‘Illegitimate’ Director Adrian Sitaru Talks Only Shooting First Takes and Trusting His Actors
We talk to the director behind the drama, which premiered at the 2016 Berlin Film Festival....
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[Berlin Review] Genius
Genius is an exploration of the creative partnership between author Thomas Wolfe (Jude Law) and editor Maxwell Perkins (Colin Firth). Embedded in that quick syn...
[Berlin Review] Alone in Berlin
A simple act of defiance against the Nazi regime inspired German author Hans Fallada to write the novel Every Man Dies Alone. The themes of Fallada's novel reso...
[Review] Jimmy’s Hall
Jimmy’s Hall, rumored to be Ken Loach’s final film, condenses the various political ideologies and conflicts of post-civil war Ireland into a manageable histori...
Zade Constantine’s Top 10 Films of 2014
On average, moviegoers paid $8.12 to see a film in 2014. Those of us living in major cities, however, have grown accustomed to handing over $12.50 or mor...
David Ayer and Jon Bernthal Discuss the Brutality, Accuracy, and Influences of ‘Fury’
"Everything in the movie happened. Everything in the movie is real."...
[Review] Fury
The year is 1945. An opening title card states that “every man, woman and child” have been mobilized to kill the Allies. David Ayer’s latest film, Fury, spends ...
[NYFF Review] Iris
In 1970, David and Albert Maysles unleashed their seminal documentary Gimme Shelter. The brothers captured the violent events at the 1969 Altamont Speedway Fest...
[NYFF Review] Time Out of Mind
Finding a link between the shared title of Oren Moverman's third feature film, Time Out of Mind, and Bob Dylan's 1997 album took a little effort. Moverman co-wr...
[NYFF Review] Whiplash
Late in Whiplash, Terence Fletcher, studio band leader and instructor at Shaffer Conservatory of Music, argues that "the most harmful words in the English langu...
