SENTENCED HOME PREMIERES ON INDEPENDENT LENS
One of the most powerful documentaries from the 2006 Summer Series is premiering next week on PBS. SENTENCED HOME airs this coming Tuesday, May 15 at 10PM on PBS as part of the Emmy-award winning series “Independent Lens”. *Check your local listings for exact date and time in your area here Putting a human face on […]
DID YOU REALLY THINK THE RIGHT THING TO DO WAS SET IN BED-STUY?
TERRA UPDATE: MENI TSIRBAS AND DANE SMITH INTERVIEW
Check out this interview to see how Meni and Producer Dane Smith (formerly the Rooftop publicity go-to guy) plan on adapting the short film Terra (Rooftop 2004) into the first ever CGI feature film with an overtly political message. How are they going to pull this off? Well, Brian Cox, Dennis Quaid, Amanda Peet, Chris […]
KILLER OF SHEEP AT IFC
Former Rooftop curators Imagenation reminded me this morning to support the opening of Charles’ Burnett’s classic 1977 American Neo-Realist film, Killer of Sheep, at the IFC Center this weekend. If you don’t know much about the film, you can read on ReverseShot.com about how much better than Bubble it is. Or you can just […]
NEW ALBUM FROM VIC THRILL
Vic Thrill and the Saturn Missile have a new album out, and of course it is packed with multi-layered, retro-futuristic, electro-infused power-pop. If you have seen them play at a Rooftop show before, I am sure you remember them–their shows are unforgettable and Vic and the MIssile are are great to be around even […]
NYUFF IN NYC THIS WEEKEND
The one and only original New York Underground Film Festival starts up this weekend and there are going to be dozens–literally dozens–of beloved Rooftop alumni at the Anthology Film Archives with their new films and selected classics. Some of the films/filmmakers you should check out are: *Jim Finn’s latest socialist masterpiece * Sundance roommate […]
TRAILER FOR BEN ZEITLIN’S GLORY AT SEA
The trailer for Court 13’s Rooftop Films’ Filmmaker’s Funded short Glory at Sea is online and it looks freakin’ amazing. Shot entirely on location in Katrina-torn New Orleans, Glory at Sea tells the story of 11 survivors who build a boat and sail to sea to retrieve their loved ones from the bottom of […]
NEW DIRECTORS/ NEW FILMS REVIEW: JOHN CARNEY’S ONCE…
There have been a lot of attempts over the last ten years (or 40 years, or whatever) to update the classic Hollywood musical film. Most of these movies are pretty painful to watch. Dancer in the Dark, Moulin Rouge, Everyone Says I Love You, O Brother Where Art Thou?, etc., all suffer from one or […]
JUDGE AND HERTZFELDT’S THE ANIMATION SHOW
I should have mentioned this in January when they were in New York, but since I didn’t (and the IndieWire article reminded me), I guess I will plug it now. Every year Mike Judge (of Beavis and Butthead, Office Space and Idiocracy fame) and Don Hetzfeldt (whose film Everything Will Be OK was awarded best […]