…labor strike negotiations cast a palpable pall over the entire town. Mammoth billboards along The Strip pitch the latest upcoming summer releases, while inside the festival itself—despite the cajoling and…
The Independent’s editor speaks with Ricardo Bouyett, filmmaker, writer, and photographer of the new short No Love For Fuckboys. The film, which won “Best Experimental Short” at the Short To The Point International Film Festival, is an exploration—at once personal and more broadly social—of the intricacies of navigating dating, friendship, love, and desire after the trauma of sexual assault.
…make any money. “Doug Block [a documentary filmmaker] has a website called the D-word [www.d-word.com], for documentary,” says Savage. “Before Docurama, we’d released some documentaries, and we had to be…
…to use people I like and open myself up to them,” he says. “I’m not a tyrant who says, ‘It has to be this way.’” Louiso found a system for…
Kurt Brokaw selects his critic’s choice shorts from the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival—The Amazing Adventures of Wally and the Worm Colin Hanks, Fry Day, Viola, Franca, along with 11th Hour.
…repositories, home of sensations from children biting other children’s fingers to anime tributes galore. What could these two household names possibly have in common? According to the Guggenheim’s chief curator…
Rendez-vous with French Cinema returns to New York for its 20th year with 22 North American premieres. Senior critic, Kurt Brokaw, sees the slate and divides his favorites into Youth and Crime. With Martin Scorsese as one of this year’s co-chairs, Brokaw insists that indeed, crime does pay.
This March, Rendez-Vous with French Cinema returns to Lincoln Center celebrating the richness, originality, and craft of contemporary French filmmaking. The festival, organized by Florence Almozini and Dennis Lim, runs from March 8th through the 18th. Senior Film Critic Kurt Brokaw offers insightful reviews of his favorites and information on screenings.
…Big Film Shorts [www.bigfilmshorts.com] who are packaging and selling shorts anthologies on video. Short films are rediscovered and reviewed as tastes and fashions change. I just met the actress who…