Pulitzer Prize finalist, Adam Rapp is one of the most prolific artists in America; in 2015 alone he has a new novel coming out, called Know Your Beholder, he’s planning on bringing two shows to the stage – one he did last year in Australia, the other …Read more

Yet another indie darling angsts her way through Brooklyn in Desiree Akhavan’s first feature Appropriate Behavior. The film is a breezy break-up comedy told with a decidedly Annie Hall-like flashback structure. Akhavan stars as Shirin, a Persian bi-s …Read more

The Film Society of Lincoln Center and The Jewish Museum present the 24th edition of the New York Jewish Film Festival from January 14-29. This year the festival features extraordinary works by renowned filmmakers like Amos Gitai (Tsili) and exciting …Read more

Human Capital, Italy’s submission for the 2014 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, cleverly examines the encroachment of capitalist economics into all other spheres of human activity. Yet the economics of the film are never presented in a dry, textbook …Read more

The Museum of the Moving Image’s First Look festival will take place from January 9-18, 2015 and this year features works by the likes of Denis Côté (Joy of Man’s Desiring), Jessica Hausner (Amour Fou) and Jorge León (Before We Go). The festival’s pu …Read more

Predestination, from Australian directing duo Michael and Peter Spierig, is this year’s mind-bender. The screenplay is a loose adaptation from an American sci-fi short story called “—All You Zombies—“ by Robert A. Heinlein; it takes the labyrinthian …Read more

Something, Anything is a quiet, interior film that for most of its running time, is entirely un-cinematic. Yet while I’ve used that as a pejorative before, and the film’s subject might have been more naturally explored in prose or another medium, it …Read more

Bruno Dumont has become one of cinema’s strangest humanists, his characters are always flirting with tragedy or on the verge of sinking under heavy spiritual crises, and yet the filmmaker doesn’t seem to enjoy torturing them in the same way other aut …Read more

Director J.C. Chandor seems to be chronicling a recent history of America through its economic downfall. In 2011 he was one of the first filmmakers to tackle the recession in Margin Call, which centered on the actions of the employees at a Wall Stree …Read more

Something magical is about to happen at the Museum of the Moving Image, which on the 19th will open an exhibition dedicated to the groundbreaking work of legendary animator Chuck Jones. Titled “What’s Up, Doc? The Animation Art of Chuck Jones”, the e …Read more