BAMcinemaFest Review: Ougie Pak Explores Greek Tragedy on the Fly in Clytaemnestra
Greek tragedy echos through the modern-day Korean #MeToo movement in Ougie Pak’s Clytaemnestra. Made on the fly at an acting workshop in Greece, the film follo...
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BAMcinemaFest Unveils 2021 Lineup
While the 2020 edition was understandably canceled due to the pandemic, BAMcinemaFest will be returning this year for a virtual edition from June 23-39, the sa...
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...