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“Stations of the Elevated” Offers a Rare Glimpse into Late ’70s New York
“Stations of the Elevated” opens at BAM this Friday. Photo: BAM Stations of the Elevated is a weird film, to be perfectly blunt. If you have more than a passing interest in graffiti and the evolution...
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Warhol’s Legacy Comes Alive at BAM
Factory girl Edie Sedgwick poses for a Warhol film. Photo: Andy Warhol Museum Several years ago, musicians Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips (both formerly of Luna) were commissioned to provide the...
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Seven Movie Marathons and Binge-Watching Ideas for Thanksgiving Weekend
The day after Thanksgiving isn’t actually a holiday for most people, but between the turkey hangover, the hangover hangover, and the sheer number of people who are either traveling, shopping or just...
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Out of the Mall and into the Museum: A Culture-Packed Holiday in New York
It’s not just the holiday season in New York, with all those lights, elaborate window displays and ill-advised third (or fourth or fifth) servings of mulled wine, it’s also something of a peak to the...
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Short Films for Small Theatergoers at the 17th BAMkids Film Festival
Winter can be tough on families. Everybody is stuck inside playing with the same toys and watching the same shows until spring finally sets in. To break up the monotony of Tumble Leaf, Maleficent, or...
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The Real Meaning of ‘Cinderella': A Five-Year-Old’s Take
The new film “Cinderella” doesn’t break new ground, but princess loving preschoolers will definitely love it. Afterwards, treat them to the play at Kings Theater. Photo: Meredith Craig de Pietro If...
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Noah Baumbach’s ‘While We’re Young’ Gets Brooklyn Right and Women Wrong
A while back, I became friends with a young guy who biked around Brooklyn with a bird on his shoulder. For a guy who prized “open communication,” and didn’t own a smartphone (the bravery!), he...
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RiffTrax Will Bring the Funny to The Room at the Tribeca Film Festival
‘The Room’–known as the ‘Citizen Kane’ of bad films–has achieved cult status with midnight screenings around the country. RiffTrax has helped make it even funnier. Photo: Drexel Theater There are bad...
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‘Wolfpack,’ a Band of Brothers Imprisoned by their Parents, Liberated by the...
In The Wolfpack, the Angulo boys bring new meaning to TV dinner. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures Every once in a while, a great story comes by and smacks you in the face. For Crystal Moselle, that...
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Get Out of Town: 3 Summer Weekend Festivals Just a Train or Bus Ride Away
Ah, summer–that beautiful time of year when winter is a distant memory and we all start to wonder just why we live in a humid swamp with 100-degree heatwaves matched by 100-year-old houses where...
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‘Tangerine’ May Restore Your Faith in Cinema
A hit at Sundance, and the closing night film of BAMcinemaFest this Sunday, Tangerine was shot on an iPhone using an $8 app. Photo: Magnolia Pictures In a season of shockingly boring futurescapes, CGI...
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Your 2015 Calendar of Free Outdoor Movies in Brooklyn
Ride the Wonder Wheel, eat a hot dog and catch a movie, all at Coney Island. Photo: NYEDC One of the best parts of a summer spent in Brooklyn is the opportunity to while away a hot weeknight watching a...
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Amy Before She Faded to Black
It was a frustratingly short jump from the thrill of hearing Amy Winehouse’s “Rehab” blaring out of bars and cars in 2007, like the Shangri-Las had discovered hip-hop and horns, to the tabloids, the...
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Washed Up at Twentysomething in ‘Fort Tilden’
Clare McNulty and Bridey Elliot take millennial angst to all-time lows in “Fort Tilden.” Photo: Brian Lannin “This place is awesome, it’s such a piece of shit,” notes one of Fort Tilden‘s leading women...
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‘People Places Things,’ a Rom-Com for Rom-Com Haters
If you hate rom-coms because you’d rather be watching explosions or CGI dinosaurs or a period drama about the secretly lonely life of a former head of state, you probably won’t like People Places...
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‘The Boy’ Confirms that Hotels Are No Place for Children
There’s no shortage of films (and TV shows for that matter) about serial killers and psychopaths these days, and perhaps this should come as no surprise. There’s something almost compulsively...
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‘Digging for Fire’ Revels in the Mystery of the Mundane
The interesting thing about mumblecore films is that they always seem longer than their approximate 90-minute running times. I credit this to their highly naturalistic style–they’re composed of scenes...
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The Movie Every Mom is Afraid to Watch is Quite Amazing
Jacob Tremblay and Brie Larson in the challenging but captivating film, Room. Photo: Courtesy of A24 There is a scene in Room where five-year-old Jack spots a mouse making its way across the grimy...
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“Natural Resistance”: Drink Wine, Change the World
Stefano Bellotti is a farmer, winemaker and firebrand. Photo: Natural Resistance “As long as we eat crap, we are crap,” says farmer and winemaker, Stefano Bellotti in Natural Resistance, a new...
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“Nasty Baby ” Stealthily Indicts Your Gentrifying Ways
Kristen Wiig and Sebastian Silva star in “Nasty Baby.” Going into Nasty Baby, the new sort-of-comedy from Sebastián Silva, I was under the assumption, based on a short press release I had read, that I...
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