New York’s annual cornucopia of independent films, BAMcinemaFest, which begins on Wednesday night, follows the template of the New York Film Festival—some world premières along with movies first seen earlier in the year at other festivals (such as Sundance and Read More …
The last weekend of the New Directors/New Films series, at MOMA and Film Society of Lincoln Center, features two of the best films in the program: Shireen Seno’s “Nervous Translation” and Ricky D’Ambrose’s “Notes on an Appearance,” which have something Read More …
Matthew Porterfield’s fourth feature, “Sollers Point,” which opens today, is an exceptionally sly and sneaky film in the best sense. It moves subtly and quietly in unexpected ways and offers surprises that register only after viewing, like time-release revelations. The Read More …
Disco may never overcome the collective yearning for the “classic” rock era it supposedly ruined. Synthetic, tacky, decadent, dead—disco’s had plenty of invective hurled at it, even as it persists in the form of late-night infomercials and books of louche Read More …
“The Simpsons” has so many running jokes—the location of Springfield, Bart’s prank calls, Burns’s hound-releasing, Lenny getting severe eye damage—but there are some that have never made it to air: Skinner Wears a Toupee He does! We just never show Read More …
Who are gardening programs really for? For those already obsessed with horticultural matters, any moments of free time are spent sowing, sniffing, and tending one’s actual plants. For non-horticulture fans, why does it matter whether or not hardy double-flowered fuchsias Read More …
“Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” began as a Web series on Crackle and now lives on Netflix, where its tenth season recently cruised into view. In each installment, Jerry Seinfeld pilots a photogenic car to the doorstep of a famous Read More …
Steven Spielberg’s “Ready Player One” is not a video-game-centered dystopian teen adventure but a horror film, a movie of spiritual zombies whose souls have been consumed by the makers of generations of official cultural product and regurgitated in the form Read More …
For the better part of a decade, I lived alone, in a cabin, in the boreal forest on the outskirts of Fairbanks, Alaska. In winter, the deeper the cold and the darkness got, the better I liked it. Or so Read More …
This piece contains spoilers for the series finale of “The Americans.” My life prepared me to do one job, and this job was translating for “The Americans,” the FX show that wrapped up on Wednesday after six seasons. Most of Read More …