BAMcinemaFest

First Trailer for Reverse Shot’s Feature ‘Feast of the Epiphany’ Blends Narrative and Documentary Storytelling

After premiering at BAMCinemaFest last year, the feature directorial debut from the Reverse Shot team Jeff Reichert, Michael Koresky, and Farihah Zaman will...

‘Light From Light’ Director Paul Harrill on the Comfort in Ghost Stories and Breaking Screenwriting Rules

We discussed how horror has conditioned our minds, the emotional themes the film explores, casting Jim Gaffigan, and more....

15 Films to See in September

Our September preview features a few of the notable films that recently landed at festivals and beyond, including a good amount of genre fun....

BAMcinemaFest Review: Dominican Drama ‘De Lo Mio’ Excels Where Words Fail

De Lo Mio begins with a tidy visual metaphor: a man carefully opens many blinds to let light into a dark room. The three siblings in Diana Peralta’s debut featu...

BAMcinemaFest Review: ‘Sunrise/Sunset’ Gazes on NYC as a Foreign Metropolis

The story of filmmaking in New York City is incomplete without consideration of the foreign-language films that are regularly made here. Such films—off the top ...

BAMcinemaFest Review: ‘The Hottest August’ is an Expressive, Expansive Portrait of Summer in NYC

Where better than New York City to make a structuralist film? Cities are iterative, their street grids diagrams of theme and variation, and New York most of all...

First Trailer for Lulu Wang’s Sundance Sensation ‘The Farewell’

Opening with the title card "Based on an actual lie," which has been adopted as the film's tagline, Lulu Wang's Sundance sensation The Farewell navigates th...

BAMcinemaFest Review: ‘Two Plains & a Fancy’ is a Different Kind of Revisionist Western

It is infrequent -- but not totally rare -- to come across a film where a singular, simple formal decision fully encapsulates the underlying ethos and intention...

First Trailer for Robert Greene’s ‘Bisbee ’17’ Investigates the Reverberating Pain of a Community’s Past

A staple at on the independent film circuit for as much as his editing skills (Golden Exits, Listen Up Philip, Queen of Earth) as his astoundingly revelator...

BAMCinemaFest Review: ‘Feast of the Epiphany’ is a Continually Surprising Drama in Two Parts

The history of film critics contributing to or creating actual films is long and storied. From the groundbreaking works of Cahiers du cinéma writers that made u...

News

Song Kang-ho Sets First Post-Parasite Project: Emergency Declaration With Jeon Do-yeon & Lee Byung-hun

New Directors/New Films 2020 Lineup Includes Boys State, Surge, Babyteeth & More

The Chase is On in Exclusive Clip from Diao Yinan’s The Wild Goose Lake

Trailers

Bad Education Trailer: Hugh Jackman Gets Caught in a School Scandal

Fruit Chan’s Landmark Indie Made in Hong Kong Get 4K Theatrical Restoration Trailer

Run Trailer: Sarah Paulson Leads New Thriller from Searching Director Aneesh Chaganty

Reviews

Emma. Review: Anya Taylor-Joy Skillfully Maneuvers a Stately Jane Austen Adaptation

Standing Up, Falling Down Review: Ben Schwartz and Billy Crystal Search for Clarity

The Night Clerk Review: Tye Sheridan & Ana de Armas Get Caught Up in a Murder Mystery

Features

New to Streaming: Dark Waters, Meek’s Cutoff, Frankie & More

NYC Weekend Watch: Black Heroines, Climate Crisis, ‘Come and See’ & More

New to Streaming: Good Time, End of the Century, The Staggering Girl & More

Interviews

Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne on Young Ahmed, Arabic Teachings, and Taking Religion Seriously

Inside the Revolutionary Visual Effects Process of The Irishman

Angela Schanelec on I Was at Home, But…, the Kindness of Ozu, and Her Filmmaking Philosophies

Podcasts

The B-Side – Harrison Ford

The Film Stage Show Ep. 386 – A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon

The Film Stage Show Ep. 385 – Birds of Prey