We had a wonderful turn-out for the first filmwax night of short films. The back room at The Fifth Estate was pretty packed by the time we got...
Crosby Street Hotel, NYC James Caan does not take a press junket very seriously. In his company no one else can either as they would only come off...
I had just turned in my review for the new documentary, “American: The Bill Hicks Story“. When I walked out of the screening last week...
One of most fascinating documentaries I’ve seen in a while, Jon Foy’s “Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles”...
Fort Greene, Brooklyn, Wednesday, March 23, 2011 Safe inside from the thundering hailstorm this past Wednesday night, a panel of documentary...
Several decades ago socially progressive documentary filmmakers like Liane Brandon, Amalie Rothschild, Jim Klein and Julia Reichert had distribution...
Documentary Fortnight, MoMA’s International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media, kicked off its 10th season last night with the world premiere of...
For those who don’t like to trek north of 14th Street, the 92nd Street Y Tribeca has been bringing eclectic programming downtown since opening in...
Douglas Sirk and Fritz Lang share the common experience of having left Germany just in the nick of time though Lang’s story is shadowed by some...
Chad Holt grab off official site Bob Ray (center), director of Total Badass and Hell on Wheels, is touring parts of the country screening the two...
My friend, filmmaker Mike Cerda, invited me to join him to a screening of Jarmusch’s latest film, “The Limits of Control”. There...
I wrote a piece about a new dramatic film called “Night Catches Us” for Britt Bensen’s VOD website ondemandweekly.com. I wrote a...
I just finished the Peter Biskind bio of Warren Beatty, Star. It was very entertaining and basically ran through the actor/producer’s...
I went to the Film Forum yesterday after a previous screening and watched the new Emmanuel Laurent documentary, “Two In The Wave”, about...