Sundance 2015 – Underdogs On Parade
Staff writer Neil Kendricks assesses the feature-length films that stuck with him at Sundance 2015, including The Bronze, Call Me Lucky, Finders Keepers, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, and Sembene!
Reviews
Sundance 2015 – Shorts That Pack a Punch
“With short films, you have to show your entire world in a split second,” said producer Rasmus Kastberg after the screening of his animated short Tupilaq at Sundance 2015. Maddy Kadish highlights this and a handful of other films from this year’s program of 60, selected from 8,061 submissions.
Sundance 2015 – Nasty Baby is Fun But Perplexing
The film’s title is a strange dichotomy, writes Maddy Kadish from Sundance 2015, and the first part of Nasty Baby “is like a fantasy you don’t want to end.” She and a fellow audience member confer and decide that this film takes a dark turn, and doesn’t come back.
New York Jewish Film Festival, January 14th – 29th – Critic’s Choice
Felix and Meira (Maxine Giroux. 2014. Canada. 105 min) Last year’s Closing Night selection at NYJFF was Ida, this writer’s…
Artifacts from Cinematic Heaven and Hell: The Kubrick Cult Moves to TIFF
This article was originally published on June 5th 2013, Stanley Kubrick: the exhibition can now be seen as part of the…
New York Film Festival 2014 – Critic’s Choice
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 2014 – Audience Plays Key Role in “Convergence”
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.
Linklater’s 12+ Year Gamble on “Boyhood” Pays Off
With Boyhood, “Richard Linklater, already one of America’s most persistently inventive independent filmmakers, has made movie history with the longest real-time dramatic memoir,” writes senior critic Kurt Brokaw. Read his mostly admiring review here.
Tribeca 2014: Critic’s Choice
Of Tribeca’s 89 features and 60 shorts, senior critic Kurt Brokaw elaborates on his favorites. <i>Chef, Venus in Fur</i> and <i>Virunga</i> started us off and <i>Dior and I, Helium, Today’s the Day, Love In the Time of March Madness, Human Voice, Shaking Free</i> and <i>The Vortex Finds a Host</i> round off the list.