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BAMcinemaFest
June 20 through July 1
An undeniably essential collection of emerging indie talent (as recently vetted by Cannes, Sundance, SXSW, Rotterdam, and other...
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The pulpy scenarios change, but squinty action hero Jason Statham remains chiseled, coiled, and ready to hurl himself into scores of grimacing baddies like a goddamn human...
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Although executive produced by T.D. Jakes, the publicity-savvy televangelist who conceived and costarred in 2004's Woman Thou Art Loosed (a prequel to 7th Day in name and...
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The title is the setup, and nobody in this van ride to oblivion has ever seen a pimple in his or her life: There's the jock, the slutty one, the stoner, and the jock's...
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In the abbreviated life of French philosopher and sociopolitical activist Simone Weil (1909–1943), the daughter of agnostic Jews went to workers'-movement meetings as a...
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Countless documentaries have feebly attempted to probe and illuminate the creative process (the phrase "dancing about architecture" springs to mind), and even Dresden-born...
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Watch any 11-minute episode of Adult Swim's warped, experimental sketch series Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, and then try to explain what Tim Heidecker and Eric...
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Since their irresistibly madcap 2005 debut, Iceberg, Belgium-based filmmakers, actors, and former clowns Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, and Bruno Romy have been spinning...
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Synonymous with the humanistic, eco-minded, pastel-hued elegance of Japanese filmmaker and animation virtuoso Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away), Studio Ghibli, which Miyazaki...
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In small-town southern Herzegovina circa 1992—on the eve of the bloody war in the Balkans—middle-age former villager Divko (Miki Manojlovic) rolls into town after...
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Ideal only for the junior-high classroom, Holly Mosher's dull-as-dishwater doc fudges the line between socially progressive message-spreading and suspicious hagiography in its...
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Although there was a time when only men were allowed to perform Shakespeare, writer-director Alan Brown's queer, all-male riff on Romeo and Juliet overconfidently shoehorns...
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In our status-updated, YouTubed, and retweeted age of self-documentation, does the “faux-found-footage” genre—popularized by The Blair Witch Project;...
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Once nominated for Gawker's "Douche of the Decade," filmmaker-actor Eric Schaeffer (If Lucy Fell) casts himself yet again as an ideal—a fragile romantic who fucks a...
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In the arrested-development dramedy Young Adult, actor-comedian Patton Oswalt faces his biggest career challenge to date: holding his own against Oscar-winning starlet...
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Insincere and superficially nihilistic, Arlington Road director Mark Pellington's swaggering, midlife-crisis melodrama—about a soulless quartet of asshole college buds...
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From her rundown balcony a few flights above the streets of old Beirut, illiterate but sharp-tongued octogenarian Teta Fatima observes the bustle, haggles with vendors over...
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Panicked over being late to artificially inseminate his wife at the hospital, an unhappily married therapist (Dane Cook) pulls his mistress' mouth off his cock and forces her...
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A micro-to-macro expansion of and logical conclusion to Gary Hustwit’s elegantly compelling, design-in-the-everyday doc trilogy (which investigated the ubiquity of a...
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Four years, two continents, and a whole lot of culture shock in the making, Anne Buford's endearing and vibrantly photographed hoop-dreams doc follows a quartet of gifted West...
