We’ll never actually see Orson Welles’ final film The Other Side of the Wind, no more than we’ll ever actually see Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) or Touch of Evil (1958). But whereas the lat…
They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead Movie Review | NYFF 2018
During the post-screening panel following the New York Film Festival premiere of his new film They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead, award-winning documentarian Morgan Neville revealed that of all the artists…
10 Film Noir for Beginners
So what is film noir? A French term literally translating to “black film,” historians will tell you film noir was an unofficial cycle of American films released in the 40s and 50s that usually centere…
Out of the Past: “The Asphalt Jungle” (1950)
The Asphalt Jungle is filled with clichés: a criminal with a moral code, a double crossing millionaire with a blonde bombshell mistress, a crooked cop, and a heist that goes wrong. In the hand’s of an…
Out of the Past: “The Maltese Falcon” (1941)
It is not made of gold or bedazzled by jewels; if you saw it in a pawn shop you wouldn’t give it a second glance. But, it is the stuff that dreams are made of and worth its weight in plunder and blood…
First Time Fest Filmmakers’ Interviews
In our last few articles, we went over the First Time Fest and the closing night awards, so here are a few interviews we had with the filmmakers of their prestigious films. Gesa Jäger, editor o…
First Time Fest: Second Time Around Closing Night Awards
As was covered in our past article about the event, the First Time Fest gives new filmmakers the opportunity to get their film established and distributed so that their efforts may be recognized for t…