No Place on Earth unearths incredible story of Holocaust survivors’ ordeal in Ukrainian caves
The year is nearly half-over already, and this movie reviewer was getting nervous, thinking ahead to the time when I’ll have to compile my Ten Best list for 2013. Then I went to…
Frances Ha is an Annie Hall for Millennials – without the boyfriend
Neither of these should be the primary factor in making your decision of whether or not to take in Frances Ha, the quirky new indie dramedy directed by Noah Baumbach (The Squid and…
Some quibbles with Tribbles
Fandoms are a dime a dozen these days; but if you don’t count the late-19th-century mass obsession with Sherlock Holmes, it was Star Trek that originally put fandom on the pop-culture map. Even…
Inaugural Taste of Woodstock on May 22
The Woodstock Film Festival won’t be back in town until October, but in the meantime it’s gearing up for the 14th annual event this fall with a fundraising “Taste of Woodstock” on Wednesday,…
Robert Downey, Jr. and intelligent screenplay endow Iron Man 3 with heart
Regular readers of this column must be growing weary of my rants against Hollywood’s increasing reliance on movies based on comic books to deliver the blockbuster bucks. I thought that The Avengers was…
Obnoxious young reporter pursues harmless old hippies in The Company You Keep
According to Hollywood lore, Robert Redford nursed a dream for decades to make a movie about renegade ‘60s-era activists on the run from the law, their counterculture idealism having devolved into an acceptance…
42 is old-fashioned, inspiring Hollywood moviemaking
If, like this correspondent, you’re not a baseball fan, the number 42 is first and foremost the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything, according to The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide…
Serendipity in Schenectady
Though best-known for his Oscar-nominated role as a Mafia don in Prizzi’s Honor, the late comic actor William Hickey made something of a specialty of playing characters created by Kurt Vonnegut. He originated…
Lore offers a difficult, complex view of the fall of the Third Reich
Recent remarks by the head of the National Rifle Association in response to the Sandy Hook massacre, claiming that the only answer to “bad guys with guns” is an increased presence of “good…
Levon Helm documentary screenings to help Upstate Films go digital
To roll into the new technological age and meet changes in how movies are distributed, both the Woodstock and Rhinebeck Upstate Films locations will have to convert their projectors from film to digital…
