Tribeca 2011: Critic’s Choice – Features
A Decade In the Life of the Tribeca Film Festival If you want eight million New Yorkers and millions of…
New York
New Directors/New Films 2011 – Critic’s Choice
For the second consecutive year, The Independent’s senior film critic, Kurt Brokaw, has screened the entire lineup of New Directors/New…
Leader of Red Sheep
Red Shirley, Lou Reed’s 28-minute homage to his 101-year-old cousin, Shirley Novick, had its New York premiere January 15th, as…
New York Film Festival 2010 – Critic’s Choice
The Independent’s senior film critic Kurt Brokaw offers his picks from the 2010 New York Film Festival. Below are excerpts…
A Meeting of Worlds: YouTube Biennial at the Guggenheim
The Guggenheim Museum: one of the art world’s most venerable institutions, home of masterpieces from the Impressionist movement to the…
Defending Tribeca in an Era of Megabrands
Those French scamps who walked off with this year’s Best Short Oscar (LogoRama) didn’t sneak in a Tribeca Film Festival…
Tribeca 2010: Travis Senger on “White Lines and The Fever: The Death of DJ Junebug”
After winning a special jury prize at SXSW 2010, Filmmaker Travis Senger brings his short documentary White Lines and The…
Tribeca 2010: Mary Robertson on “Missed Connections”
Have you ever felt your eyes lock with someone across a crowded subway, only to wish later that you had…
Advance Look at New Directors/New Films
For the past 38 years in Manhattan, The Film Society of Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art have…