Best of 2015 – Sensitive Skin More Better Favorites
The Editors
This was so much fun last year, I thought we'd do it again. (Two of my favorite books of the year were ones I picked up from last year's list: Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel, recommended by Deborah Pintonelli, and ...
Best of Enemies – A Review
Franklin Mount
You're watching live television coverage of the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Outside of the convention hall, the Chicago police are clubbing demonstrators asking for peace. Inside the convention, on the ABC News set,...
The Third Man – A Review
Franklin Mount
I hurried over to Film Forum the other day (first day of the run) to see the 4K restoration of The Third Man, the great 1949 film directed by Carol Reed.
Why rush to see a 65-year-old movie, especially one I’ve seen at ...
Goodfellas – 25th Anniversary Restoration – A Review
Franklin Mount
Spoiler alert: This movie is fairly violent, it’s well over two hours long, and everyone has already seen it.
New York, June, 1970. We see three men in a car, driving somewhere late at night, and the car is making a kn...
Nightmare Code, directed by Mark Netter – A Review by Franklin Mount
Franklin Mount
Nightmare Code, directed by Mark Netter, starring Andrew J. West, Mei Melançon, and Googy Gress, written by M.J. Rotondi and Mark Netter.
We start with a troubled young man (Andrew J. West, best known for his portrayal as ...
Crossing Over: A Performance Adventure in Green-Wood Cemetery – Review
Franklin Mount
Crossing Over: A Performance Adventure in Green-Wood Cemetery
Part of the BEAT Festival
Tour by Atlas Obscura, led and narrated by Allison Meier, with site-specific performances by LEIMAY: Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya, ...
Double Indemnity—A Review
Franklin Mount
As the film starts, we hear ominous music and see a man’s silhouette, a tall, broad-shouldered man, walking toward us on crutches. A car careens through the dark streets of sunny Los Angeles.
Walter Neff (Fred MacMurra...
“Burning Bush”, directed by Agnieszka Holland – Review
Franklin Mount
I saw this movie (originally a three part Czech television miniseries directed by the Polish director, Agnieszka Holland, now being shown in two parts at Film Forum) on Sunday. I bought my ticket in advance, not that there w...
Kraftwerk 3D, in concert at the United Palace Theatre
Franklin Mount
Kraftwerk. A band whose name, in English, means "power plant," but, since it's German, the name is somehow more elemental in the band's native language. Basically: power+work.
I'm still, this afternoon at least, luxuriat...
