The 53rd New York Film Festival runs September 25 through October 11. Reviews Arabian Nights Bridge of Spies Brooklyn De Palma The Forbidden Room Maggie’s Plan Mia Madre Microbe and Gasoline Right Now, Wrong Then The Walk We Are Alive
The intriguing question of lineage hangs over the documentary De Palma, which illustrates through clips and candid conversation the colorful career of director Brian De Palma. The film is a loving and entertaining homage by the younger directors Noah …Read more
Some degree of reckless ambition is needed in a director to create something truly original, but it’s endearing to see that ambition tempered with humor, compassion, and personal humility. Early in Miguel Gomes’ Arabian Nights (which can be considere …Read more
In NBC’s Aquarius, Gethin Anthony plays an eerily charming version of the infamous Charles Manson that makes us understand why some people found him irresistible. His fine performance modulates Manson’s explosive personality through subtle, seductive …Read more
The Annual Animation Show of Shows is the place to find the best, most acclaimed animated shorts of the year and it often includes at least one of the year’s Oscar nominees. The show will screen in Los Angeles at Arclight Cinema Hollywood from Septem …Read more
Meet the Patels is the perfect documentary/romantic comedy hybrid, when the film opens we meet actor Ravi Patel whose face will be familiar to fans of Scrubs and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, he has just broken up with his girlfriend worried tha …Read more
In another filmmaker’s hands, Ashby would likely teeter between the two films it is – a reflective drama about a hitman attempting to right his wrongs before dying of cancer, and a light, lovely high-school coming-of-age comedy – and falter. In Tony …Read more
Amongst the steady dose of traditional zombie films fed every year to the genre’s insatiable and dedicated fan base are the more unique takes that take aim at a wider audience. Some of these include Warm Bodies, World War Z and Maggie. All of them va …Read more
Opening with a spiritual gravity as profound as the title, Listening starts off with impressive shots of a temple that are distracted by the uncalibrated melancholia of the main character David (Thomas Stroppel). The film is set in a world that mirro …Read more
The homeless men in Time Out of Mind feel like no one can see them, and it’s testament to the great talent of the actors playing them that they manage to pull this off, even though their star quality is the kind that inevitably gets people noticed. O …Read more
