The Criterion Mobile Closet Sets Brooklyn as Next Stop
In celebration of their 40th anniversary, Criterion will continue traveling the Criterion Closet Picks show to Brooklyn Bridge Park on Saturday, October 26 and Sunday, October 27 from 10am-6pm daily, in partnership with St. Ann’s Warehouse, where Criterion will also screen the best of its 15 years of Closet Picks.
Double Feature of Inventive New Underground Films Will Premiere at PhilaMOCA
Spirit Riser is set to make its Philadelphia premiere at beloved local venue PhilaMOCA on Sunday July 28, as part of a double feature with Tate Hoffmaster's Psychic Vampire. Hoffmaster and Greenberg work closely together and Greenberg co-produced, shot and acted in the debut feature film from the Pennsylvania native and film prodigy.
Review: CLEANSED at CATASTROPHIC THEATRE
Should you avoid seeing the show? For God’s sake, no. You will miss what is surely going to be one of the most talked about pieces of work in Houston’s theatrical history. Go see it, and make your own call whether you love or hate it. But don’t let them brainwash you into thinking this is only about love because it is also about repulsion, and that is okay. It is very much as if David Cronenberg and David Lynch made a movie, and Jim Henson designed the sex scenes.
SHIVERS Becomes Available on Steelbook in March
Send shivers down your spine with a cult classic when Shivers becomes available on Steelbook on March 5 from the Vestron line distributed by Lionsgate. Follow the residents living in a parasite infested suburban apartment building and turned into mindless, sex-crazed lunatics.
Metric Releases New Album 'Formentera II'
OUT NOW! Check out Metric's new album 'Formentera II' featuring their latest single. Get the latest updates on the band's music and tour dates. The tour (already sold out) will continue this coming week with stops in Toronto, London, Paris and Berlin before they head on a Central and South American tour for the rest of October.
Brooke Adams Joins MADWOMEN OF THE WEST Off-Broadway
A cast change has been announced for the New York premiere of Madwomen of the West, a new comedy by Sandra Tsing Loh. Brooke Adams will join Caroline Aaron, Marilu Henner, and Melanie Mayron, under the direction of Thomas Caruso.
Karen Cooper, Longtime Director of Film Forum to Step Down After 50 Years
Among those artists whose early films Cooper championed are: Chantal Akerman, Matthew Barney, Charles Burnett, David Cronenberg, Julie Dash, Terence Davies, Asghar Farhadi, Haile Gerima, Michael Haneke, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Mike Leigh, Lucrecia Martel, Mira Nair, László Nemes, Gaspar Noé, Christopher Nolan, François Ozon, and more.