Click on the movie stills for more on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which include The Town, Catfish, Easy A, Alpha and Omega, Never Let Me Go, Jack Goes Boating, Picture Me, Freebie, Kings of Pastry, The Girl, The Temptation of St. Tony, On the Bowery, and Gone With the Pope.
Weekend Movie Forecast: The Town Vs. Easy A
Gen Art Film (And Party) Festival Turns 15 Tomorrow
The 15th Anniversary of the Gen Art Film Festival kicks off tomorrow night at the Ziegfeld Theatre with Josh Radnor’s ("How I Met Your Mother") writing/directing debut happythankyoumoreplease, which was shot here in New York and won the Sundance Audience Award. Spoiler? The movie "focuses on several 20-something relationships in the city." Other screenings during the week-long indie festival include Elektra Luxx, about a former adult film actress as she shifts her moves from the bedroom to the classroom; Tanner Hall, "a coming-of-age tale steeped in secrecy, desire and adolescent complexity" and set in a New England all-girls boarding school, and Mercy, which features James Caan and Dylan McDermott in a story about "a successful young romance novelist who doesn't believe in love—or so he thinks. When he meets a beautiful and mysterious book critic named Mercy, his theories are put to the test." Drama button!
Weekend Movie Forecast: The Road or Me and Orson Welles
Click on the film stills for more reviews and details on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which include The Road, Me and Orson Welles, Old Dogs, Ninja Assassin, The Princess and the Frog , The Big Lebowski, and Brazil.
Weekend Movie Forecast: 2012 Vs. Fantastic Mr. Fox
Click on the film stills for details and reviews on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which include 2012, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Messenger, Oh my God?, Pirate Radio, Ten9Eight, Uncertainty, William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe, Women in Trouble, The Red Shoes, Goonies, and All Tomorrow's Parties.
Weekend Movie Forecast: Julie & Julia & G.I. Joe
Click on the film stills above for more on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which also include G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Cold Souls, A Perfect Getaway, Paper Heart, Beeswax, Canary, I Sell the Dead, Bliss, Rolling Thunder, The Talk of the Town, Red Dawn, Barton Fink, and The Third Man.
Weekend Movie Forecast: Brüno or Humpday
Click on the film stills above for more details and reviews on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which also include Humpday; Blood: The Last Vampire; I Love You, Beth Cooper; Soul Power; Lake Tahoe; Yoo-hoo, Mrs. Goldberg; Vanished Empire; Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; Casablanca; Mississippi Mermaid; and Alien.
Weekend Movie Forecast: Public Enemies Vs. Ice Age
Click on the film stills above for more on this weekend's new releases and repertory screenings, which also include Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, I Hate Valentine's Day, Local Color, Nollywood Babylon, The Beaches of Agnes, The Girl from Monaco, Tony Manero, A Clockwork Orange, Newsies, The Royal Tenenbaums, Mississippi Mermaid, BAMcinématek's Afro-Punk Festival, and Willie Nelson's 4th of July Celebration.
BAM Gears Up for Sundance Institute 2008 Screenings
Next week some of the best films from this year's Sundance Festival will unspool at BAM during their third annual Sundance Institute takeover. The ten day mini-fest features 10 dramatic features, 12 documentaries and 36 shorts. Most of these selections screen just once or twice, and not all of them have distribution, so you've got to stay on your toes if there's something you want to see.
Tribeca Film Festival 2008 Mini-Preview
The 2008 Tribeca Film Festival begins April 23rd and runs through May 4th, with over 200 feature length narrative films, documentaries and shorts from around the world. This year also features discussions with filmmakers, music events, a family film series, an ESPN Sports Film Festival and other special presentations. (Peruse the entire selection of films.)

