In 1975, a club boxer from Bayonne, New Jersey got the opportunity of a lifetime. He was offered a chance to fight Muhammad Ali for a shot at the world’s Heavyweight title. The fight was considered a joke: a North…
Tribeca Review: Love After Love
Like its last rattle, death lingers and grief hurts. There is no easy, manual prescribed manner in which someone deals with the loss of a loved one, especially when that someone was the glue that held so much of a…
Movie Review: Rupture
During my viewing of Rupture, a friend of mine was streaming a session of the board game Life on Facebook Live. Despite the fact that said film I was watching contained scenes of body horror, spiders, and deformed aliens, I…
Tribeca Review: City of Ghosts
I can only imagine that one of the hardest parts of being a documentary filmmaker is not letting the quality and importance of your footage be eclipsed by a lack of thematic focus or talent. Consider Bernard-Henri Lévy’s recent documentary…
Tribeca 2017: The Wedding Plan
Perhaps that great American poet Jim Jarmusch put it best when he said: “Poetry in translation is like taking a shower with [a] raincoat on.” No matter the effort, subtle cultural nuances are inevitably lost during translation. These go beyond…
Tribeca Review: The Divine Order
It’s difficult to judge Petra Biondina Volpe’s The Divine Order because its individual parts feel so drastically different from each other. The film follows a Swiss housewife named Nora (Marie Leuenberger) who experiences a political awakening and helps organize and…
Movie Review: The Promise
Perhaps this demonstrates a lack of creative initiative, but one would believe that if a director was to tackle a subject as weighty as the Armenian genocide, they would not choose to use it as a backdrop to a schmaltzy…