Directed by Marina Zenovich, Jerry Brown: The Disrupter is an entertaining political documentary culling upon extensive archival footage from Brown’s tenure as...
One of the most productive indie filmmakers working today, Robert Machoian has kept busy making features and shorts, sometimes with longtime collaborator Rodri...
Despite the intentions of any director or director of photography, the person with the final say in how a film will look when screened for an audience is the p...
A departure from Cirque du Soleil’s previous theatrical features (2012’s Worlds Away and the 2000 3D IMAX short Journey of a Man), Dawn Porter’s Cirque du Sole...
A comprehensive, personal, and kaleidoscopic look at representation, Elvis Mitchell’s Is That Black Enough For You?!? is a passionate and loving walk through f...
A meditation on growing old, growing wiser, and all of life’s transitions, Ralph Arlyck’s personal documentary I Like It Here is a warm, witty, loose, discursi...
Film connoisseur, cultural critic, and master conversationalist Elvis Mitchell crafts a kaleidoscopic yet personal history of Black cinema with his feature fil...
The inescapable problem at the core of any omnibus or anthology film with multiple cooks in the kitchen is, by all design, things will be uneven. Yet V/H/S/99 ...
For die-hards who have been there from the beginning, it can be frustrating to watch the evolution of a filmmaker's work as they branch out and try their hand ...
The relationship between documentary subject and documentarian has been fraught with conflict since the genre’s evolution beyond “actualities” and into a narra...
John Fink is a New York City area-based critic, filmmaker, educator and curator. He currently serves as the Artistic Director of the Buffalo International Film Festival.
