"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...
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...
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...
“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...
The Museum of the Moving Image’s eleventh First Look Festival, devoted to “innovative new international cinema” takes place Wednesday, March 16 to Sunday, March...
