On Thursday, “Yalies in Entertainment” launched with a special guest: two-time Academy Award–winning filmmaker Bill Guttentag. “YiE,” small community of young alums in media and the arts, took form with this kickoff event in SoHo, where a mixer preceded a selection of clips and conversation with Guttentag. Alongside his documentary and narrative endeavors, Guttentag has [...]

To be an emerging artist in New York is to operate within an industry that values appearances, within a city that values professionalism. Many are discovering Google Voice and setting up personal websites in hopes of providing their art with the veneer of legitimacy they deserve—and I am no different. Lately, friends have been asking [...]

Congratulations to David Tracey, whose photography exhibit will open on August 13 at the Rio II Gallery in Harlem. See below for details and a short description by the artist himself. August 13, 2010 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM Rio II Gallery 583 Riverside Drive, 7th Floor New York, NY 10031 (Corner of 135th Street) [...]

Does the current 3D “boom” stand a chance? History, business, and aesthetics shape the debate surrounding this unresolved trend in postmillennial cinema. It would be naïve to think that the filmic image tends toward total identification with the universe that it copies, through the successive addition of supplementary properties from that universe. Perception, on the part [...]

Now that the main slate has been announced, I can finally point out some press screenings I’ll mark on my calendar as I cover this year’s festival: Les Herbes Folles (Wild Grass) New Wave filmmaker Alain Resnais (Night and Fog, Last Year in Marienbad) is one of those old French guys you study in film [...]

Great news! I just found out today that I’ll be covering the New York Film Festival for work this year. As it turns out, our programming director and senior programmer will be scouting at Toronto in mid-September, just before NYFF. Timing works out perfectly. The festival ends October 14. Rather than enter the fest totally [...]

Another project for which I was contracted: an accompaniment to a series of articles about the Machal entitled “Writing in my Father’s Footsteps.” It appeared in The Forward, a weekly Jewish newspaper founded in 1897 as a Yiddish-language daily, which entered the din of New York’s immigrant press as a defender of trade unionism and [...]

As of late, Correction Fluid Film has been contracted for several web projects, including two seasons of MNN.com’s “On the Streets with Jonathan Kesselman.” MNN.com, which currently owns the rights to The Adventures of Captain Planet, is an environmentalist site with blogs, videos, and a host of news feeds. Kesselman—best known for his directorial debut, [...]