"I wanted to hold the moment fast and thought, 'Come what may, this is happiness. I cannot wish for anything better. Now, for a few minutes, I can experience perfection. And I feel profoundly grateful to my life, which gives me so much.' " -- From Agnes' journal in Cries...

Amid Tribeca 2006's narrative features, Fay Ann Lee's East Broadway stands out as both a legitimately funny (if heavily contrived) romantic comedy and a dynamic glimpse of ethnic and class stratification in New York City. And although she may be the first filmmaker to run a sweatshop indictment through...

Outdoor movie screenings are nothing out of the ordinary in New York; Bryant Park and Central Park offer a few well-attended film series every summer, while Brooklyn's Rooftop Films is another beloved seasonal standby. But nobody does open-air cinema quite like Australia's Tropfest, the short-film festival that has emerged...

As much as I appreciate festival press screenings, I hate going to them. The theaters reek of work and fatigue, and worst of all, a press screening's snobby austerity is no match for the anything-can-happen fever of a public premiere.

Take last night's opening of A Stadium Story: The...

One of the more eagerly anticipated titles of this year's festival is Colour Me Kubrick, an entertaining quasi-biography of the British con man Alan Conway. Portrayed by John Malkovich as a man...