In 1971 Nicholas Ray, former Hollywood director of "Rebel Without a Cause" and "Bigger Than Life," accepted a teaching position at Harpur College of Arts and Sciences at SUNY Binghamton University in upstate New York. At the time the university was seen as the epicenter of experimental and avant-garde art (the film program at Binghamton having been started by renowned experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs). At some point during his two-year tenure, Ray moved into a house off campus with a group of his students and began collaborating on "We Can't Go Home Again," a project that would screen at Cannes in 1973 but was tinkered with, by Ray, until hi...
Read More »With the recent upsurge in quality TV programming and the ensuing embracement by cinema-goers, it was only a matter of time before film festivals actually started programming pieces originally made for the tube. Both "Carlos" and "The Red Riding Trilogy" were of this ilk; flicks broadcast on the small-screen that retained their cinematic quality but took advantage of the long-form storytelling television provided. "Dreileben," the latest of these undertakings, centers on a murder across three feature films each with their own perspective. Things open innocently with a youthful romance, the loose murderer and subsequent manhunt only lurking in...
Read More »Get a head start on the 49th New York Film Festival (it kicks off today) by checking out reviews of some of the big films playing at the event and interviews with some of this year's talent.
Read More »indieWIRE is offering a weekly retrospective box office chart, based on a debuting indie release or a current event on the international film scene. Today, iW is taking a look at the track record of New York Film Festival's opening night film, in honor of the fest's 49th edition kicking off tonight ...
Read More »"It's a one-set film and you're going to live and die in the place you are," says Abel Ferrera about his latest film, "4:44 Last Day on Earth." Speaking to a Film Society at Lincoln Center audience last week, Ferrara discussed why he chose to confront the end of the world inside a New York apartment...
Read More »The New York Film Festival, which begins September 30, offers plenty on the surface: There's the new Roman Polanski (opening-night selection "Carnage"), the sweeter side of the Dardenne brothers ("The Kid With a Bike") and David Cronenberg turning his camera on the relat...
Read More »Here's your chance to connect with filmmakers at New York Film Festival at our afternoon talk series beginning this Saturday.
Read More »The trailer for the upcoming 49th New York Film Festival gets the job done: It got us excited for the 17 days of programming to come.
Read More »The new ending to Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky's "Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory" will have its world premiere at the upcoming 49th New York Film Festival, the Film Society of Lincoln Center announced today.
Read More »What's more fun than watching four of the most acclaimed actors working right now behave very badly? Not much, if the just-released trailer for Roman Polanski's "Carnage" is anything to go by.
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