arts
Progressive cinema: Whistleblowers at Tribeca
May 7, 2014Certainly the film of most interest to progressives at the Tribeca Film Festival this year would be 1971, directed and written by Johanna Hamilton.
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Unique films get honors at Tribeca Film Fest
May 5, 2014The 12-day festival co-founded by Robert De Niro screened 89 feature films and 57 shorts to an audience of almost a half a million viewers.
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Workers Unite Film Festival opens May 9 in NYC
May 1, 2014New York City is the home of many film festivals. Most don't highlight the lives of working people, although some have working people as characters.
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“The Galapagos Affair, Satan Came to Eden” film review
April 30, 2014The atavistic impulse to "get away from it all" and "return to nature" has been a literary theme since Robinson Crusoe and the Swiss Family Robinson cast away on desert islands.
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“The Quiet Ones” is drama dressed up as horror
April 29, 2014Though perhaps arbitrarily unique among its peers, "The Quiet Ones" will likely still get lumped in with the other PG-13 contemporaries and forgotten soon enough.
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