In The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them, writer/director Ned Benson reminds us of the movies’ ability to condense time without recurring to extremist formalist methods. The almost-decade-long relationship he explores in the film couldn’t be more …Read more

The problem with interviewing Jess Weixler is that she makes you feel so comfortable that you forget you did your research and have a series of James Lipton-y questions to ask her. The minute I walked into the room where she was, she pointed at my ne …Read more

I spoke on the phone to Tony-award winner Victoria Clark about her work in Sharon Greytak’s Archaeology of a Woman (in theaters September 12) and after we hung up something strange happened. Miss Clark called me back because she said she had some que …Read more

Honeymoon, the debut horror film from director Leigh Janiak, takes us to a cabin the woods – a locale so immediately familiar to anyone with a passing knowledge of the genre that it was even used as the title of a recent deconstruction of the genre. …Read more

In Archaeology of a Woman, writer/director Sharon Greytak tells the compelling story of Margaret (Sally Kirkland) a woman trying fiercely to hold on to the secrets she’s guarded for decades, as she faces the irreversible cruelty of Alzheimer’s diseas …Read more

Sally Kirkland has never been one to shy away from intense emotions. In Anna she gave one of the seminal performances of the 1980s as a middle-aged actress trying her best to return to the New York stage. She has a unqiue fire in her eyes and her com …Read more

The conflict between Israel and Palestine seems as entrenched as any on Earth – weighed down by implacable forces of history and religion, it’s harder to imagine a resolution than it is to imagine hostilities continuing for years to come. Yet Nadav S …Read more

In Tim Sutton’s poetic Memphis, the camera captures musician Willis (blues artist Willis Earl Beal) in a number of haunting scenes as he tries to get back into his creative groove and deliver the record everyone in the film keeps talking about. Willi …Read more

Oh to be young again. Australian Genevieve Bailey takes a look at youth around the world in her unique documentary I Am Eleven, covering 15 countries and interviewing 11 year olds from all walks of life. Why eleven you ask? Because this was an appare …Read more

I met Signe Baumane in a crowded midtown cafe to discuss her new film Rocks in My Pockets; she broke the ice by telling me something very interesting about my surname, “in Latvian it means steps”, she said with a bright smile. I told her I had no ide …Read more