From the moment you watch the opening stunning shot of a gazelle running across the desert landscape in total silence you know you are in the hands of a master filmmaker. The gazelle is chased by men in a Land …
At NYFF Women Face Down Jihadists in Abderrahmane Sissako’s Timbuktu Read more »
There was a time when the word documentary conjured up endless shots of talking heads strung together with a voice-over and shown on PBS. Although topical and informative, they were often boring. I dreaded documentaries and if you were a …
As long as I can remember there has been a heavy presence of French films at the New York Film Festival. France has always had a strong film industry due in part to protections and support from the government. American …
The 51st New York Film Festival: French Cinema at the NYFF Read more »
In 1975 Claude Lanzmann filmed a series of interviews with Benjamin Murmelstein, the last President of the Jewish Council in the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia. Murmelstein was living quietly in Rome at the time, yet after years of silence he …
The 51st New York Film Festival: The Last of the Unjust Read more »
This is my third day watching films at The Tribeca Film Festival, and I know by the week’s end I will have only scratched the surface of the 90 or so films that are showing here. So far, so good. …
Tribeca Film Festival – Nishua Pahuja’s The World Before Her Read more »