"In the midst of this very scary time in America politics, here’s an American story that gay and non-gay people, in fact anyone who believes in equal rights and a constitutional democracy, can all take pride in." - Eddie Rosenstein Releasing digitally on June 6, the civil rights documentary “The Freedom to Marry” follows attorneys Evan Wolfson…
The 70th Cannes Film Festival took place May 17th through the 28th this year on the Boulevard de la Croisette in Cannes, France. Pedro Almodóvar was the head judge along with four male and four female judges that included Jessica Chastain, Will Smith, Chinese actress Fan Bingbing, Paolo Sorrentino, Park Chan-wook, Agnès Jaoui, Maren Ade and…
“I’m calling to procure a hasty abortion.” -Ellen Page in 'Juno' When Juno came out in 2007 it was one of the first films to capture the millennial zeitgeist and to treat the subject of teen pregnancy with a frankness and humor that opened an important discussion for audiences across America. Fast forward ten years and…
Jackie, released in select films this past weekend, has caught the media's attention for its stylistic spin on a true story surrounding the enigma that has been Jackie Onassis Kennedy, written off by many as merely an interesting figure for a fashion plate or coffee book table. Not to be rash, the film did do an…
Cheng Ran, In Course of the Miraculous, 2015 (still). Wide-screen HD film, 5.1 surround sound, color; 468 min. Courtesy the artist, K11 Art Foundation, Erlenmeyer Foundation, and Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne. This month, The New Museum opens two new exhibits from Pipilotti Rist and Cheng Ran. On view October 19th, 2016 through January 15th will…
Doug Aitken | "Electric Earth" The Museum of Contemporary Arts, LA 250 S Grand Ave, Plaza Level, Los Angeles CA September 10th - January 15th The Museum of Contemporary Arts presents "Doug Aitken: Electric Earth," Aitken’s first North American survey. From his breakthrough installation diamond sea (1997) to his most recent event-based work Black Mirror (2011), the exhibition unfolds around…
Charlotte Colbert: Ordinary Madness Gazelli Art House 39 Dover Street, W1S 4NN July 1 - August 13 Charlotte Colbert will have an exhibition, Ordinary Madness opening this July at the Gazelli Art House in London, exploring the relationship between technology and the twenty-first century with the use of familiar icons of instant communication, emoji’s. Ordinary…
On March 15th, at an exclusive event, filmmaker and designer Jennifer Elster launched her pop-up shop in Tribeca. With models donning full leather masks amid projected videos of Elster with Yoko Ono and Terrance Howard, and a performance piece entitled Gender Execution, the artist created an immersive and interactive environment. The evening's guests included Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, Rosie…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhI5T_NKYxc Kate Moss dances in the dark, lighting herself under a naked bulb for Massive Attack's new video "Ritual Spirit". Directed by Medium and Massive Attack's Robert "3D" Del Naja, with vocals by British singer-songwriter Azekel, the video shows a lone Moss dancing spontaneously. Shot raw, without retouching, Del Naja said of the process, "I didn't want…
The Tribeca Film Festival is coming to New York for it's fifteenth year this April. Scheduled for the 13th through the 24th, the festival provides one-of-a-kind storytelling from filmmakers for viewers. This year, the Tribeca Film Festival boats something that the Oscar's couldn't dare say for themselves: diversity. Of the features that will debut at the…
This year, Marilyn Monroe would have celebrated her 89th birthday on June 1st. Even after 53 years of her passing, each day, she grows more and more into a fashion and Hollywood icon. Society deemed her "the dumb blonde" and still note her for her looks rather than her brains. Her "dumb blonde" act was just a…
New York City-based filmmaker, Leah Meyerhoff, has been utilizing her film career in order to promote gender equality. She founded "Film Fatales", which is a network for women directors. Founded in Brooklyn in 2013, is has since gained international recognition. Along with running Film Fatales, she serves as a mentor for the Tribeca Film Fellows,…
The 68th annual Cannes Film Festival is coming up May 13-24, and the film selections have been announced. 19 films will be competing in Un Certain Regard, starting on May 14. The judges' panel for the Un Certain Regard competition will include Isabella Rosellini (President), Haifaa Al-Mansour, Nadine Labaki, Panos H. Koutras, and Tahar Rahim.…
China: Through the Looking Glass The Metropolitan Museum of Art Chinese Galleries and Anna Wintour Costume Center May 7–August 16, 2015 The Costume Institute’s spring 2015 exhibition, China: Through the Looking Glass, will be on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from May 7 through August 16, 2015. In this collaboration between The Costume Institute…
The Tribeca Film Festival, taking place in various parts of downtown New York from April 15-26, holds its own as a festival known for its documentaries, its happenings in the surrounding Tribeca area, and its appreciation of women directors with the Nora Ephron Prize. Featuring some 100 feature films, with 67 of them premiers, this…
The 68th annual Cannes Film Festival is scheduled to be held from 13 to 24 May 2015. The face of this year's festival is Hollywood star Ingrid Bergman. She was a modern icon, an emancipated woman, an intrepid actress, and a figurehead for the new realism. She changed roles and adoptive countries as the mood…
Assuming you have seen the one-minute Jurassic World trailer that ran during the Super Bowl – and, let’s be honest, who hasn’t? – you know it opens on a clip featuring a five-ton Mosasaurus swallowing a great white shark as if it were a minnow. There is a message here, an overt signal that Universal…
Perhaps just reading the title of this article will intrigue you, as it did when I found out that Ewan McGregor was to play both Jesus and the Devil in a film shot by Emmanuel Lubezki (Children of Men, The Tree of Life), one of the best cinematographers out there right now. The film opens with…
Ann Marie “Jade” Bryan is a filmmaker, fashion enthusiast, and founder of Jade Films and Entertainment. She also happens to be deaf. As I stood outside of NYU’s Cantor Film Center to watch the screening of her latest film, The Shattered Mind, I was examining the gathering crowd with great interest; there were lots of…
99 Homes, directed by Ramin Bahrani (Chop Shop), is a riveting new look into the sleazy underbelly of real estate and the horrors of foreclosure amidst the economic recession. Before Ramin Bahrani screened 99 Homes, previously screened at the Toronto Film Festival, at this year’s Sundance Film Festival he spoke of how “the world was…
