Tonight was the second showing of the Knickerbocker Film Festival at the Spectrum Theater. Featured were shorts from area filmmakers as well as some from further afield. The entrants were:"A Heart, A Home" by James Strayer from Portland, Oregon"We Will...
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In Your Dreams
In Your Dreams (2013) Stevie Nicks, David A. StewartStevie Nicks and Dave Stewart team up to present this documentary of the creation of their musical collaboration, "In Your Dreams" an album released in 2011. After listening to the album when I...
In Your Dreams, One Night Only
Tonight at the Spectrum 8 in Albany, you can catch the one-time screening of the new documentary In Your Dreams. She teamed up with Eurythmics superman Dave Stewart to co-write and produce her latest record, and we get to come...
Wetlands Preserved: The Story of an Activist Nightclub
Wetlands Preserved: The Story of an Activist Nightclub recounts the inception and eventual closing of the legendary New York Wetlands Preserve club. Founder Larry Bloch wanted to open a place for environmental activist groups to convene that was supported...
The Quiet Man
The Quiet Man (1952) John Ford John Ford directed this classic Irish favorite. After purchasing the movie rights for a mere $10, he was turned down by studios until he went to Republic who would make the film only under...
Thank You Park Chan-wook for Stoker
A few weeks ago I revisited Oldboy, Park Chan-wook's complex revenge story. Knowing that his new film was not a South Korean production, but his first US / UK production, I was very excited. So being in Boston today and...
Oz the Pretty Good and Beautiful
Oz the Great and Powerful may not be a phenomenal film, but that doesn't mean it's not worth seeing. If you're a fan of the original Wizard of Oz (and really, who isn't?) then it's worth seeing. It has...
A Late Quartet
A Late Quartet (2012) Yaron Silberman (now out on DVD)If you missed it at the Spectrum (like I did) you had to impatiently wait a few months for the DVD release of Yaron Silberman's "A Late Quartet", starring Christopher Walken,...
Dark Melodrama Dead Man Down Marks Danish Director’s American Debut
Showtimes & Tickets What do Nicolas Winding Refn(left) and Niels Arden Oplev have in common? They're both Danish film directors. They've both been sought out by the Hollywood machine. Both have created international critical and commercial hits. Refn created the...