Sensory Stories currently being shown at The Museum of the Moving Image was conceived and organized by Future of StoryTelling and is essentially a peek into what the future holds for fiction narrative. Using virtual reality, interactive films and par …Read more

Kai (Garcia Bernal) mysteriously appears from a river and shows up on a small family farm. He is instantly taken with the farmer’s daughter, Vania (Alice Braga), and vows to help them defend their farm against evil mercenaries out to drive them away …Read more

There are revenge flicks, and then there is Lila and Eve, a lively psychological drama that catapults viewers into a maelstrom of violence and snowballing gang violence. It is pleasing to witness a lead character who fails to hesitate during the mome …Read more

One can assume that the infamous 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment has by now been studied and processed enough. It’s a template for freshman psychology courses, an introduction to what an institution and system of rules can wreak on the behavioral mod …Read more

A Hard Day is a madcap good cop vs. bad cop thriller streamlined for pleasure and plot twists. Bathed in unattractive fluorescence the movie has no qualms about looking good, but presses on with riveting velocity. On the drive to his mother’s funeral …Read more

Tensions are already running high when we meet the Parker family, recently transplanted to the remote Australian town of Nathgari following an incident involving precocious teenage daughter Lily (Maddison Brown). Each family member is struggling to a …Read more

David Thorpe is the director of the highly celebrated documentary, Do I Sound Gay, a filmic essay that explores insecurities some gay men have about their voices, where those voices come from, and what the stigmas are around them. The film is a sheer …Read more

In Meet Me in Montenegro Alex Holdridge and Linnea Saasen play Anderson and Lina, two drifters who meet by chance in Berlin and have a torrid fling that takes them to the title Balkan country. One day she disappears leaving only a note behind. Fast f …Read more

Carlos Marques-Marcet’s 10.000 Km. centers on the relationship between Sergi (David Verdaguer) and Alex (Natalia Tena), a couple living in Barcelona who have been together for seven years and are discussing the possibility of having a child, when Ale …Read more

From July 9-19, New Yorkers will have the opportunity to see the best of contemporary and classic Japanese cinema in North America’s largest Japanese film festival. The 2015 selections include works by modern masters like Tsho Sukikawa and Masashi Ya …Read more