Sundance 2014: Sorrow and Beauty in Doc Shorts Program II
Park City, UTAH — At Sundance 2014, the three shorts in Documentary Shorts Program II used different devices to exhibit…
Reviews
New York Jewish Film Festival 2014 – Critic’s Choices
How inspiring that The Film Society of Lincoln Center has partnered with The Jewish Museum for more than two decades…
Critic’s Choice – 2013 Finale
Tim’s Vermeer (Teller. 2013. USA. 80 min.) As a premier magic act, Penn and Teller stand among the most accomplished…
New York Film Festival 2013 – Critic’s Choice
Last year’s 50th New York Film Festival (NYFF) gave a 21-gun salute sendoff to its departing director, Richard Pena. It…
Documenting a Man who Refused Interpretation
Salinger (Shane Salerno. 2013. USA. 120 min.) “Salinger and I got alone together, and I said, ‘Look, what do you…
Mother-Daughter Take On “Austenland”
What happens when critic and former academic Rebecca Steinitz, who once taught a course on Jane Austen’s novels and their…
‘Tis the Summer of Women Falling Apart in Films
Kurt Brokaw reviews “The Canyons,” “Lovelace,” and “The Patience Stone” all themed around women in various states of acute mental and emotional collapse.
Tribeca 2013: Critic’s Choice – Shorts
The Nightshift Belongs to the Stars (Edoardo Ponti. 2012. Italy. 23 min.) Think of it: More than 2,800 shorts were…
Tribeca 2013: Critic’s Choice – Features
So what’s new at New York’s most ambitious gathering of all things cinematic? You could start with “a more stable…