(Bombay Beach opens theatrically in New York City on Friday, October 14, 2011. Visit the film’s official website to learn more. NOTE: This conversation was first posted on April 21, 2011.) Thinking of a series of dreams Where the time […]

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By connecting so deeply and intimately with his three main subjects, Potash tells an incredibly beautiful story, powerful and true.

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Love Etc. is an unmitigated, beautifully shot love letter to New York City and some of its indomitably romantic inhabitants.

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In this über-intimate portrait, a very “small story” indeed, Greene captures Kati, a teenager about to graduate high school and already engaged to her childhood sweetheart whom she plans to marry “in five years,” over the course of three emotional days.

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Through talking head interviews and slickly produced, precisely narrated animated scenes, the story of this second stolen election is revealed.

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Position concludes Helmrich’s in-depth and deeply moving portrait of the Sjamsuddin clan, a family that resides in the slums of the teeming, impossibly chaotic city of Jakarta.

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In Mads Brügger’s The Red Chapel, we get a rare glimpse of the dystopic urban nightmare that is Pyongyang, North Korea. The film has gone out into the world as a Danish film, but it is very much a North Korean one as well, a chilling and fascinating glimpse of that clandestine place.

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Budrus is a riveting, modern-day illustration in sound and vision of just how effective nonviolent resistance can be.

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(The Edge of Dreaming is now available on DVD through Lorber Films. Go here to learn more.) At the beginning of The Edge of Dreaming, filmmaker Amy Hardie, a woman who admittedly never remembers her dreams, has an uncanny one. […]

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