Filmmaking can sometimes share qualities with baking. For example, when making a cake, each ingredient needs to be measured perfectly and mixed together evenly in order to successfully craft a tasty product. Sion Sono achieves this type of success i …Read more
Yukinori Makabe’s debut feature film is a rewording of the classic coming-of-age story, a coming-of-monk story. I Am a Monk details the protagonist Susumu’s (Atsushi Ito) transition from a regular member of the community into monkhood. The transiti …Read more
Roberto Minervini’s The Other Side, a documentary about a small group of poor Louisianians, is as raw as a plate of tuna tartare. This portrait of life in the deep South does not shy away from any aspect of how these people live. Minervini shows on …Read more
A certain reputation always surrounds someone with an Oscar-winning film amongst their credits. Thus, expectations are high for the feature debut of Piero Messina, the man who worked as assistant director on Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty. The …Read more
In honor of the film’s 30th anniversary, Film Forum will be showing David Lynch’s dreamy, mystery-thriller, Blue Velvet in 35 mm. Before you experience some of David Lynch’s timeless characters in Blue Velvet, I have put together a list of the ten b …Read more
In the first scene of Ted Fendt’s Short Stay, we meet our tall, mumbling protagonist, Mike (Mike Maccherone). Mike looks exactly like the kind of guy who one would find cleaning tables and answering phones at a pizza place in New Jersey, which is wh …Read more
