Okay, okay, echoes of Tyra Banks or that obnoxious announcer from THE BACHELOR are now ringing in my ears (”The most shocking episode YET!”) but in all seriousness, this summer’s installment of ROOFTOP FILMS is poised to be invigorating, exciting, funny, drunken, stimulating, romantic, sexy, wacky, crazy, cool, hip, whatever — all the best adjectives [...]

I love doing post-film festival memes, not only because I love lists, but also because it’s nice to be interactive and see how the experience rated for all of the people with whom I shared it. So, here goes:
1) Film that pulled at my heartstrings the most:ALWYN. In only 13 minutes, this film reminded me [...]

As one walks through the streets of Philadelphia, he or she can’t help but notice the stunning and original mosaic murals peppering the city walls, particularly around the traditionally bohemian neighborhood of South Street. These murals — maximalist splendors of tiles, shards of mirror, . . . . . . [...]

My 5th consecutive (and 6th total) Full Frame exceeded my expectations; in fact, I’ve had the best time I’ve had since the first time I came here.
It’s easy to get jaded in this business of festival hopping — the same Marriott, the same cinema, the same old same old! And it was [...]

This past Tuesday, just two days after the beautiful hubbub of the Cinema Eye Honors, when we had all JUST ABOUT recovered from our hangovers, a community of nonfiction film -makers and -lovers gathered at the IFC Center to watch Geoffrey Smith’s riveting and evocative THE ENGLISH SURGEON. It was a little bit bittersweet to [...]

Alex Karpovsky’s highly original docu-narrative hybrid, THE HOLE STORY, is one of the first features I acquired for IndiePix. I met Alex at the Newport Film Festival four years ago — the very same festival where I first met my future colleague, Ryan Harrington. That very year, 2006, he was chosen as one of Filmmaker [...]