June (2023)
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Batman Begins (2005)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Ferrari (2023)
Fallen Leaves (2023)
Madame...
Here are brief reviews of some of my favorite films from this month's DOC NYC festival.
"My Sweet Land" is a briskly paced, beautifully edited portrait of an 11-year-old Nagorno-Karabakh Armenian boy caught with his family in the series of wars against Azerbaijan which have greatly reduced the land that was once part of Armenia. The boy is remarkably positive given the circumstances and follows...
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...
(above: still from "Mickey Dogface," a short film directed by Zach Fleming, from the "Local Invasion" showcase.)
It’s October which means pumpkin in everything: pies,...
Before Japanese film director Mamoru Oshii made his international hit 1995 animated cyberpunk thriller “Ghost in the Shell,” he made “Angel’s Egg,” a mysterious...
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...
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...
