Coney Island Announces Lineup for Summer ‘Flicks on the Beach’
From last year’s Flicks on the Beach. Credit: Alliance for Coney Island.With the memory of the recent Mermaid Parade still warm in our hearts, we’re pleased to note that the Coney Island Flicks on the...
View ArticleEast Village Community Gardens to Host Screenings of National Security Docs
Does government surveillance really get your goat? (To be honest I have never really understood that expression but I am just going to run with it.) Is your ideal evening spent watching documentaries...
View ArticleNitehawk Nods to Female Directors, Addressing the ‘Elephant in the Room’
(Photo: Signature Move) Representation matters. But unsurprisingly, it’s still lacking in nearly all fields. Especially in Hollywood. Casts, directors and producers are overwhelmingly white and male....
View ArticleAesop Rock Returns to His Old Stomping Grounds For His Bushwick Civil-War Movie
Last month we shared a Q&A with the directors of Bushwick, about a Texas army invading the Brooklyn neighborhood. In honor of the movie’s release and his first time scoring a film, Aesop Rock is...
View ArticleThe Art of the Prank Unmasks Joey Skaggs, Father of Fake News
In Art of the Prank, set to release on October 9, longtime New Yorker and media hoaxer Joey Skaggs is gearing up to pull off the largest and most demanding hoax of his career. Long before “fake news”...
View Article‘Psychotic!’ Is a Bushwick Horror Film With a Killer Soundtrack
Following in the bloody footsteps of a vampire flick and a demon flick, the budding Bushwick horror genre now has a slasher flick. Psychotic! comes to theaters in Greenpoint and Williamsburg this...
View ArticleThe Early Word On Six NYC Films That Premiered at Sundance
A film still from Skate Kitchen by Crystal Moselle.(Courtesy of Sundance Institute, photo by Ryan Parilla) Skate Kitchen Crystal Moselle won the grand jury prize at Sundance in 2015 for her shocking,...
View Article18th Annual Bicycle Film Festival Returns for the City’s Cycling Creatives
(Image credit: Bicycle Film Festival) New York’s long-standing Bicycle Film Festival returns for a whopping eighteenth year between June 19-24 at Anthology Film Archives. It’s a whirlwind gathering of...
View ArticleThe Brooding Long Goodbye Brings the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival to a Close
The trailer for Long Goodbye opens with a straight shot of a woman with shoulder-length hair and a jean jacket walking briskly away from the camera through the Morgan Ave subway station. We can’t see...
View ArticlePlanning to Spend Valentine’s Day Cooped Up in the Dark? Let These Movies Help
Valentine’s Day is for lovers, and also for haters. If you’re looking to celebrate on February 14th—or to abscond entirely, laughing or screaming—our local art house theaters are here to provide....
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