The Tribeca Film Festival may be over, but another homegrown flicks fest is just beginning. The 7th Annual Greenpoint Film Festival will take over North Brooklyn this weekend, with four…
Washington Square Park Goes Back in Time For Motherless Brooklyn Shoot
Motherless Brooklyn, the Edward Norton-penned adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s 1999 novel, took over Washington Square Park today, transforming the public space into a scene straight…
Girl Power: Metrograph and Nitehawk Focus On Female Filmmakers
The lack of female directors in the film industry isn’t exactly a new phenomenon, but with the rise of movements like #MeToo and #TimesUp in…
East Village Community Gardens to Host Screenings of National Security Docs
Does government surveillance really get your goat? (To be honest I have never really understood that expression but I am just going to run with…
Bushwick Directors On What It’s Like to Bring Civil War to Brooklyn
Cary Murnion and Jon Milott have teamed up to direct Bushwick, an action movie about a Texas army that invades the Brooklyn neighborhood. Starring Brittany…
The Museum of Interesting Things Is a Roving ‘Speakeasy’ Run By a Quirky Curator
How did we watch films at home before Netflix and DVD? And before VHS? Denny Daniel will show you at his Museum of Interesting Things. This…
At the NY Asian Film Festival, There’ll Be Retro Japanese Softcore Porn and So Much More
Cinephiles, take note: the New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF) opens June 30, and this year’s roster has just been announced. With “just shy of…
Jim Jarmusch, Wes Anderson, and Wanda Sykes Want You to See These French Films Outdoors
It’s always amusing to hear new transplants to New York speak excitedly of summer in the city. Those of us who have lived here longer…
Attention Indie Film Fans: One Week to the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival
Here’s some good news for New York’s numerous indie film fans – the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival is only a week away. Running June…
Week in Film: Dinosaurus!, a Highly Accurate Prehistoric Epic, Stalker Returns
Combat Cops Thursday May 11, 9:30 pm at Nitehawk: $12 Perhaps you’ve heard of The Deuce Jockeys, the resident VJs at Nitehawk whose film series…