ONE HUNDRED MORNINGS
Conor Horgan, a well regarded Irish photographer and commercial director, has made a fourth feature film that makes big-budget, civilization-wide disaster movies like The Book of Eli and 2012 pale in...
View ArticleDARK DAYS
Dark Days has an aesthetic vibe to it that has largely disappeared from documentaries as digital production has become ubiquitous due to the high shooting ratios involved in the genre.
View ArticleBAD POSTURE
Admittedly low key and light on consequence despite the thievery and black market behavior chronicled, Bad Posture contains worlds of rich texture and character interaction, of, for lack of a better...
View ArticlePARIAH
With Pariah, a buoyant tale of a young, middle-class New York lesbian’s tough coming-of-age amid the class and cultural proxy battles that simmer within black America, lauded newcomer Dee Rees has made...
View ArticleWUTHERING HEIGHTS
As stark and unforgiving as her previous works, Andrea Arnold’s new film finds her pondering the aftermath of a mysterious, multi-pronged trauma for yet another soulful, alienated loner.
View ArticleSAWDUST CITY
Sawdust City, which owes at least some small debt to Cassavetes, as well as to Hal Ashby’s The Last Detail, rather indulges us in a doomed brotherhood that we’re rooting for even as we’re watching it...
View ArticleOPEN FIVE 2
Kentucker Audley’s Open Five 2 is as sneakily beautiful as it is surprisingly earnest.
View ArticleOVERSIMPLIFICATION OF HER BEAUTY, AN
It’s no surprise that Mr. Nance, whose film is marching to the beat of its own drum from its sensational opening credit sequence onward, is a visual and audio artist first, a filmmaker second.
View ArticleA Conversation with Nadia Szold and Evan Louison (JOY DE V.)
(Joy de V. world premiered at the 2013 Slamdance Film Festival, where it received a Special Jury Mention. It has its New York Premiere at the Northside Festival, screening at Williamsburg’s Wythe Hotel...
View ArticleTreefort Music & Film Fest Wrap-Up
(The Treefort Music Fest is an annual event that takes place in Boise, Idaho. In addition to excellent music, comedy, beer and yoga, the festival is also an up and coming showcase for small budget,...
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