Michael says: “Most filmmakers should be so lucky to come across Jimmy Mirikitani, an elderly Japanese-American man who was living on the streets of lower Manhattan in 2001. A self-proclaimed ‘Grand Master’ of an artist (with the work to back
Bruce says: “Billo (Thierno Thiam), a young man from Senegal, has wanted to be a fashion designer since he was a small child put to work in his uncle’s garment business. He and his mother have always been the black
Bruce says: “Few artists have the integrity of Alice Neel. Neel viewed painting as a privilege and an obsession. ‘I had to paint,’ she would say. While her contemporaries reveled in the downtown abstract expressionist art scene, Alice remained outside
Beth C says: “This must be the first time I’ve ever favorably rated a film that got a 48 on METACRITIC. Usually they love a film that I hated but this time it’s the other way around. I found it
Beth says: “This was a Rumanian film about a small town TV station owner/call-in show host who decides to mark the 16th anniversary of the Communist overthrow by having a special show, in which he asks two men to debate
Michael says: “In the tradition of feel-good films like BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM or BILLY ELLIOT combined, WONDROUS OBLIVION shows us our collective prejudices but allows us to overcome them in a slightly formulaic, but ultimately more successful film than
Bruce says: “Henry Geldzahler was an anomaly – a gay man often traveling in circles of predominately straight artists who liked to hang out at the famed Cedar Tavern in Greenwich Village; a curator of contemporary art for a museum
Bruce says: “Wetlands used to be about twenty blocks from where I live and I had never heard of it. The reason for that is pretty clear. Some big names played at Wetlands before becoming famous – Dave Matthews, Phish,
Chris says: “I’ve been wracking my brain trying to think of exceptional lead actresses to nominate this year. Just in time, Felicity Huffman slaughters any potential competition in a brave, absorbing turn as Bree, a 40-ish pre-operative man-to-woman transsexual. “One
Beth says: “The latest from Korea’s Kim Ki-duk. A woman undergoes secret cosmetic surgery then reappears as a new woman who romances her boyfriend – is it the ultimate sacrifice, to make yourself anew for love, or the ultimate test,