Mateo is a fascinating look at a culturally liminal figure, who slips back and forth between the culture he was born in and the culture he’s chosen. Mateo is the stage name of Matthew Stoneman, America’s most famous “gringo mariachi.” It almost sound …Read more

Few modern artists are shrouded in as much mystery as the Iranian Bahman Mohassess. Born in Rasht in 1931, he would go on to become one of his country’s most prolific creators, having done paintings (he’s sometimes regarded as the “Persian Picasso”), …Read more

Throughout the month of August, the Museum of Modern Art will screen three landmark films as part of their Auteurist History of Film, which in the past has included titles like Jaws, Annie Hall and Barry Lyndon. This month, MoMA Film centers its atte …Read more

There isn’t quite much to say about Wet Behind the Ears, other than that it is a polarizing viewing experience. At times, it can be frank, funny, quirky, and scathing in its satirical observation on the millennial generation. At other times, it can b …Read more

With Woody Allen’s Annie Hall recently showing on the big screen at New York’s Museum of Modern Art we thought we’d take a look back at some of the 1970’s best romantic comedies. It was certainly a heady era of slapstick, satirical and screwball come …Read more

In the wake of the critical response to Boyhood, it is easy to overlook the fact that documentary filmmakers have been dedicating decades to their projects, long before Richard Linklater’s narrative experiment. Making its mark in the festival circuit …Read more

The Wassaic Project is a free festival featuring the work of hundreds of artists who get together in the picturesque Wassaic hamlet for a weekend of culture, dancing and performances. We talked to Director of Film Programming, Liliana Greenfield-Sand …Read more

It’s always difficult to define what the “best” of anything is when it comes to film- as the usual saying goes, art is subjective. The first decade of the new century was filled with experimental, stylistic, and ambitious films created by an immense …Read more

In 2010, a platoon of US army soldiers, known as “The Kill Team”, murdered three innocent Afghan civilians in an act of “sport” in the Maywand District of Afghanistan. This deeply disturbing and revealing documentary plunges audiences into the heart …Read more

Billy Wilder accrued 78 writing credits and 23 directing credits in a career spanning more than seven decades. His career began in Germany where in 1929 he wrote his first screenplay, Hell of a Reporter. A mere five years later he directed his first …Read more