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Bong Joon Ho Is Watching Us

Earlier this year, in a pre-COVID land far, far, away, Bong Joon Ho, already hailed as an auteur in South Korea, catapulted to Hollywood fame when his acclaimed film Parasite won Oscars for Best Director, Writer and International Feature and made history by being the first non-English language film to

“Wild Projectz” Closes Fall 2019 Bowery Film Festival

Tucked away at the corner of East 3rd St. and Avenue B in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, Wild Projects offers a haven to aspiring and veteran artists alike. From art exhibitions, live theatre productions, and film screenings, the space hosts a myriad of events throughout the year geared towards

Fall 2019 Bowery Film Festival: Relocating the Radicalness of Everyday Life

It was a chilly night on Wednesday November, 20 in the Lower East Side, where the Teatro LATEA hosted the second night of the Fall 2019 Bowery Film Festival. This year, the festival’s 42 films interspersed visual storytelling of all lengths, from longer features to short films to music

My Girl Friday at NewFest: New York’s LGBTQ Film Festival

As an organization and a film festival, NewFest has come to define Chelsea’s cinematic scene every October for the past 31 years. Although NewFest supports queer cinema year-round through screenings, programs, parternerships, and events, the centerpiece of these efforts is undoubtedly its late October showcase, which occurred this year

Eyes On Elsewheres: An Intertwining Series

All across the boroughs of Manhattan, Imagine Science Films presented an astounding selection of sci-fi films during its 12th annual festival, beginning on October 18th and ending on the 25th. This non-profit powerhouse was founded in 2008 at Rockefeller University by geneticist and filmmaker Alexis Gambis. The main goal of

Juggling Multiple Hats On and Off the Screen: A Review of Motherless Brooklyn

By: Vickram Singh Disillusionment from economic growth, ruthless, and possibly corrupt, men in power disregarding everything but their egos and a country that is tenuously holding on to an impression of race relations. Edward Norton’s “Motherless Brooklyn” may be a noir crime drama taking place in 1950s New

Friedkin, Uncut: Behind the Scenes on a Hollywood Legend

Directed by: Francesco Zippel OPENING AT CITY CINEMAS VILLAGE EAST, New York, New York FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 2019 In Hollywood, the word “real” is an anomaly. It is a place where the goal is to try to fool others into believing things even when there is proof that the impossible

Honeysuckle Does Cannes: Gaspar Noé, Alain Delon, and Monica Bellucci

By Ronit Pinto and Sam C. Long It has been a very rock ‘n’ roll Cannes so far – a little horror, a little emotion, and a whole lot of beauty and electric mayhem as only this festival can deliver it. Team Honeysuckle started our next round of events promptly at

Honeysuckle Does Cannes: Gaspar Noé, Alain Delon, and Monica Bellucci

It has been a very rock ‘n’ roll Cannes so far – a little horror, a little emotion, and a whole lot of beauty and electric mayhem as only this festival can deliver it. Team Honeysuckle started our next round of events promptly at midnight with the world premiere of Gaspar

Here for the Horror Legends: John Carpenter, Brazilian Thriller Bacurau, and Udo Kier at Cannes

Honeysuckle’s adventures at the 72nd edition of the Cannes Film Festival continued this week with Bacurau, a fascinating genre film by Brazilian filmmakers Kleber Mendonca Filho and Juliano Dornelles, starring Barbara Colen, Sonia Braga, and Udo Kier. A small town descends into madness and chaos upon the death

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Shruti Ganguly's Women in Film/Entertainment

Last night’s ongoing series of Shruti Ganguly’s Women in Film/Entertainment: From Script to Screen was informative and inspiring. Ganguly (a writer, producer and director) curated an amazing all-female panel of brilliant and accomplished filmmakers consisting of writers, directors, executives, actors and more; who discussed everything