Flix for Short: Garlan Hulse: Where Potential Lives
In the same vein as the cool retro marketing Wreck-It Ralph had done for its fictional Fix-It Felix Jr. game, Rich Moore has made ...
Tag: Documentary
Flixist Awards 2012: Best Documentary
The much maligned documentary gets an unfair shake. You say documentary to someone and they think talking heads and boredom. However, as this ...
Documentary on The National to open Tribeca Film Festival
Even thouh SXSW is almost upon us, a few of us New York-based editors are also gearing up for the Tribeca Film Festival, ...
Flix for Short: Rediscovered Empire Strikes Back doc
Long thought lost, this making-of documentary on The Empire Strikes Back is the bee’s knees. It features lots of never-before-seen footage of the ...
Reviews
Review: Brooklyn Castle
It’s easy to be judgmental of the public education systems across the country, what with news of budget cuts, terrible test scores, and ...
Martin Scorsese shoots New York Review of Books party
The New York Review of Books turned 50 years old this month. If you’re not familiar, they’re one of the best publications for ...
NYC: Three-night Richard Williams program at 92Y Tribeca
[As a reminder, this 92Y Tribeca event kicks off tonight with a 25th anniversary screening of Who Framed Roger Rabbit? in 35mm.] From ...
Kickstart a documentary on Tim Burton’s Superman Lives
Tim Burton’s Superman Lives would have been an oddball Superman film. Not oddball in the kooky Mort Weisinger way, but just f**king bonkers. ...
Reviews
Review: Dear Mandela
Apartheid ended in South Africa in 1994, bringing a majority party, the African National Congress (ANC), into power. In those first years of ...
Reviews
Sundance Review: The Gatekeepers
In Israel’s Shin Bet, I find an intelligence agency not so different from the CIA. In Israel’s religious zealots, I find an extremist ...
Sundance Review: Sound City
An hour into Sound City, the film takes an unexpected detour, suddenly documenting a jam session between David Grohl and friends instead of ...
Trailers
Trailer: Kink (Red Band)
Kink is the James Franco produced documentary the explores the BDSM website, Kink.com. This trailer proves that the documentary won’t be sex acts, ...