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 FilmTagged: Film
Brooklyn Loses Two Bright Stars in Libya
By Nicole Brydson
BrooklynTheBorough.com extends its sincerest condolences to the families of filmmaker and photojournalist Tim Hetherington and fellow Brooklynite and Getty Images photographer Chris Hondros, both killed by mortar fire while reporting on the conflict in Libya.
April 20, 2011 Boroughing, In Brooklyn, The People
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
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
Filmmaker Sini Anderson Announces Kathleen Hanna Documentary
By Nicole Brydson
Performance artist, producer and director Sini Anderson appeared last month at the Franklin Park Reading Series and recently announced she is directing a documentary about her long time friend Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre fame.
July 9, 2010 Classic, Music Profiles
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
Two Films Literally On the Waterfront–That Aren’t ‘On the Waterfront’
By Nathan Ward
Freebird Books will be screening films about the waterfront outdoors on successive Thursdays. Tonight it’s Slaughter on Tenth Avenue. Next week it’s Edge of the City.
June 10, 2010 Classic, Guest Authors
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 PeopleCome 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
