Film
Every Body complicates and clarifies the gender debate.
James Lapine’s charming documentary explores the life of Rose Styron, who at the age of 96 still reigns as the undisputed queen of “The Vineyard,” as she calls it.
More reviews of noteworthy documentaries at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival.
As The Flash crashes at the box office and audiences grow tired of multiverse sagas, creative mastermind Hideaki Anno has delivered two badly needed breaths of fresh air to a genre suffocating under the weight of its own cultural stagnancy.
Five reviews of the kind of films that the Provincetown Film Festival celebrates. Their stories speak to our shared humanity.
I could sense a bit of the downfall of indie narrative cinema at last week’s 25th Provincetown Film Festival, but luckily the spirited programmers dug deeper and worked harder to locate worthwhile cinema.
In this superb documentary about the experience of trans women in Manhattan. It’s beautiful to see how a powerful sisterhood was created and sustained.
By David D’Arcy At the Tribeca Film Festival this year, documentaries led the way as usual. A Revolution on Canvas (Untitled Nicky Nodjoumi), directed by Till Schauder and Sara Nodjoumi, is an ambitious look at one family’s experience of the Iranian dynastic dictatorship and its successor, the Iranian Islamic revolution. The film is the story…
Two documentaries grapple with the ’60s, a decade of chaos, craziness, and the potential for doom or salvation.
Asteroid City is hard to pin down, largely because it holds its ideas about nostalgia and grief at arm’s length.
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