Imagine if someone took a delicate rose and tried to preserve its beauty by photocopying it. That ought to give you an idea of what it’s like to sit through The Little Prince, an animated adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s classic that forgets …Read more

Derek Jarman might have passed away in 1994 but always the visionary, he left us behind the film we would need in the aftermath of the Pulse mass shooting; his 1984 Will You Dance With Me? is an exhilarating paean to the sacredness of the dance-floor …Read more

On the heels of the international hit, A Five Star Life (Viaggio sola), comes the romantic comedy Me, Myself and Her (Io e lei), Maria Sole Tognazzi’s fourth film and second collaboration with Italian movie star Margherita Buy. Retired actress Marina …Read more

Hollye Bynum and Sam Owens of the Brooklyn-based dance film company of bones || hollye bynum will be kicking off the first annual Boundless in Brooklyn 48-hour dance film contest July  29 at Videology Bar and Cinema. The Boundless Screening Gala will …Read more

Hieronymus Bosch died in 1516 leaving behind precisely two dozen paintings that have filled our dreams and nightmares ever since. In his elaborate triptychs and panels there are visions of hell that give horror movies a run for their money, fantastic …Read more

Equity opens on investment banker Naomi Bishop (Anna Gunn) in a sushi restaurant with the shots framed so that the slats of the upscale restaurant’s decor look like a cage. Like in any good thriller, the feeling of a cage closing in is an apt opening …Read more

An ex-professor lives alone in a glorified container in an unpopulated island. He is blind, with only empty beaches and an extensive, carefully curated, shell collection to keep him company. He appears perfectly content in his isolation until, one da …Read more

The more things change, the more they stay the same, and even if in Café Society Woody Allen has traded Sony Pictures for Amazon Studios, and celluloid for digital, this is also one of his most effortlessly romantic films, up there with Manhattan and …Read more

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