The history of the Gaona family seems almost invented for the movies, their legacy in the circus arts goes all the way back to the 19th century, when they were part of the Circo Gaona y León in Mexico, and their unique name pops up in some of the mos …Read more

“Don’t call it jazz – that’s some made up word, it’s social music”  Miles Davis (Don Cheadle) tells the reporter during an interview that bookends the film.  Miles Ahead takes place during the late 1970s, an extended break in which Davis’ career was …Read more

In several ways, Francofonia announces itself as a companion to director Aleksandr Sokurov’s 2002 breakout feature, Russian Ark. The earlier film used the massive Hermitage museum in St. Petersburg as a setting for a fantasia of Russian history and a …Read more

Documentaries are sometimes dismissed as events that can be “saved for home”, but there is a larger than life quality in all of Frederick Wiseman’s films that makes them perhaps as perfect a cinematic experience as can be. Even though his works have …Read more

It’s quite telling that while the official English title of the film is April and the Extraordinary World, in the subtitles it’s referred to as “twisted world”, for that is exactly what we’re given in this adaptation of Jacques Tardi’s work. Set in a …Read more

For its 30th Anniversary, Film Forum is showing David Lynch’s Blue Velvet. Shown in a new restoration, Blue Velvet is worth revisiting and definitely a must-see seeing for those to have yet experience it.  Here are five reasons why you should go back …Read more

Famed playwright and essayist T.S. Eliot once wrote: “What is hell? Hell is oneself. Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.” Whether he knows it or not …Read more

Nobody likes to admit they enjoy the found-footage horror movie. After the novelty of The Blair Witch Project wore off, they’ve started to seem like nothing more than a ploy for producers to choke a couple million out of a bottom-budget project. They …Read more

“Don’t worry. I may have my quirks but I’m not an animal. …or am I?” Martin McDonagh’s first new play in five years, Hangmen, is currently enjoying a very successful run in London’s West End. The hallmarks of McDonagh’s work — violence, gallows humo …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