New Directors/New Films 2011 – Critic’s Choice
…how a roomful of the smartest-guys-in-the-room controlling eight trillion dollars (nearly half of the $20 trillion that melted down globally in 2008) nearly let it all slip away, the Museum…
…how a roomful of the smartest-guys-in-the-room controlling eight trillion dollars (nearly half of the $20 trillion that melted down globally in 2008) nearly let it all slip away, the Museum…
Film critic Kurt Brokaw offers his favorite picks for narrative drama at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival: Chuck and The Wedding Plan.
…[For a story on the acquisition of Gun for Hire and other service operations of The Shooting Gallery, see p. 11.] Unofficial motto or driving philosophy: To inspire artistic expression…
…it’s just for an encyclopedia. But when you start defining people, i.e.: this person comes from Mali and that person comes from Burkina Faso, it’s the same process of classification….
Technology always plays a key role in film innovation, featured for the last eight years in Sundance’s New Frontier section. This year, even more than in the past, New Frontier exhibits deployed technology in a way that allowed users to put themselves in the stories.
…for any commercial documentary project that required “more than incidental” use of Smithsonian resources. The questions flew. What does “incidental” mean? Would any proposals that wanted more than “incidental use”…
…being this great [venue for] exposure,” he says, especially “since movie theaters have really sort of gone away besides those in mass malls and the arthouses in big cities.” His…
…hard learned truth comes as no accident. Having worked in reality television, Shapiro developed the script over two years, repeatedly workshopping it and eventually producing it at the AFI Directing…
Senior Film Critic Kurt Brokaw reviews Summer of Soul, a documentary on the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival that brought together some of the best performers of Jazz, Soul, Gospel, and Funk.