Filmmakers and Their Global Lens: Eugene Green
In this first edition of our new series, Filmmakers and their Global Lens, The Independent’s special contributor Dana Knight interviews…
In this first edition of our new series, Filmmakers and their Global Lens, The Independent’s special contributor Dana Knight interviews…
“Too much ain’t enough” might be the cry-of-the-night heard throughout the recent 52nd New York Film Festival and this past…
This article was originally published on June 5th 2013, Stanley Kubrick: the exhibition can now be seen as part of the…
Montreal’s Festival du Nouveau Cinema (FNC) is a festival that doesn’t like to be put into neat and tidy boxes….
Pamela Mason Wagner takes a look at ‘why women stay’ with filmmaker Cynthia Hill on her documentary Private Violence, about women in abusive relationships.
Gen Carmel provides first-hand accounts from a filmmaker and programmer who tried to attend the 11th Beijing Independent Film Festival, including a confrontational video between festivalgoers and plain clothes police, as well as the entire festival program.
Kurt Brokaw returns to the New York Film Festival as our senior critic for the fifth consecutive year. No film is left behind as he chooses his favorites, with reviews starting now and coming in over the next week. The festival runs September 26th through October 12th.
New York Film Festival’s transmedia track, Convergence, gets a visit from The Independent’s Anisha Jhaveri. She reviews two audience-driven projects, Immigrant Nation and Artifact of Fukushima: Selections From Unknown Spring.
In Hong Khaou’s Lilting, available on DVD and VOD September 29th, a mother grieves for her son by getting to know her son’s partner. Khaou told The Independent his debut feature came, “from a place that’s deeply personal, especially that of grief. I lost my dad when I was 12 and the character in the film loses her son. So I had to expose myself in a certain way writing this.”