Rooftop Films Artistic Director Mark Elijah Rosenberg (referring to himself here in the 3rd person so as to avoid any hyperbole, positive or negative) recently wrote and directed a music video for the sinister love song “Can’t Let Me Go” by the gravel-voiced Brian Grosz, the first track of his album “Bedlam Nights.” I’ll try […]

Ok, I don’t want to name drop too much here, but yeah, Dan and I are dear old college buddies with a guy who is an acclaimed Sundance screenwriter, former bandmate of members of The Bravery, current member of the amazing ukulele rock band The Hazzards, the inventor of the double feature finder, the world […]

Rooftop Films is truly blessed to work in the The Old American Can Factory (an amazing six-building complex of artists and artisinal manufacturers), surrounded as we are by so many brilliant people. Our friend and neighbor Martin Bisi runs a legendary recording studio in one building, a studio he co-founded with Brian Eno and Bill […]

For those who haven’t recently made it up to the roof of Open Road Rooftop (AKA New Design High, AKA the former Seward Park High), there is a really nice video montage on Rocketboom. You can watch the YouTube embed here, but there is a somewhat high-res version on Rocketboom. If you watch closely you might even […]

  The wildly prolific Rooftop alum Jim Munroe has a miniseries online that I just discovered recently, and it is definitely worth checking out. It’s been around for a few months, but Jim is from Canada, so word spreads South slowly. INFEST WISELY is a lo-fi sci-fi no-budget feature in seven episodes, each with a […]

Josh Safdie and Red Bucket Films, the makers of a bunch of charming films about quirky urban fairy tales and curious encounters (including The Back of Her Head, Rooftop 8/11/07), have a new vignette about two adorable kids unsatisfied with their frighteningly metallic Christmas tree. They go off in search of a real, old-fashioned tree, […]

One of the most popular films we ever showed at Rooftop was the simple and darkly sweet animation Middle Dog Gets Angry, directed by George Gendi. George now would like to send you his own bit of melancholy holiday greetings, to be celebrated with a good meal. Eat up! (Click here to launch the 45 […]

For the past three years, Rooftop Films has collaborated with the fine folks at the Rural Route Film Festival to bring a bit of pastoral cinema to the big city. Rural Route is going on tour now, and we highly recommend you check them out. Here are some early dates and descriptions: Dec. 22, 5:15PM […]

Watch the trailer! Then buy the DVD! At Rooftop, our events are more than just screenings: they’re interactions between the film, the filmmakers, the audience, the venue, and the local community. In 2006, when we screened Chris Metzler and Jeff Springer’s documentary “Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea,” a film about the man-made ecological […]

Also on Sale on DVD With so many film-watching options available these days (films playing for one week only, movies On Demand, on DVD, on the web), it’s hard to get excited about going to the cinema. For 11 years now, Rooftop Films has been finding ways to make movie-going an exciting communal event again. […]