Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
Two divergent works of theater for the screen were at this year’s NYFF, an adaptation of Macbeth in black and white, and a raunchy sleeper from Romania.
This was an improved edition of the Berlin International Film Festival, and a number of films seem poised to travel widely, despite being largely ignored by the US media.

The Annual Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll at Mid-Year: Warming Up a Riff — How It Happened, and Why It Matters