“Could you survive Brooklyn back in ’84?” That’s the question posed by a newly launched fundraiser for “Living Los Sures,” the interactive film project we first told…
This Week In Film: The Stoner Detective, Javanese Vibes, And Exploding Heads
Wow it’s been a whole week since we brought you a list of films, which means it’s time for another list of movies screening this…
Nevermind Ghostbusters 3, the Film Industry Is Still Spooked About Women
Sure, everyone’s psyched for the all-female Ghostbusters, but last Sunday, as part of the Bushwick Film Festival, a panel of women in the industry came together…
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Outline of a Screenplay for a Film about Saint Paul (in the Form of Notes for a Production Director)
Italian Pier Paolo Pasolini was a filmmaker (specializing in the grotesque and the subversive), poet, novelist, journalist, playwright, painter, actor, and public intellectual, as well…
An Ambitious Look at the South Side, ‘Still Not the Neighborhood You Want to Think It Is’
Living Los Sures, a collaborative work-in-progress documentary project by UnionDocs, is a multifaceted portrait of Williamsburg’s South Side that has been four years in the…
This Brooklyn Director Has a Cannes-Do Attitude
Brooklyn-based director Michael Hobbs only ever imagined he’d have the opportunity to work with a dream team on his latest short film, Short Lived. But…
An Evening with Nir Evron
As the Israel-Palestine conflict is once again splashed across the international press, there was never a better time to become familiar with the work of…
La Traviata
You may not be able to hustle up the cash for a quick jaunt to London’s Royal Opera House (or even, for that matter, to…
Hated: G.G. Allin and the Murder Junkies
Punk rock sensation G.G. Allin was renowned for his outlandish live performance antics—which involved defecating on stage, self-mutilation, nudity, and attacking audience members. He typically…