What kind of film would Forrest Gump be if it were re-imagined by the Swedes nearly two decades later? If adapted for the big screen from the best-selling novel by Jonas Jonasson, it would be a silly, light-hearted comedy. The 100-Year-Old Man Who Cl …Read more

Tom Santopietro’s The Sound of Music Story might very well be the definitive book on the making of the beloved motion picture musical. From its real life origins, to its Broadway incarnation, and finally the Oscar-winning film starring Julie Andrews …Read more

Marie’s Story, directed by Jean-Pierre Améris, is based on real events in the life of Marie Heurtin, mostly known as the French Helen Keller. It is love at first sight for Sister Marguerite (Isabelle Carré) when she meets ten-year-old Marie (Ariana R …Read more

By never staying still, dodging the inevitable becomes routine. Grief, movement, love, confusion are some of the elements that proliferate in this gorgeous film by Sibs Shongwe-La Mer, a first time filmmaker who also wrote, and stars in the film. Peo …Read more

Since the release of the Maysles’ 1968 documentary, Salesman, Albert Maysles has been an iconic figure in the world of cinema. Through the years Albert, along side his late brother David, have provided some of cinema’s greatest documentaries, includi …Read more

One Cut, One Life is a fitting coda to the career of seminal documentarian Ed Pincus, yet it rarely feels elegiac, it’s a vital and probing work of personal filmmaking. A pioneer in the field of direct cinema, both as a filmmaker and as a teacher, Pi …Read more

When their plane is prevented from going to Dallas because of torrential rain, business travelers Les (Matthew Broderick) and Natalie (Alice Eve) are forced to confront a day spent in Albuquerque, in Neil LaBute’s Dirty Weekend. Les is blustery and p …Read more

Over the course of his decades long career, Ken Loach, especially when collaborating with writer Paul Laverty, has shown a singular talent for taking political ideas and vividly illustrating them through films, while staying true to the complexity of …Read more

Teenagers are at the center of many of the films at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival, just as they are at the center of an overwhelming amount of independent film in general. Often it’s a case of young, first-time directors making films about a time in …Read more

In Far From Men, director David Oelhoffen weaves several varied threads into an utterly unique and compelling film. On the surface, it’s a rugged adventure story in which a man must transport a prisoner across hostile terrain, a plot that recalls man …Read more