Eric reports from the New York Film Festival on My Undesirable Friends – Part II: Exile, Julia Loktev’s massive globe-spanning documentary about dissident Russian journalists.
NYFF Journal: My Wife Cries
Eric reports from the New York Film Festival on My Wife Cries, as wonderful a film Angela Schanelec has ever made.
NYFF Journal: The Diary of a Chambermaid
Eric reports from the New York Film Festival on The Diary of a Chambermaid, Radu Jude’s most sentimental tale yet.
NYFF Journal: Hanabi
Eric reports from the New York Film Festival on Ana Vaz’s beautiful new feature, Hanabi.
Anne Hathaway is fully committed to the bit in Verity
This film flits somewhere between the absurd and the ridiculous, while somehow remaining predictable. This movie, directed by Michael Showalter, is flawed (and often embarrassingly so) but has something going for it: Anne Hathaway is fully committed to the part.
Digger… what the heck did I just watch
It doesn’t take a lot of imagination for most Americans to understand the concept and realities of the world in which Digger lives. A ridiculously wealthy man living on his own save a nearly-deceased cat he holds incredibly dear and a few employees that flow in and out of his rooms like water at his bidding. On the day we are introduced to him, he finds out the drilling he so desperately had been pining after in Alaska has caused a crack in the ice shelf creating a brand new and incredibly dangerous speeding projectile of an iceberg headed for Norway. With no warning, things shift and you’re seeing the story in a whole new light. Tension galore throughout the two hour run time and you’re not sure if you hate it or love it, but it got your attention.
In La Gradiva, a modern coming-of-age among ancient ruins
There are so many fantastic French coming-of-age films that to direct one, especially one as self-consciously grand as Marine Atlan’s La Gradiva necessitates contending with that most hallowed of national traditions. In some ways, La Gradiva is an epic-sized version of countryside group portraits like Graduate First or Wild Reeds, following a class of French high school seniors on a field trip to Pompeii just before they receive their college admissions results. Amidst the ruins of the ancient city, the film is about a group of children on the cusp of adulthood who in the process of connecting with ancient tragedy, find themselves confronted with their own mortality.
In Primetime Robert Pattinson is the main predator-hunting attraction.
This year, documentarian Lance Oppenheim makes the leap to docudrama thriller to bring audiences inside the grimy operation behind To Catch a Predator.
As ever, Orcas Island Film Festival wows with blockbuster line-up of must-see films
In their twelfth year of running a festival on the gem of the San Juan islands, it’s basically a given that the small but mighty Orcas Island Film Festival will quietly drops one of the season’s most complete and compelling film festival lineups of the year. The quality of the program is an embarrassment of riches and it’s basically in our backyard (provided that your backyard has a seaplane or a ferry boat).
The 5th Avenue Theatre’s A Chorus Line Is a Big Gamble That Pays Off
When the Fifth Avenue Theatre announced they were kicking off their 2026-27 season with a revival of A Chorus Line earlier this …