Tribeca Festival June 7-18
The surest sign that big screen movies are alive and well in New York City came from festival co-founders Jane…
Author: John Rodzvilla
A.V. Rockwell Discusses her debut feature, “A Thousand and One”
When filmmaker A.V. Rockwell debuted her feature, “A Thousand and One,” at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, she ended up…
In Conversation: Megan Kapler and Harry Cullen
In advance of the Bright Lights Cinema Series screening of Laura Poitras’ 2022 documentary “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,”…
In Conversation: Chase Joynt and Kristen Schilt
In honor of Trans Week of Visibility and Action, Bright Lights Cinema Series will be showing “Framing Agnes” this Thursday,…
New Directors New Films March 29-April 9
Late Friday afternoon March 13, 2020, Bill Wolf, the preeminent 94-year-old senior critic of the New Directors/New Films press corp,…
The Life, the Light, and the Shadows: The Stroll
The world premiere of “The Stroll,” a documentary from directors Kristen Lovell and Zackary Drucker (“Transparent,” “The Lady and the…
Reconsidering Andrea Dworkin’s Legacy in “My Name is Andrea”
It is early in director Pratibha Parmar’s “My Name is Andrea” when its subject comes alive in brilliant, flaming righteousness….
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema March 2-12
Film for film, performance for performance, there’s no more pleasurable way for cinephiles to weather a Manhattan winter than to…
Elegance Bratton Receives Coolidge Breakthrough Artist Award
On Friday, Jan. 27, the Coolidge Corner Theater, a cornerstone for independent cinema, honored the award-winning writer, director, and producer…