This year brought 18 features and seven shorts, all presented with live musical accompaniment.
Enervated to the point of somnolence, Miller’s film squanders inherently intriguing material.
With the notable exception of Hilary Swank’s upright and uptight Mary Bee Cuddy, the film never lets its female characters speak for themselves.
This is one of Wiseman’s richest and most thought-provoking films, and easily one of his best.
Mr. Turner, as it titles suggests, is a portrait of the artist as everyman.
The Captive plays like the overeager idiot brother to Egoyan’s superior The Sweet Hereafter.
On the festival circuit at least, every calendar year starts with a bang.
Signs of the push-pull of commerce and art that have always been present within TCMFF were more apparent this year.
The BAFICI seems to channel the sheer variety of the Internet, where it seems all movies from all eras are available.
The Boston-born Sean Gullette is currently based in Tangiers, his wife’s hometown, and he clearly has empathy for his adopted city.
This film fest as cultural event earns its reputation as a major happening for New York cinephiles of all stripes.
Audiences are likely to be drawn to Ice Poison because it’s the rare feature film from Myanmar.
Corneliu Porumboiu’s The Second Game is a fine example of an impulse toward meta-narrative that has recently reinvigorated the nonfiction form.
The majority of Wye Oak’s set did focus on songs their upcoming album Shriek.
If you passed him on the street, you might mistake the Hold Steady’s Craig Finn for a stressed-out dad or high school chemistry teacher.
There’s undoubtedly something a little weird about seeing rock music in a strangely lit, tackily carpeted convention center ballroom.
Self-involved twentysomethings living off their parents dime in Williamsburg are easy targets for derision.
It’s hard to call to mind another contemporary artist who so deftly employs sheer balls-out guitar skill as St. Vincent.
Day one of the music portion of SXSW marks the exodus of tech geeks and hustling entrepreneurs from the fest.
It continues its commitment to bringing exciting new discoveries from around the world to NYC filmgoers.
Dashiell Hammett meets Woody Allen’s Manhattan Murder Mystery in Lawrence Michael Levine’s Wild Canaries.