It includes childhood memories, video diaries, musings on data collection, the new surveillance culture, the Buddhist concept of afterlife, along with tributes to the artists, writers, musicians and thinkers who have inspired her, some in her own backyard in New York’s West Village. Abramorama and HBO Documentary Films have acquired the movie just days before […]

As written and directed by Paul Weitz, Grandma is a minor film defined by a major performance from Lily Tomlin, rendering one of her best roles. Though artistically the tale is clunky (as most of Weitz’s films are), it serves as star vehicle in both the old-fashioned and modern (or post-modern) senses of this terms

A new documentary from Paul Thomas Anderson and a new documentary about Brian De Palma are part of the line-up of special presentations that will screen at the New York Film Festival, which runs from September 25 to October 11.

One of the most provocative films to have come out of Israel in recent memory, written and directed by Avishai Sivan, Tikkun tells the mesmerizing story of a Jewish Orthodox scholar in a state of crisis.

The good thing about this big-screen version, helmed with sool, style and panache by Brit Guy Ritchie, is that it is designed for younger viewers who may have never seen the popular TV series.