Immigration is at the top of the headlines these days. But stepping back from the issues of policy and legality, it is helpful to remember that America has always been a country of immigrants– trying to make the best of their new lives in the US, and dealing...
If I can make it there, I can make it anywhere. That’s more than just a line from a song. Among art house distributors, it has been an article of faith for almost as long as anyone can remember. Get a film off to a strong start in Manhattan and the...
After receiving an Oscar nomination for her short film, THE PRESENT, Palestinian British filmmaker Farah Nabulsi set out to take audiences on an intense, emotional journey into the Israeli occupied West Bank. Based on real life experiences of relatives,...
In the words of Thomas Wolfe, “You can’t go home again.” … But if you do–it’s not likely to be an easy landing.” As told by writer and director Anna Campbell in her new film, NORA, balancing parenting, working, and a creative life can be an impossible...
As a teenage singer-songwriter from New Jersey in the mid-60’s, Janis Ian had one of the more remarkable debuts in modern music history. At 13 she scored a hit single– “Society’s Child,” about an interracial love relationship,...
RENDEZVOUS WITH FRENCH CINEMA is an annual festival organized by the programmers at the Film Society at Lincoln Center. And since French films are such an important part of the programming mix, we decided to spend some time in the Big Apple talking to...
