Best of New Directors/New Films: Samson and Delilah
Samson and Delilah (Warwick Thornton. 2009. Australia. 101 min.) Jeff Bridges can teach you a sad thing or two about…
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Best of New Directors/New Films: Bill Cunningham New York
Bill Cunningham New York (Richard Press. 2010. USA. 84 min.) “I let the street speak to me.” At 80 and…
Best of New Directors/New Films: The Evening Dress
The Evening Dress (La Robe du soir) (Myriam Aziza. 2009. France. 98 min.) You can count on one hand the…
Best of New Directors/New Films: The Red Chapel
The Red Chapel (Mads Brügger. 2009. Denmark. 87 min.) Repression. Imprisonment. Extermination. North Korea’s shameful secret is its network of…
Best of New Directors/New Films: The Father of My Children
The Father Of My Children (Le père de mes enfants) (Mia Hansen-Love. 2009. France/Germany. 110 min.) For a long, long…
Best of New Directors/New Films: Beautiful Darling
Beautiful Darling: The Life and Times of Candy Darling, Andy Warhol Superstar (James Rasin. 2010. USA. 86 min.) The defining…
Best of New Directors/New Films: The Man Next Door
The Man Next Door (El hombre de al lado) (Mariano Cohn & Gastón Duprat. 2009. Argentina. 103 min.) Nobody loves…
Advance Look at New Directors/New Films
For the past 38 years in Manhattan, The Film Society of Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art have…
Has the Drive to Fund “Social Issue” Docs Affected Their Form?
Over the past few years, I’ve had the pleasure of attending a number of film festivals and conferences, some with…