This year The Film Society of Lincoln Center is celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the beloved series Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, which over the past two decades has introduced New Yorkers to some of the most vibrant French films. This year …Read more
From Glee to Godspell, and Pacific Overtures, Telly Leung has become one of the most beloved musical theatre actors of his generation, having lent his pristine voice to a varied array of characters in the years since his stage debut. But he might be …Read more
Shortly before 9/11, playwright Brian Sloan placed an ad looking for a roommate. Little did he imagine how much his neighborhood would change in just an instant. Inspired by the responses he got on his ad, he wrote a play called WTC View, in which a …Read more
A few years before he became famous for his comedic turns in Ugly Betty, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and the delightful Buyer & Cellar, a fresh-out-of-college Michael Urie starred in a play called WTC View, in which he played …Read more
Last time Patricia Clarkson and writer/director Ruba Nadda got together, they delivered the delightful romance Cairo Time, in which Clarkson’s character romanced a swoon-worthy Alexander Siddig among the Egyptian pyramids. In October Gale, their seco …Read more
In October Gale, Academy Award nominee Patricia Clarkson plays Helen, a recently widowed woman who decides to spend some time in the isolated lake cabin where she and her husband spend some of their happiest times. As soon as she arrives, several une …Read more
Being a teenager is not easy; with hormones streaming through your system with little regard for your social life, grades or self-esteem, and the fear of discovering you don’t belong in any of the acceptable cliques because you have too much acne or …Read more
From the beginning, Farewell to Hollywood filmmaker Henry Corra knew that his collaborator, and subject, Regina “Reggie” Nicholson would be dead by the time they completed the film. Recently diagnosed with terminal cancer, the teenage girl had one la …Read more
Eastern Boys opens at the Gare du Nord train station in Paris, where we see a group of Eastern European youths tempting fate by teasing petty theft and other mischief to the authorities. The camera follows one of them, Marek (Kirill Emelyanov) as he …Read more
A woman’s life is defined by her relationships with two men in John & Jen the “twist” being that they are not relationships of a romantic nature, but instead with her brother, and son. When we first meet Jen (Kate Baldwin) in 1952 she is twelve y …Read more