When waters are turbid and murky, it’s quite difficult to determine their depth. That’s the very problem the 87-minute feature documentary On the Mat, currently playing at the Tribeca Film Festival through April...

Every spring, since 2003, the Tribeca Film Festival has brought fresh, international narrative films and documentaries to its audience of mainly hip, college-educated viewers. Established by actors Robert De Niro and...

CNN International has produced a series of premium cultural blend featuring some of the world’s most noted and gifted creative leaders. Fusion Journeys, a Connect the World segment series that can be seen through...

When watching the 94-minute Petter Ringbom documentary The Russian Winter, the viewer is left with a singular question: why has it taken so long to make a movie about John Forté? The musician’s life story...

Lithe dancers from one of America’s premier ballet companies twirl and leap, their technique top-notch, their extended limbs seemingly reaching the heavens. But instead of the expected Stravinsky or Tchaikovsky...

With the Tribeca Film Festival in full swing, dozens of new and veteran filmmakers are hoping to make an impact on audiences and potential buyers/distributors. Using laughably small budgets, these artists cannot rely...

Telluride, Cannes, Berlin, Toronto, New York: there’s nothing like leaving a movie theater in one of these cities and walking out into the streets, which is just to say that part of what makes a great film...

When you’re creating a whole new world on camera, there’s no point in not loosening the purse strings as much as you can. In that same spirit of expenditure, it only makes good...

Adolescence isn’t easy for anyone, but for some it can be much worse. If you thought your parents were tough on you growing up by forcing you to take up the piano or study calculus for...

William Burroughs is writing his incendiary Naked Lunch, Gregory Corso is creating his “Bomb,” a bombastic poetic send-off to the nuclear age, and Allen Ginsberg is cooking up his...