- Los Angeles Film Festival – A Quick Review
If visiting a film festival is on your wish list - the place should undoubtedly be the Los Angeles Film Festival. Touted as the most happening film festivals amongst the others in the circuit, the LA Film Festival is here again to make you drool over it!...
- Los Angeles Film Festival – A Quick Review
If visiting a film festival is on your wish list - the place should undoubtedly be the Los Angeles Film Festival. Touted as the most happening film festivals amongst the others in the circuit, the LA Film Festival is here again to make you drool over it!...
- Goings on About Town: Above and Beyond
IMAGINE SCIENCE FILM FESTIVAL
This festival, which is in its second year, was founded by Alexis Gambis, who holds a doctorate in genetics and molecular biology and who is currently a film student at New York University. It features movies that have a grounding in credible science. Fifty films, from . . ....
- Goings on About Town: On the Horizon
MOVIES
STARS OF DAVID
Jan. 11-26
The twenty-first edition of the New York Jewish Film Festival, at the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Jewish Museum, offers previously unreleased interviews done by Claude Lanzmann for “Shoah” and the rediscovered 1922 silent film “Breaking Home Ties . . ....
- Goings on About Town: On the Horizon
MOVIES
STARS OF DAVID
Jan. 11-26
The twenty-first edition of the New York Jewish Film Festival, at the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Jewish Museum, offers previously unreleased interviews done by Claude Lanzmann for “Shoah” and the rediscovered 1922 silent film “Breaking Home Ties . . ....
- Goings on About Town: On the Horizon
MOVIES
STARS OF DAVID
Jan. 11-26
The twenty-first edition of the New York Jewish Film Festival, at the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Jewish Museum, offers previously unreleased interviews done by Claude Lanzmann for “Shoah” and the rediscovered 1922 silent film “Breaking Home Ties . . ....
- Digital X-Ray Systems – At Home And On The Go
Digital medical images can be produced for a much lower cost than film x-rays when you take into consideration the cost of film and developing chemicals, and they are created in a matter of seconds, which is not the case with film images. Certain digital x-ray systems can even be used to retrofit your existing film x-ray equipment, so that you can build up your new digital system at a time...
- Goings on About Town: On the Horizon
MOVIES
BROTHER ACT
Oct. 20-27
After emigrating to the United States, in 1949, the Lithuanian brothers Jonas and Adolfas Mekas quickly became crucial figures in New York’s independent-film scene, not least as co-founders of Film Culture magazine. Anthology Film Archives (of which the eighty-nine-year . . ....
- Installing Paint Protection Film
Paint protective film is gaining more and more popularity as a way to protect valuable paint jobs against road debris and other hazards. Many professional installers are available to do the job and are often the best option for many people. But for those of a more do it yourself nature, the film can be applied with great success by anyone with patience and a little common sense....
- The Different Types of Window Tinting Film
Window tinting film has some fairly straightforward benefits to a driver, including heat dissipation and privacy. However, there are many types of tint film on the market, made of different materials and serving a variety of roles....
- Choosing Protective Film For Your Car
Choosing protective film for your car is an important task. Clear bra paint protection film can help your car's paint job look brand new for many years to come....
- Goings on About Town: Above and Beyond
goatTitle-->“THE BIRTH OF PROMOTION: INVENTING FILM PUBLICITY IN THE SILENT-FILM ERA”
This exhibit at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts’ Vincent Astor Gallery traces the origin of the film-publicity business. It features programs, advertisements, and lobby cards from 1890 to . . ....
- Making a Great Video
You should film more than you think you will need, because you can edit out whatever it is that you do not want, but once the event is over you cannot add anything to the film. So spend a bit more time filming than you think you need to, you will be glad you did....
- Goings on About Town: On the Horizon
MOVIES
HOME AND AWAY
April 11-17
The theme of the New York African Film Festival, at Film Society of Lincoln Center, is “21st Century: The Homecoming,” a rubric that incorporates such films as Rachid Bouchareb’s “Outside the Law,” about three Algerian brothers in postwar . . ....
- Anthony Lane: “The Shout” at the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
The components of “The Shout,” which enjoys a rare screening at the Film Society of Lincoln Center on Oct. 13, Oct. 15, and Oct. 18, could scarcely be more varied. The film, released in 1978, was made in England and directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, a Pole. It comes . . ....
- How Paint Protection Film Can Help Your Car
You may already know that maintenance and prevention are very important for your car. Paint protective film can be one of the ways that you protect your vehicle for the long haul....
- Anthony Lane: Akira Kurosawa’s “Stray Dog,” at Film Forum.
Even those who find Akira Kurosawa’s work with his favored leading man, Toshiro Mifune, to be a touch overheated must admit that, when it comes to “Stray Dog” (1949), there is good reason for the heat. The film—which screens at Film Forum Jan. 6-14 . . ....
- Richard Brody: “House of Bamboo,” at Film Forum Aug. 26-Sept. 1.
The most exciting spasm of violence in Samuel Fuller’s wide-screen, color-splashed 1955 film noir, “House of Bamboo” (at Film Forum Aug. 26-Sept. 1), is one that doesn’t happen. It involves an American crime boss (Robert Ryan) who runs a syndicate in . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Artistic Film Posters
Looking back in Hollywood history there have been some iconic images from productions. From grainy black and white photographs with splashy text to the seamless terminal generated graphics used today, artsy film posters are here to stay....
- Gregory Zinman: An artwork’s cameo in Terence Malick’s “The Tree of Life.”
Terrence Malick’s new film, “The Tree of Life,” won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival last month, despite the smattering of boos that followed its première. The cosmically tinged movie, about a family in Waco, Texas, in the nineteen-fifties . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Richard Brody: Robert Aldrich’s film-noir masterwork, “Kiss Me Deadly.”
paragraph class="noindent">If the film noir were to be forgotten, Robert Aldrich’s frenzied 1955 masterwork, “Kiss Me Deadly” (Criterion) might serve as the supreme reminder of what the genre had been. From the film’s nocturnal opening images, of a terrified woman (Cloris Leachman . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Tips to Buy X-Ray Film
The X-Rays can make things that the naked eyes cannot spot to be spotted well. These are very valuable in the detection and treatment of injuries, diseases and the like. These will help doctors to make efficient diagnosis. Related to the result of the x-rays, the film for x-rays is very important....
- 7 Reasons to Tint Your Vehicle
Vehicle window tinting can make your car or truck look great. There are a multitude of other benefits that you can get from a quality window film installation. From energy savings to reduced glare, window film does more than just make you look good!...
- Goings on About Town: On the Horizon
MOVIES
DARK MAGUS
Aug. 12-25
A specialist in the short-tempered, moody characters of film noir, Robert Ryan also plied his hard-nosed art in a spate of Westerns and war movies. Film Forum’s retrospective of his films includes Sam Peckinpah’s “The Wild Bunch,” . . ....
- Mark Singer: Ghetto Film School screens “Prank” at HBO.
Say you’re a reasonably precocious high-school student in New York City and you believe a college admissions committee would take proper note if you were to make a short film in China featuring actors who, because they happen to be Chinese, speak only Chinese. Your to-do . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Movies and Entertainment – The Definition of the Documentary Film
The definition of a documentary film includes the fact that it is one of three basic creative modes, the others being narrative fiction and experimental avant-garde, and documentaries have a purpose, viewpoint and approach. The documentary form evolves from the formative process - as either scripted or spontaneous, and they are limited to reality or actuality....
- Nick Paumgarten: The return of Polaroid.
Technologies designed to counteract or allay the passage of time usually wind up falling prey to it. For example, the Polaroid instant camera. The Polaroid Corporation went bankrupt in 2001, and by 2009 it had shut down its instant-film business. Enthusiasts snapped up the remaining film stock, and a . . . (Subscription required.)...
- The Crusader Era – Robin Hood the Classic Hero
The infamous heroic outlaw of the 13th century robbed from the rich and gave to the poor. This character is still legendary today as the tale of Robin Hood has hit the small screen and big screen many times over the years. The oldest film dating back over 100 years a silent film of 1909 entitled "Robin Hood and His Merry Men". Douglas Fairbanks did another silent Robin Hood movie in 1922....
