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Oscar Doc Shortlist; Sight & Sound’s Best of 2012
Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi's 5 Broken Cameras Oscar Doc Race Shortlist Today, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the shortlist of 15 films vying for a Best Documentary Feature...
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What’s Your Favorite Brazilian Film?
Brazilian culture is so much more than soccer and Samba, and Brazilian cinema in particular has long gone tragically overlooked. It's for this reason that we are excited to partner with ImageNation on...
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Movement and the Moving Pictures
Broadway star Ryan Steele in Alan Brown’s Five Dances Film Society of Lincoln Center is proud to announce the 41st edition of Dance on Camera. This marks the 17th consecutive year in which the Film...
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More Year-End Lists & Awards; Slamdance Lineup Announced
Jessica Chastain in Zero Dark Thirty National Board of Review Winners Just two days after it took home the top prize with the New York Film Critics Circle, Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty dominated...
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A Doc-Heavy Weekend for NYC
After ethical handwringing, attempts at suppression, and a lot of angry emails, The Sheik and I opens today Last year, filmmaker-provocateur Caveh Zahedi was asked by a Middle Eastern Biennial to make...
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“The Master” Wins Big With Los Angeles Critics, but “Amour” Takes Top Prize
A scene from The Master. As the year winds to a close, film critics in cities around the country continue to gather to name the best movies and performances of the year. Today in Southern California...
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Season Spotlight: “Life of Pi”
As awards season kicks into high gear, The Season begins daily spotlights on the films that are receiving (or, in our opinion, should be receiving) end-of-year buzz. These posts are aimed at...
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Critics Awards, British Indie Awards, Sundance Road Tour
Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel's Leviathan Critics Awards Round-Up This past weekend was chock full of awards season chatter with several critics groups around the country revealing their...
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Season Spotlight: “5 Broken Cameras”
Directors Guy Davidi and Emad Burnat. Photo: Godlis As awards season kicks into high gear, The Season begins daily spotlights on the films that are receiving (or, in our opinion, should be receiving)...
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Music, Experimentation and New York Stories Bind NYJFF Lineup
The Ballad of Weeping Spring Get out of the cold and into the cool with the 22nd annual New York Jewish Film Festival, which opens on January 9 with A.K.A. Doc Pomus, a documentary about the blues...
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Season Spotlight: “Beasts of the Southern Wild”
Quvenzhané Wallis in Beasts of the Southern Wild As awards season kicks into high gear, The Season is serving up daily spotlights on the films that are receiving (or, in our opinion, should be...
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SAG and Critics’ Choice Nods; Rotterdam CineMart
Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway in Les Misérables SAG Award Nominees On Wednesday morning, Busy Phillips and Taye Diggs presented the nominees for the 19th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. Tied for...
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Golden Globes Loves “Lincoln”; Surprises: “Salmon” Up, “Beasts” Down
Steven Spielberg's Lincoln led the Golden Globe nominations with seven nods today. Yet, it is surprise inclusions and exclusions that tend to generate the most chatter among those who closely follow...
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Season Spotlight: “Lincoln”
When John Ford made Young Mr. Lincoln, Hollywood was enjoying what might have been its highest-ever cultural sway. It was 1939, often considered the American cinema’s flagship year—the one that gave...
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Film Comment’s Best of 2012 Lists
We're approaching the shortest day of the year, but fortunately Film Comment has two nice, long lists to get you through it! On Friday, the magazine weighed in on the best released and unreleased...
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Interview: Destin Daniel Cretton, “I Am Not a Hipster”
Destin Daniel Cretton Destin Daniel Cretton's stunning debut, I Am Not a Hipster, follows Brook, a San Diego-based musician whose three sisters and estranged father show up for a week to scatter his...
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An Evening with Tom Cruise Postponed
Dear Friends, Out of respect for the families who lost loved ones in Newtown, CT, we are postponing tonight's fundraising event with Tom Cruise to benefit the 50th anniversary fund, which supports...
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Season Spotlight: “How to Survive a Plague”
David France’s stirring documentary How to Survive a Plague does more that just recount the history of ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), the direct action advocacy group founded in 1987 during...
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NYTimes Year-End Recap; Best Criticism of 2012
The Master Chicago Critics Awards (Along with San Francisco, Kansas City, and Detroit) On Monday, film critics in the Windy City announced the winners of their year-end awards in film. As you might've...
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Season Spotlight: “Moonrise Kingdom”
It was only a matter of time until Wes Anderson made Moonrise Kingdom. His films, with their golden palette, swishing whip-pans, and romantic use of music, have an inherent nostalgia to them. The...
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