Screening Times: Sun, Apr 30 @ 8:45pm, Tue, May 2 @ 1:45pm More than the Who, the Rolling Stones or Elvis Presley, it was Link Wray’s distorted guitar that forever changed the sound of rock ‘n’ roll. His 1958 track “Rumble” was described by Bob Dylan as “the best instrumental ever”—yet it was banned by […]
Telefilm Canada to present the sophomore tour of the Canadian film series: CANADA NOW: BEST NEW FILMS FROM CANADA 2017. Sundance 2017 Award-winner RUMBLE: THE INDIANS WHO ROCKED THE WORLD kicks off the U.S. series @ New York’s IFC Center CANADA NOW set to screen in NY from Thurs, April 6 – Sun, April 9 […]
“Kiarostami represents the highest level of artistry in the cinema.” — Martin Scorsese “The films of Abbas Kiarostami are extraordinary. Words cannot describe my feelings about them and I simply advise you to see his films.” — Akira Kurosawa “I’m more convinced than ever that he’s one of the giants of contemporary world cinema.” — […]
Remaining Screenings: Fri, Nov 27 @ 5pm In 1962 Hitchcock and Truffaut locked themselves away in Hollywood for a week to excavate the secrets behind the mise-en-scène in cinema. Based on the original recordings of this meeting—used to produce the mythical book “Hitchcock-Truffaut” — this film illustrates the greatest cinema lesson of all time and […]
On February 10 VVS Films will make available on DVD & VOD the film that screened at 2014 TIFF about two best friends rise through the ranks of New York’s Chinese underworld in the 1980’s. For more info on the film please visit the REVENGE OF THE GREEN DRAGONS TIFF film page.
Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema – June 5 to July 1 – TIFF Bell Lightbox “This is a cinema of personal vision, social commitment and poetic responsibility from which we’ve all learned and which sets a high standard that, as a filmmaker, I strive to achieve with every film, every time out.” — […]
Bow Tie Cinemas Ziegfeld Theater will celebrate the longtime collaboration between Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese and Academy Award®-nominated actor Leonardo DiCaprio with a two day, five film retrospective on February 13th and 14th. Kent Jones of the New York Film Society at Lincoln Center will moderate a conversation with DiCaprio, Academy Award®-winning editor Thelma […]
Game developer Alan Flores gives some specific tips on game creation at the AFI FEST panel THE FUTURE OF STORYTELLING (l to r – moderator John Heinsen, Jon Avnet, Alan Flores, Kathleen Grace, Jan Pinkava).
by shael stolberg In recent years their has been a proliferation of “issue” docs or films that want you to care and/or act for a “cause” in which they care deeply. Whether or not we believe in the cause, nobody truly wants to feel lectured to even if its in their best interest. To Stephaine […]
