We spoke to Lauren Patten about her work in The Goree All-Girl String Band playing at NYMF. Can you talk about your character in the show and what the rehearsal process has been like? I play Reable Childs who is kind of the leader of The Goree Girls, …Read more
Andrew Rossi’s Bronx Gothic in which he profiles performance artist Okwui Okpokwasili as she goes on tour with her eponymous piece seems like quite the departure from his previous film, the Met Gala documentary The First Monday in May, which chronicl …Read more
The second installment of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s life story, Endless Poetry begins just as Dance of Reality ended: with a small purple boat bouncing amongst the waves carrying Jodorowsky toward unfamiliar joys and tribulations. This seamless opening …Read more
Lady Macbeth opens with a marriage ceremony. The bride, Katherine (Florence Pugh) tentatively goes through the motions, as the groom remains out of the frame. That night, shy and polite, our bride repeatedly assures everyone she is fine, not too cold …Read more
Though it premiered at Locarno, Luc Bondy’s final feature False Confessions appears to have been billed as TV movie and been broadcast on television in Europe, as opposed or prior to a theatrical release. A French television movie seems like an oxymo …Read more
Even though the name Andrew Wilk might not be instantly recognizable to arts lovers, he’s a man we owe a great deal to in terms of making the performing arts accessible for people all over the world. As the executive producer for the award winning Li …Read more
Oliver Hirschbiegel first gained international attention for his taut character study Downfall in which he examined the last ten days in Hitler’s life with some accusing him of trying to humanize one of the most detestable figures that ever lived. In …Read more
Polaroid cameras have recently made a comeback but a portrait photographer by the name of Elsa Dorfman was the original instant film connoisseur. And this original Polaroid camera was no little handheld device that created an image one could easily f …Read more
A young girl (Oona Laurence) wanders through the forest, singing softly to herself, searching of mushrooms. It is 1863 and we are in the deep South. Canons rumble far off. The air is drenched in light, and cicadas maintain a thrum of sound. With a st …Read more
The Bad Batch opens with an institutional announcement over the title screens, alerting guards to exercise utmost caution around ‘bad batch’ prisoners. Once we are finally given a picture to go with the dire, looping announcement, we see an absurdly …Read more
