NY versus LA Three Point Oh?
By Nicole Brydson
A treatise on the state of the coastal culture rivalries after a few trips back and forth these last few years. I’m going to get it for this one.
June 19, 2013 Classic, Film, The People, VideoCategory: Film
Curators of Creative Control, Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective is Building an Informal Peer Economy
By Nicole Brydson
The Brooklyn Filmmaker’s Collective, or BFC, was founded by filmmakers Landon Van Soest and Jeremy Levine. It’s now a five-year-old informal but tightly knit group of about fifty local filmmakers who meet weekly to critique work that they have total creative control over.
June 18, 2013 Classic, Film, Multi/Media, Video
Itziar Barrio Captures the Complexities of Authority and Art on Film
By Nicole Brydson
“I think a lot,” laughed the artist Itziar Barrio, stationed at the desk in her fifth floor studio at CSV (Clemente Soto Velez) on Suffolk Street in Manhattan. “That’s my job!” We were discussing her past eight years working as a full time artist – six of them in New York …
May 16, 2013 Classic, Featured Artists, Film
Kathleen Hanna Wants a Revolution and Makes Her Mark
By Nicole Brydson
The SXSW film premiere of The Punk Singer, a documentary on the life of Kathleen Hanna, happened in Austin, Texas last week. The documentary on the Bikini Kill, Le Tigre and The Julie Ruin singer and longtime activist, artist and de facto leader of the 90s feminist movement riot grrrl, Kathleen, along with producer Tamra Davis and director Sini Anderson answered questions in a DIY media blitz down south. Special guest appearance by Amanda Palmer.
March 19, 2013 Boroughing, Classic, Film, Multi/Media, Music Profiles, Photo, Video
What is it like to Dumpster Dive in Brooklyn? Watch this.
By Nicole Brydson
An interesting short film came through our inbox this morning that we felt compelled to share in relation to our past series on food and environmental issues in Brooklyn. Here it is: the real life stories of New York City dumpster divers.
November 14, 2012 Boroughing, Classic, Film, New, Video
Dear Jackie Chan, Oscar Time is Near
By Shaina Feinberg
Writer and performer Shaina Feinberg shares an idea she thinks Jackie Chan and Kim Jong Il would both love.
December 20, 2011 Film
Public Art Project Looks at Impermanent Life in the City
By Nicole Brydson
We first introduced you to Iztiar Barrio in December 2009 when she placed a billboard atop a building at the corner of Fulton and Nostrand in Bed-Stuy proclaiming it the new paradise. On Friday September 30, Ms. Barrio will take on another public art project called The Blue Wall Project, this time tapping into the impermanence of the city in – where else? – Williamsburg.
September 22, 2011 Art n' About, Boroughing, Film, Multi/Media, Photo
Author Rakesh Satyal Reviews Natalie Portman’s Glorious Swan Song
By Rakesh Satyal
This summer, I declared one movie and one movie alone to be what I called “bed bug worthy,” meaning that I would overcome my phobia of those pesky insects to see Black Swan in all of its feathered glory. I was hardly disappointed.
December 7, 2010 Boroughing, Classic, Film, In Brooklyn, Multi/Media, Video
Brooklyn Artists & Filmmakers Get Hyperlocal in Dharavi
By Alex White-Mazzarella
The weather is getting cooler, but urban planner, visual artist and recent Brooklyn The Borough profile subject Alex White Mazzarella and his team of artists will soon head to warmer pastures. The clan will fully immerse themselves in Dharavi, a slum in Mumbai, India, this winter to document and manifest their experiences as they engage the city through art and film. In this international-meets-hyperlocal update, Mr. Mazzarella tells us about his plans for Mumbai and beyond.
September 13, 2010 Featured Artists, Film
Native New Yorker Safdie Brothers Infuse Films With Life in the Big City
By Nicole Brydson
New York natives Josh and Benny Safdie are the Safdie Brothers. Remember the name, these kids are going places. This weekend marks the final days of the brothers two-week summer series Emotional Sloppy Manic Cinema, which features films they directed and selected for screening at BAM. We spoke to Josh Safdie about his craft.
August 20, 2010 Classic, Film, Multi/Media, Video
Paul Dano Won’t Drink Your Milkshake
By David Bukszpan
Brooklynite Paul Dano loves to eat meat, but doesn’t want your milkshake. We caught up with the actor in advance of next week’s release of his new flick, The Extra Man, based on a novel by Jonathan Ames.
July 22, 2010 Classic, Film
Film ‘Imaginary Mothers’ Reunites Birth Mothers With Adopted Kids
By Jessica Dailey
In her upcoming documentary Imaginary Mothers, local filmmaker Jacqueline Arias examines the often unregulated adoption industry through the perspective of the natural mothers. Join her this Friday at Littlefield to view the latest footage.
June 21, 2010 Classic, FilmFilmmaker Cameron Yates Premieres ‘The Canal Street Madam’ at BAM
By Jessica Dailey
Local filmmaker Cameron Yates talks about his first feature-length documentary, The Canal Street Madam, which premieres in New York this Friday.
June 16, 2010 Classic, Film
Magnetic Fields Documentary Screens at the Bell House
By Jason Orlovich
Brooklyn Arts Council presented Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields at the Bell House on May 10 before a nationwide theatrical release later this year.
May 13, 2010 Boroughing, Brooklyn Beats, Classic, Film, Music Profiles
A Dialogue at Medgar Evers College Film & Culture Series
By Lauren Raheja
The Medgar Evers College Film & Culture Series engages in “viewing and discussing important works of film that speak to or about the experiences of members of the African Diaspora.”
February 26, 2010 Boroughing, Classic, Film, The PeopleIn Brooklyn – And Bored To Death – Everyone Is A Kid
By Nicole Brydson
The new HBO series Bored To Death, based on the life of Brooklyn author Jonathan Ames, has a lot to offer in contrasts between Manhattan and Brooklyn.
October 5, 2009 Classic, Film, The LocalsCome Out And Play at the Coney Island Film Festival
By Nicole Brydson
This weekend marks the 9th annual Coney Island Film Festival, and so we caught up with Rob Leddy, the festival director, to ask about his favorite festival moments, and for a sampling of this year’s fare. As always that includes a hometown screening of The Warriors by the beach.
September 30, 2009 Film, The Locals
Bob Woodward, Robert Redford, Carl Bernstein and Brian Lehrer Walk into a BAM
By Nicole Brydson
“Great reporting and great journalism have always been the exception to the rule,” Carl Bernstein said after a screening of All The President’s Men at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Saturday night. For more of the discussion, click through to watch a short video clip.
September 14, 2009 Authors Speak, Boroughing, Classic, Culture, Film, Multi/Media, Video
Though Brooklyn is Missed, Independence is Gained in Julie & Julia
By Lauren Raheja
Cinema loves Brooklyn. In classic films like Dog Day Afternoon, Do the Right Thing, and Saturday Night Fever, Hollywood takes us to the bumper cars at Coney Island, through the Bed-Stuy of the 1980s, and across the Brooklyn Bridge. But in Brooklynite Nora Ephron’s Julie & Julia, our borough is present only through its absence—as the beloved home that one of our protagonists wishes she weren’t leaving. Here, Brooklyn represents comfort and familiarity, rather than the brand new adventure that it does for so many of the young people who are now settling into it.
August 20, 2009 Film, Read Features
Lights, Camera, Brooklyn!
By Nicole Brydson
On the day before Thanksgiving, at the corner of Prospect Place and Washington Avenue, Harvey Keitel put back the driver’s seat of a vintage ambulance and caught a little shut-eye. Looking like his role as the similarly vice-ridden cop in the 1992 film Bad Lieutenant, Mr. Keitel awaited set-up for his next scene as Lieutenant Gene Hunt on the ABC show Life On Mars.
December 5, 2008 Boroughing, Classic, Culture, Film, Real Estate, The Locals, The Original BTB
