The Artist Academy is an immersive creative experience for filmmakers early in their careers, and the Critics Academy, a workshop for aspiring film critics, at the 54th New York Film Festival (September 30 – October 16). The NYFF Critics Academy,…
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New York Film Festival 54th Lineup for Annual Avant-Garde Showcase, Projections
The showcase takes place October 7-9 and the slate is comprised of 11 programs presenting an international selection of film and video work that expands upon our notions of what the moving image can do and be. Drawing on a…
STARVING THE BEAST – Film Review
Starving the beast is a right wing political strategy to force the federal government to reduce spending by depriving it of revenue. Steve Mims’ and Bill Banowsky’s STARVING THE BEAST is a lucid and compelling 75-minute rebuttal, eloquently expressed with…
Film Review
I AM NOT A SERIAL KILLER
Director Billy O’Brien’s I AM NOT A SERIAL KILLER (adapted from Author Dan Well’s novel) is made in the vein of five-star art house horror gems like EXISTS (2014) and IT FOLLOWS (2014), that is, low budget with the heart of a major motion picture.
WHITE GIRL Film Review
What Quentin Tarantino did for the aestheticization of mind f*cking cinematic violence, Director-Writer Elizabeth Wood’s ravishing work of soft porn may do for filmmakers daring to feature libidinous white females who gorge on sex and drugs yet barely suffer the dire consequences and debasement that happen to real life profligates.
Producers Guild of America’s Produced By: New York 2016 Announces Tina Fey & Chris Rock as Featured Speakers
Third Annual Conference Takes Place Saturday, October 29 at Time Warner Center It will be held for the third consecutive year at Time Warner Center in New York on Saturday, October 29. The conference will present a pair of in-depth…
Film Society of Lincoln Center Announces Lineup For Convergence at 54th New York Film Festival
Nine new works include two World Premieres, audience-directed narrative films, large-scale installations, virtual and augmented reality projects, and more immersive storytelling innovations Plus: Talks featuring ILMxLAB’s Hilmar Koch & Nick Rasmussen, StoryCode’s Mike Knowlton, producer Lindsay Doran on the psychology…
Film Society of Lincoln Center Announces Revivals Lineup for 54th New York Film Festival
New restorations of Kenji Mizoguchi’s Ugetsu, Marlon Brando’s One-Eyed Jacks, Edward Yang’s Taipei Story, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s Memories of Underdevelopment, anniversary revivals of The Battle of Algiers and Harlan County USA, long-lost shorts by late master Jacques Rivette, and more…
U.S. Justice Department Finds a Pattern of Civil Rights Violations by Baltimore PD
This 8/10/16 U.S. Justice Dept. report reflects the evil actions that police depts. around the country are doing to people of color in their cities. It’s surprises this editor that there isn’t more violence against the police.
The WORD 54th New York Film Festival
Dear Greggory W., Congratulations! You have been accredited to cover the upcoming 54th New York Film Festival. Press & Industry screenings will begin the week of September 19, and the P&I screening information and schedule will be sent out soon.…