By Gregg W. Morris – Nicola and his friends dream of a lush life of fancy clothes, expenive restaurants, lavish consumer goods and sex with beautiful nubile girls as well as trysts at brothels. And, of course, they want more expensive motor scooters. Their dreams come true – at a cost! – in Director Claudio Giovannesi’s superbly lensed cinemagraphic tale.
Film at Lincoln Center
Noah Baumbach’s MARRIAGE STORY
By Gregg W. Morris – About the rapid tangling and gradual untangling of impetuosity, resentment, and abiding love between a married couple negotiating their divorce and the custody of their son. Starring Adam Driver as Charlie, a 100-percent New York experimental theater director; Scarlett Johansson as Nicole, his principal actress and soon-to-be LA-based ex-wife. Siding with Nicole is Nora Fanshaw played by Laura Dern and on Charlie’s side is a “nice” character played Alan Alda and “not-so-nice” character played by Ray Liotta.
57th New York Film Festival
Opening Night: World Premier of Martin Scorsese’s THE IRISHMAN
The roster of rich talent behind and in front of the camera and at the core of THE IRISHMAN are four great artists: Joe Pesci as Pennsylvania mob boss Russell Bufalino, Al Pacino as Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa, and Robert De Niro as their right-hand man, Frank Sheeran, each working in the closest harmony imaginable with the film’s incomparable creator, Martin Scorsese.THE IRISHMAN will be released in select theaters and on Netflix later this year.
New York Latino Film Festival, August 12 to 18, Kicks Off Opening Night With …
NYLFF 2019 will feature more than 83 films representing 10 countries, spanning all genres including features, shorts, documentaries, web series and experimental films starring, about and for the U.S. Latino community.
New York Asian Film Festival
Before the Closing Night Screening of the Fantabulous THE WHITE STORM 2: DRUG LORDS (掃毒2天地對決) There Was This Audience Award Domajigger
The Mother of All closing night audience award domajiggers?
ACLU
Suspected ICE Attacks Today, Sunday, July 14: Know Your Rights – More
Know your rights …