‘Beat Hotel’ offers precious snapshot of deceased icons
All the exciting members of the Beat Generation have died, and one can feel it while watching the rudimentary documentary the Beat Hotel. Filmmaker Alan...
‘The Connection’ (1962) explores the agony and ecstasy of men waiting...
Even in today’s “progressive” society, women directors are still considered an anomaly in the world of filmmaking. This brief interview, shot not too long...
‘The Amazing Spider-Man:’ an Independent Ethos take on the Hollywood tent-pole
Hollywood has plucked up creative, foreign and low-budget indie directors and thrown them into big budget films to varying degrees of success. Phillip Noyce,...
‘In the Family:’ most powerful indie drama so far this year
While watching In the Family, one cannot help but notice it as a film designed to highlight the screenwriting and acting. The camera lingers...
On the Bizarre-O New Wave of Greek cinema
This weekend, the Miami Beach Cinematheque, one of the more bold art houses in South Florida, will indulge in a weekend of films from...
‘Moonrise Kingdom’: a different kind of Wes Anderson film
Moonrise Kingdom is not your typical Wes Anderson film. As a long-time fan, I have always thought his films existed in some hyper-real dimension of...
Brian Eno gets tribute treatment in South Florida
This weekend will see a unique celebration unfold in South Florida to none other than Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la...
Interview with Spanish sci-fi revisionist Nacho Vigalondo in ‘New Times’
Thanks to the Cultist blog at "the Miami New Times" I had a chance to speak with one of Spain's most exciting young directors,...
‘Elena’ explores moral corruption in Russia through intimate drama
“We’re all bad seeds,” says a character in Elena, a Russian film so focused on moral corruption it feels like a perfectly symmetrical sculpture...
Film Review: ‘Keyhole’ offers journey toward redemption for the dead
Guy Maddin, cinema’s contemporary master surrealist, has returned with another feature that unfolds like a dream while exploring Freudian symptoms of psychic malaise. Though...