America’s Largest Documentary Festival – Nov. 8-26
Anselm Kiefer, Liv Ullmann, Little Richard, Jack and Sam Top DOC NYC How does one approach a film festival too…
Kurt Brokaw
Kurt Brokaw joined The Independent in 2010 as Senior Film Critic, covering New York’s six major film festivals and reviewing individual features and shorts of merit. He was Associate Teaching Professor at The New School for 33 years, and has taught courses on film noir, early lesbian fiction and Jewish-themed cinema at The 92nd Street Y for 15 years. His memoir, The Paperback Guy, was published in 2020.
New York Film Festival September 29–October 13
Film at Lincoln Center knows its audiences. Christian Petzold’s Afire (2023), a German drama of wildfires setting an entire forest…
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…
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,…
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…
New York Jewish Film Festival, January 12–23
The cautionary alerts are everywhere throughout Manhattan. At the Center for Jewish History on West 16th just off Fifth Avenue,…
New York Film Festival, Sept.30-Oct.16
Above is Nan Goldin’s photo that’s become the poster for this 60th NYFF. Talk about a picture being worth a…
DOC NYC Nov. 9-27
No, your reviewer didn’t actually haul a sleeping bag into the IFC Center, Cinepolis Chelsea or the SVA Theatre (16…
Tribeca Festival June 8-20
‘The city that never sleeps’ has awakened to two renamed institutions since the onset of Covid: The 92nd Street Y…