I spoke to director Johnny Ma about his film Old Stone the morning after the US election. Given that his film is a social thriller about a small town cab driver (Chen Gang) who is screwed by a bureaucratic system when he tries to help someone in need …Read more
Frank & Lola is a romance/thriller with a unique dual setting of Las Vegas and Paris. I’m not sure how many other movies share this distinction. Now You See Me, maybe? It’s an interesting juxtaposition: the gaudiness of the Vegas strip versus the …Read more
Nicolas Pesce’s stunningly beautiful, boldly horrifying The Eyes of My Mother is set in a small farmhouse inhabited by Francisca (Kika Magalhaes) a lonely young woman who dreams of having a friend, even if it must be against their will. The horror fi …Read more
Brendan J. Byrne’s documentary Bobby Sands: 66 Days, shines new light on the IRA martyr who died at age 27, while imprisoned, after a hunger strike which sought to change the way in which he and his fellow inmates were treated by the British governme …Read more
The Romanian Film Initiative and the Jacob Burns Film Center will be presenting the 11th edition of Making Waves: New Romanian Cinema from December 1-8. Our critics discuss four essential films of the 2016 edition. Dogs In Dogs, a young man from the …Read more
After the success of the live stream in the spring, the visionary minds at BroadwayHD, in partnership with Fathom Events, are bringing She Loves Me to movie theaters across the nation on December 1. Whether you caught the show during its Broadway run …Read more
Should you take pleasure in the misfortunes of others, then Old Stone will prove a merriment. For the not so sadistic it might present grumbled frustrations and dour indignities. The site of the injustice in Canadian Johnny Ma’s debut feature is Chin …Read more
Mifune: The Last Samurai is a documentary about the legendary Japanese actor, Toshiro Mifune. Spanning the silent era of samurai film through the death of its greatest star, the film provides an impressive overview of the genre and insight into the l …Read more
Some cinephiles feel that they’ve seen everything before. There is no movie that hasn’t been done — no formula that hasn’t been treated, picked over, or inverted. This isn’t even touching on the rampant and largely unsuccessful studio preference for …Read more
This year’s DOC NYC features more than 100 nonfiction films from all parts of the world, all of which intend to open our eyes to realities near and far, in the process expanding our views and our ability for empathy. We’re now living in a time in whi …Read more
