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Ritchie Amps Up His Game for Sherlock Holmes 2

Review of Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

Tower Heist: The Big Payback
Garbo, The Man Who Loved Spying

Edmon Roch’s New docu-thriller
Let’s Hope the Piano Bench Holds Up!

Award Winning New Doc Pianomania Opens

All Film Articles

Let Sleeping Aliens Lie

A View of The Thing
The Teacher Salary Project

An Inside Look at Teaching in America
Exploring the Life of Serge Gainsbourg

New Biopic Follows French ’60’s Singer-Songwriter Serge Gainsbourg
Therapists Are To Life, What Prostitutes Are To Love?

So Claims New Erotic Drama – Special Treatment
Racial Lines Meshed by The Help

Tate Taylor makes her Directorial Debut
Summer Love

Names of Love (LE NOM DES GENS)
Ironclad Holds

Director Jonathan English’s New Movie Surprises
No Crowne-ing Glory For Larry

Larry Crowne Movie Review
Paying Homage to Roman Polanski

BAMcinѐmatek Presents Polanski x3
Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times

Technology’s impact on an 160 year old publication
A Summer Film Festival Like You’ve Never Seen Before

Rooftop Films’ Summer Series
Plethora of Premieres

BAMcinemafest Opens In Brooklyn
Passione Gives Life

Turturro Brings Music of Naples To Big Screen
Sizzling Viva Riva!

New High-Octane Crime Drama From Music Box Films
Summer Sunday Classics

The Hamptons International Film Festival Presents Free Classic Films
Rejoice and Shout

The Newest Work By Director Don McGlynn
One Lucky Elephant
Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird

A New Documentary About The Author Of One Of Our Literary Treasures.
Kenny Powers in King Arthur’s Court

Your Highness Movie Review
Footprints

New Film From Award-Winning Writer Steven Peros
Circo

From first time feature writer/director Aaron Schock
An Extra Terrestrial Comedy, With Space Balls

Paul, A Movie review
Orgasm, Inc.

A new documentary looking at Female Sexual Dysfunction (FSD).
A Celebration of Women and Leadership

The first annual Athena Film Festival opens
Underwater Drama That Will Give You the Bends

Review of Sanctum
If I Want to Whistle I Whistle

Romanian director Florin Serban speaks about his new film.
It’s a Bad Bro-mance

The Dilemma
Plastic Planet

A gutsy documentary by Werner Boote
Every Day – Marriage, Kids and Aging Parents

The film stars Helen Hunt, Liev Schreiber with Brian Dennehy, Eddie Izzard and Carla Gugino
Can A Psychedelic Plant Release Your Demons?

I’m Dangerous With Love – An underground adventure into shamanic ritual.
Between a Fock and a Hard Place

Encore’s Spyder Darling’s look at those Little Fockers!
Alien Girl

A taut crime thriller by first time feature film director.
Fashion Model Faye Dunaway

Film Forum presents a special event of Puzzle of a Downfall Child, with director Jerry Schatzberg in person.
A Nightcap to Remember

French Institute Screens Crimer Nightcap
Suso Cecchi d’Amico, Italian Screenwriter

Film Society of Lincoln Center presents a retrospective of her work.
Undertow

A unique gay romance and ghost story set on the beautiful Peruvian coastline
BAND

Adam Pendleton refashions Godard’s Sympathy for the Devil
World Cinema Foundation at BAM

Scorsese’s WCF screens 12 restored works from around the globe.
Today’s Specials

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart’s Aasif Mandvi stars in this delicious movie.
Shindo’s Onibaba

Murderers, marauders and macabre at the Japan Society
Every Man for Himself

Goddard’s view of prostitutes, pimps, bellboys and businessmen
Con Artist Mark Kostabi
Tears of Rage If You Miss Raging Bull

Now screening at the Film Forum
Faint Praise

In honor of 127 Hours, eight other faint-tastic films
Megamind: A Great Premise Fullfilled

And a list of our five favorite evil sidekicks
And The Winner Is…

The Britannia Film Awards
Interview: Ryan Kwanten

The actor talks about his new film, Red Hill and, of course, True Blood
Lebowski Fest

Just remember to abide, man
The One, The Only Stanley Donen

Including five of his most iconic scenes
DOC NYC

More than 40 documentaries screened from Nov. 3-9
Films to See at the Big Apple Film Festival

Over 100 films in five days, from November 2-6
Our Favorite Fictionial Governors

But seriously, remember to vote!
The Short Films of Roman Polanski

Including Murder, the director’s first film
Frantic with Ford and Polanski

The unappreciated film screens tonight at BAM
Review of the Tron: Legacy Preview

We saw 20+ minutes last night, and here what’s we thought
Roundup of Special Halloween Screenings

From Rocky Horror to Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Five Days of Film Fright

Day 5: Five things you didn’t know about Psycho
Five Days of Film Fright

Day 4: The most hilarious adaptations of Frankenstein
Five Days of Film Fright

Day 3: Film Society of Lincoln Center’s “Scary Movie” series
Interview: Kerthy Fix

The documentarian discusses her new film about the Magnetic Fields, Strange Powers, now playing at the Film Forum
Five Days of Film Fright

Day 2: Predicting the next vampires and zombies
Five Days of Film Fright

Day 1: Length of time between original and sequel
A Stephin Merritt-Presented Film Series

With an appearance by the Magnetic Fields frontman himself
Is Jackie Brown Tarantino’s Worst Film? Or His Best?

Re-evaluate tonight at the Film Forum
Speaking In Tongues

Less Talking Heads, more literally speaking in tongues
Goonies For a Good Cause

And the five best Truffle Shuffles
Six Best Back to the Future Props for Sale

Now you too can own a DeLorean Time Machine
Wild at Heart at the IFC Center

And the David Lynch Accessibility Scale
Lewd Valentine

Ten films that went from NC-17 to R
Our Crackpot Theory for The Black Swan

Which is, of course, 100% accurate
Law and Order

But not the Law and Order you’re thinking of
The Most Depressing Simpsons Opening Ever

Featuring dead cats, sad pandas and slave labor
The Winners at the Hamptons International Film Festival Are…

And what it means for Oscar season
Six Best (and One Worst): Actors Portraying Musicians

Is that Cate Blanchett or Bob Dylan?
You’re Forgetting Someone, Vulture

What about the true fashion icon of Harry Potter?
Hamptons Film Fest Kicks Off with Barney’s Version

Paul Giamatti Stars in Barneys Version
Back to the Cinema

25th anniversary of the greatest time travel film ever
The Hamptons Film Festival Has It All

The 2010 Hampton’s Film Festival Kicks Off Oct 7-11th
Girl Vampire and Director Discuss Let Me In

Also known as Chloë Moretz and Matt Reeves
Why We Only Have Ourselves to Blame for the Cancellation of Lone Star

We can’t blame Fox for this one
Stars Wars: 3D

Surprising no one
Q&A Session with The Social Network Gang

Including a question from this humble writer
He’s Here

Spike Jonze speaking at Opening Ceremony tonight
A Night of Kazan

America, America and A Letter to Elia at the NYFF
Ten Reactions to The Social Network

We saw the film earlier today. Here’s what we think.
More Than Your Average Ace of Cakes

D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus capture the Kings of Pastry
Hipsters and Cinephiles Rejoice

The Williamsburg Film Festival is here!
Red Carpet Photos of The Breakfast Club Cast

Molly Ringwald, still breaking hearts
Interview: Marshall Fine

We speak to the noted film critic about hosting the Symphony Space’s new film program
Rooftop Films Celebrates Independent Film Week

Including a screening of Howl
Ten Fall Films to See (and Five to Avoid)

Yes to Harry Potter, no to Yogi Bear
Which Baseball Stadium Has the Best Movie Scenes?

Yet again, Red Sox vs. Yankees—and the Mets, too.
Interview: Frank Welker

The highest grossing actor of all-time is also the voice of your childhood
Meet Mark Romanek and Carey Mulligan

Director and star of Never Let Me Go speak tonight at the Apple Store
Lesbians, Vampires and David Bowie

All this and more in The Hunger, screening tonight at BAM
In Conversation with Amy Ryan

The Jack Goes Boating actress talks about her career tonight
Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere Wins the Golden Lion

And the history of other American films to win the prestigious award
Interview: Adam Brody

The Romantics star talks about filming in New York and the legacy of Seth Cohen
The Music of Style Wars

The seminal graffiti film, featuring some amazing hip hop, screens tonight at BAM
Interview: Devon Graye

The star of Legendary talks about working with Patricia Clarkson and playing a teenage serial killer
Create Your Own Middle-earth Masterpiece

Our suggestion: something to do with taters
Will Bill Murray Be There?

The Life Aquatic screens tonight in Red Hook
Jack Goes Boating Unfolds NYC’s Working Class

A conversation with John Ortiz and Philip Seymour Hoffman
Rohmer Series Comes to Its End with Autumn Tale

A great conclusion to a great tribute
Is The American Really About America?

No, not all, and other confusing geographical movie names
9-11: The Musical

It’s like “Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)”…but in movie form!
The Raspberry Brothers Attempt to Make Fun of a Cyborg Assassin

Wish them luck at the Knitting Factory
NSFW: How Encore Did at the Emmys

It’s that gruesome
Encore and the Emmys

Really, we like TV too!
The Tim Burton/Johnny Depp Believability Scale

Edward Scissorhands screens tonight at Symphony Space
Jean-Luc Godard to the Oscars: “…”

Academy wants to give him an honorary award, but he’s nowhere to be found
Vampires Have Brought In $7 Billion to Hollywood Economy Since Nov. 2008

In unrelated news, hobgoblin revenue drops
Avatar Re-Released in Theaters This Friday

And the re-release schedule of other high grossing films
See an Outdoor Film Before It Gets Too Late

Or cold. Sigh, where did the summer go?
How I Stole Food from the Set of The Switch

And lived to tell the tale—and got a turkey burger too
The Tillman Story

Documentary about the man who left the NFL to join the Army
Give Rooftop Film Series a Shot

Tonight’s your last chance to do so, after all
The Brilliant Ad for The Last Exorcism

Viral marketing at its best
The Only Name in Hollywood That Would Get Booed During a Trailer

Can you guess who?
The Muppets Take Manhattan

If not for the third Muppet film, there’d be no…
Schedule for the New York Film Festival

From The Social Network to Hereafter, and everything in between

Summer Meltdown

Lincoln Center screens some of cinema’s best rock films
Deep Impact: Deadly and True(ish)

The disaster film screens tonight at Columbia University’s Pupin Hall
Fifty-Seven Years Later, We Still Prefer This Film

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes at the Film Forum until August 12
Joey, Do You Like Movies About Airplanes?

Film Society of Lincoln Center screens Airplane!, hosts Q&A session with Jim Abrahams and Zucker Brothers
These Films Suck, Literally

BAM hosts “Bela Lugosi’s Dead, Vampires Live Forever
Talented Monkeys and Mad Professors

What more could a person want? Thank you, Rooftop Film Series
New York International Latino Film Festival

Over 100 Latin-themed films over six days
Saving Dough at the Theater

Every penny counts when movies cost $20
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

Queer cult classic at the IFC Center
Five Best Movies Named After Songs

Don’t worry, we didn’t include What a Girl Wants
In Maya’s Mirror

MoMA Honors the Vital Reverie of Maya Deren
Claire Danes, Where Art Thou Career?

Romeo + Juliet at tonight’s installment of SummerScreen
Wilco (The Movie)

Ashes of American Flags at the IFC Center
Countdown to Zero

A documentary of nuclear proportions
Great Movies Given Negative Reviews

“The only remarkable thing about Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather, Part II is the insistent manner in which it recalls how much better his original film was…”
Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss)

The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector
Evil No Longer

Five convincing bad-to-good transitions
An Actor to Remember

Cary Grant film series at BAM
The Internet’s First Star

You’ve seen Winnebago Man: The YouTube Video, now see Winnebago Man: The Movie
What Did That Wallaby Just Say?

Nick shows better enjoyed as an adult
The Bella Swan Syndrome

Five heroines not worth fighting over
Movies Without CGI

Non-blockbusters around the city, June 28-July 4
Thank You, Nicolas Cage

The Wicker Man at IFC Center this weekend
Retired of Acting

Actors and actresses who called it quits at a young age
Third Time Around

In honor of Toy Story 3, Encore’s list of the best third films
Brooklyn’s Newest Arts Attraction

indieScreen in Williamsburg hosts the Brooklyn International Film Festival
Breaking the Spell of the Health Care Debate

Good Meds, Bad Meds Film Series at IFC
Lo, Loro y Laura

Me, Them and Lara at the Walter Reade Theatre
Female Desire vs. the Pharmaceutical Industry

New film explores taboo subject
So You Think You’re Jewish?

Holy Rollers Review
Surrealist Cinema

Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies
Let’s Get Physical

Encore exclusive interview with Floored producer Steve Prosniewski
This is Iron Man

Encore film review of Iron Man 2
The Return of a Favorite Hero

A perennial figure at the cinema remained for the 2010’s
One of Those Mormon Movie Lovers, You Know?

An early look at the upcoming documentary, Cleanfix
Oh, Oh, Mercy, Mercy Me

An Early Look at the award-winning independent film, Mercy
Queer Art, Feminist Film

Re-interpreting revolution with Barbara Hammer
Creative Capital

Film exhibition at the MoMA
Changing the Face of Horror

The Human Centipede hits NYC
A Good, Heartfelt Tale

A story that bridges generations and continents
Damaged Hacker as Unlikely Victor in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

Swedish thriller reaches the Big Apple
Switch to Chill Pills, Roger Greenberg

Greenberg Review
The Secret in Their Eyes (El secreto de sus ojos)

Argentina’s Oscar-winning tale about love and justice
Listen up!

An Early Look at See What I’m Saying: The Deaf Entertainers Documentary
An Island of Substance in an Ocean of Style

Shutter Island movie review
Loco Corazon Beats Tired and True

Crazy Heart movie review
Film Review: It’s Complicated

Divorced From Reality… With Benefits
Creating Heroes from Criminals

A Prophet (Un Prophete) explores the evolution of a French-Arab prisoner in modern day France
What Happens in The Room Stays in The Room

Interview with director Tommy Wiseau
Zoe Beloff at MoMA

Filmmaker talks Coney Island exhibition, more at Modern Modays
An Evening with Nina Könnemann

MoMA Presents German Auteur
A Town Called Panic

Claymation chaos ensues
Terry Gilliam’s Movie Magic

The film that got made despite it all
Beyond the Absurd

The Far Out Collaborations of Ronald Tavel and Andy Warhol
Bella Cine

TFS presents Italian Neorealism retrospective
MoMA Presents The Contenders

They could have been a…
Throne of Blood Plays at the Met

Samurai cinema
Unearth the Precious Gems of Southern Asian Film

Documentaries, narratives, lectures and panel discussions at the ninth annual MIAAC film festival.
Rocking on the High Seas

Pirate Radio inspired by the true tale of DJs broadcasting rock music from a boat in the North Sea
Broken Embraces

Reuniting with Penélope Cruz, Pedro Almodóvar returns with noir tale
Me and Orson Welles Explores a Moment in History

Richard Linklater’s new film offers a glimpse of the last gleam of theater’s reign
From Chilling Documentaries to Serious Thrillers

The 47th New York Film Festival selects stunning independent films
Brightest Star

Romance versus art in the life of John Keats
Are You Ready To Roll?

Lebowski Fest is back in New York with the Dude and his cohorts
The Woman Who Banished the Corset

An all-new Coco Chanel biopic arrives this fall
Riding the Wave

The New York Surf Film Festival goes beyond easy notions of the surf film
The World Onscreen

Lincoln Center’s tribute to 30 years of First Run Features
St. Nick Explores Growing Up

Writer-director David Lowery’s new film follows two kids on their own
Fall Film Triumphs

Amid economic woes independent film comes through
How a Generation Took Off

The true story behind Woodstock
Rooftop Films Goes Green

Earth Days shows at East River park/environmental center
Searching for Love

Combining elements of reality and fantasy, Paper Heart goes on the hunt
Taking It to the Roofs

Rooftop Film Festival is bringing independent movies to the people
Anything but Lifeless

Horror/coming-of-age movie Deadgirl is both thrilling and thoughtful
When Bad is Good

Documentary explores “the worst movie ever”
Occupation Story Gets New Life

A Woman in Berlin to be shown at the Angelika
Film Festival Duo Presents Two New Films

Rooftop Films and International Film Festival Rotterdam combine forces
The Films of River to River Festival ’09

Showing at the Elevated Acre, this year’s features are classics set in New York City
Movies With a View

Get down to the river and see a classic film for free
Soul Power

From Zaire to its New York premiere
Rushes Soho Shorts Festival

Keeping cinemaphiles busy across the pond
Founding a Festival

BAMcinématek celebrates its tenth anniversary with a new tradition
A Road Trip to Somewhere

Sam Mendes’ Away We Go hits theaters this month
Cooling Off in the Grass

Bryant Park’s Summer Film Festival—a great way to spend a summer night in New York City
Criminal Intent

Jim Jarmusch’s version of life outside the law
Digital Video, a Shoestring Budget, and One Porn Star…

…Soderbergh will not rest
2009 Tribeca Film Festival Guide to Documentaries

NYC’s answer to Sundance celebrates 7th year
2009 Tribeca Film Festival Guide to Feature Films

NYC’s answer to Sundance celebrates 7th year
Sex, Drugs & 1980s LA

Bret Easton Ellis’ The Informers hits theaters
Shirley Temple’s The Little Princess

Rare screening at the Met is all-ages crowd pleaser
Planes, Trains and Immigrants

Sin Nombre director gambles on border crossings at box office
Tokyo!

Three filmmakers attack the Japanese capital
Honoring IFC

BAM pays tribute to innovative international distributor with premiere screenings
Valentino Unzipped

Doc chronicles famous designer’s retirement from haute couture
Hunger

Arty examination of Maze Prison strikes in Northern Ireland
Award Season Gets an Edgy Start

With indies making mainstream waves in 2008, the Independent Spirit Awards set the tone for 2009
Darth Weinstein

Harvey sucks the heart out of Fanboys, an homage to Star Wars geeks
Of Time and the City

Terence Davies eulogy to Liverpool is about more than the Beatles
Notorious B.I.G.

New biopic explores a life lived ready to die
The Revolution, Part One

Che: The Argentine, opens just in time for Benicio’s Oscar bow
Wendy and Lucy

Michelle Williams wows critics in recession-appropriate tale of an unfortunate road trip
In the City of Sylvia

Man meets woman meets 24 in Jose Luis Guerin’s latest visually lyrical love tale
Rian Johnson Is the New Wes Anderson

Postmodern Brothers Bloom deals in fantastical reality
Carnage and Cartoons

Waltz with Bashir is an animated take on the Israeli invasion of Lebanon from a filmmaker who was on the frontlines
Between the Walls

The Wire’s Ed Burns and French author Francois Begaudeau depict the challenges and rewards of modern urban education
A Very French Christmas

Arnaud Desplechin’s new film is a dark exploration of addiction, resentment and redemption
The Mayor of Castro Street

Biopic on the man who made Clay Aiken’s People cover possible
The Cold War and Feedback: A History of the Monks

New documentary offers lesson in underated, influential rock of the 1960s
Frontrunners

In Caroline Suh’s new documentary on student-body elections at Stuyvesant High School, perfection is the only option
Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist

New comedy combines New York City’s infamous rock ’n’ roll venues and young, blooming love
Stone Models W. after Nixon

Will one of America’s most famous directors catch the cultural zeitgeist of the upcoming election, or flop at the box office?
Small-town Pennsylvania Boy Makes Good Art

The street was his gallery, but Keith Haring’s noble ambitions couldn’t shield him from corruption
Film Society of Lincoln Center Presents 46th Annual Festival

Restored classics, panel discussions with hot directors and cutting-edge international cinema
Barney Rosset Created Safe Haven for Underground Literary Lions

New biopic documents life of the man behind the men who changed the face of American culture
Don’t Touch That URL

The Internet offers a bevy of programming options for those burnt out on the boob tube
Burn After Reading Is Coen Casting Genius
BAM Screens Howard Hawks

From screwball comedy to musical, sci-fi to western, film noir to gangster flick, this American auteur defined or added to virtually every cinematic genre
New Orleans Native Documents Katrina in Trouble the Water
Free Outdoor Films Raise Summer Spirits
Murder He Wrote: Kubrick’s Killer’s Kiss
Glam’s Velvet Goldmine Marks End of McCarren’s Film Season