THE HARLEM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES AMAZING 2024 LINEUP

THE 2024 HARLEM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALannounces line-up for 19th edition(May 16-26) Opening Night features the World Premiere of Nana Ghana’s You Are Always Right Hereand an Uptown Shorts Spotlight Saturday’s Spotlight Presentation will feature the NY Premiere of Nancy Saslow’s documentary Xernona Clayton: A Life in Black and White   YOU ARE ALWAYS RIGHT HERE, XERNONA CLAYTON: A LIFE IN Read More →

Harlem International Film Festival 2021 review: ‘My Fiona’

MY FIONA  New York State Premiere Director: Kelly Walker Country: US, Running Time: 86 min Following the suicide of her best friend, Jane finds purpose in helping her friend’s wife with their child. In doing so, she becomes inadvertently drawn into an intimate relationship bound by grief that’s potentially catastrophic to the healing for all those involved. Jeanette Maus‘s final Read More →

Harlem International Film Festival 2020 review: ‘The Subject’ is powerful from every angle.

Jason Biggs plays Phil, a documentary filmmaker whose conscious ways heavy on him. The Subject is aptly named. Phil made a film about a black 15-year-old whose murder is caught on tape, by him. It’s been two years, he’s worried that Malcolm’s death means nothing back in Harlem. He’s onto his next project but cannot shake the guilt of possible Read More →

Harlem International Film Festival review: Narrative short ‘Steve’ is an entire journey.

If grinding in the bustling streets of NYC isn’t enough for a Broadway actress, an uninvited guest in her apartment might be just the thing to put her over the edge. As someone who went to school for musical theatre in the city, short film Steve spoke to me in a very specific way. Star and writer, Amber Iman, is Read More →

Harlem International Film Festival review: ‘Look At Lucas’ is parental wake up call.

As a parent, sometimes a film is like a slap in the face. Agustin McCarthy‘, LOOK AT LUCAS is one such short. The plot is simple, a mother and son take a weekend away at the beach. Mom struggles to leave work at work and her son simply wants to spend time together. Parenting today looks very different than it Read More →

Harlem International Film Festival 2020 review: short film ‘Generation Lockdown’ will break you.

GENERATION LOCKDOWN is a narrative short film, seen through the eyes of an eleven year old boy as he tries to save his friend’s life during an active shooter attack in his school. This film is based on a short story by Caleb, a 6th grader from a public school in Teaneck, NJ. If you aren’t crying by 6 minutes Read More →

Film at Lincoln Center announces Currents for the 60th New York Film Festival (September 30–October 16, 2022). #NYFF60

  FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER ANNOUNCES CURRENTS FOR THE 60th NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL Opening Night — João Pedro Rodrigues‘s Will-o’-the-Wisp  New York, NY (August 18, 2022) – Film at Lincoln Center announces Currents for the 60th New York Film Festival (September 30–October 16, 2022). “Each Currents lineup is an attempt to distill the spirit of innovation and playfulness in contemporary cinema, Read More →

FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER ANNOUNCES SPOTLIGHT FOR THE 60th NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL

FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER ANNOUNCES SPOTLIGHT FOR THE 60th NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL World premieres are Maria Schrader’s She Said Chinonye Chukwu’s Till Elvis Mitchell’s Is That Black Enough for You?!? James Ivory and Giles Gardner’s A Cooler Climate Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi’s Personality Crisis: One Night Only New works by Marco Bellocchio, Annie Ernaux and David Ernaux-Briot, Luca Guadagnino, Sarah Polley, Chris Smith, Read More →

Netflix News: Everything new to watch today & released in the last week – June 22nd

Films Brain on Fire (Film) [NETFLIX ORIGINAL] – Available Friday, June 22 One morning, 24-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up in a hospital bed. She couldn’t speak. She couldn’t move. And she had no idea how she got there. Derren Brown: Miracle (Film) [NETFLIX ORIGINAL] – Available Friday, June 22 Derren toured the UK and returned to London’s historic Palace Theatre Read More →