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So tonight is the beginning of the 43rd New York Film Festival, an annual event that I usually spend hundreds of dollars on, probably needlessly. Thankfully, this year, I don’t really have to because, say it with me, Yay for press screenings. So far I’ve seen eight of the 11 films screened, and I haveContinue reading “SO FAR, SO GOOD: THE NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL IS HERE”

Today’s Gothamist Interview is with Warren Leight who just might be my new writer hero. If you don’t know Leight by name, chances are you’ve seen or at least heard of his work. He won a Tony Award for the play Side Man. He has a new play officially opening this weekend called No ForeignersContinue reading “THE GOTHAMIST INTERVIEW: SEPT. DAY 4 — WARREN LEIGHT”

You see, I’m trying to see every New York Film Festival press screening, but having to edit that Christine Vachon interview and then also write this week’s Gothamist Movie Guide, I didn’t get to bed until nearly 4 AM which made the 9 AM screening at the Walter Reade just about impossible. Now sure, IContinue reading “THE WEEK(END) IN PREVIEW: I THINK I’VE OVERCOMMITTED MYSELF”

Simply put, Christine Vachon is one of the most important producers to have come upon the New York independent film scene, and since at least the early ’90s, she and her company Killer Films have consistently put out daring and provocative films. Everybody might now always like all the films to come out of theContinue reading “THE GOTHAMIST INTERVIEW: SEPT. DAY 3 — CHRISTINE VACHON”

So you may have noticed that I didn’t write anything about the Emmys. As cinetrix mentioned yesterday, it’s a total cliche to write posts about why one isn’t writing posts, yet I find myself spiraling further and further into a deep dark pit of cliche everyday, so why not continue the trend. As I mentionedContinue reading “YET ANOTHER QUICK NOTE ABOUT THE BEST SHOW YOU’RE NOT WATCHING”

OK, not sure what happened, but this post was supposed to go up YESTERDAY. I had it ready to go, and Typepad should have automatically published it around 11 AM, but for some reason it didn’t. Not that it really matters. I’m guessing most people who read this blog also read Gothamist. Anyway, whatever. TheContinue reading “THE GOTHAMIST INTERVIEW: SEPT. DAY 2 — BOB TUSCHMAN”

Another month, another series of Gothamist Interviews, and the ones we’re doing for September are a great group starting today with a chat I had (just yesterday, in fact) with Liev Schreiber. target=”_blank”>Schreiber is one of today’s most talented actors working in both film and theater. His recent performance on Broadway as Ricky Roma inContinue reading “THE GOTHAMIST INTERVIEW: SEPT. DAY 1 — LIEV SCHREIBER”

These weeks are flying by, and I’m not actually getting to anything. I did have a bit of a DiVo’d-from-TCM day last Sunday where I watched, among other things, the absolutely brilliant Preston Sturges comedy The Palm Beach Story. Does anybody anywhere ever write lines like as smart, witty and biting as Sturges once did?Continue reading “THE WEEK(END) IN PREVIEW: TOO MANY NEW RELEASES”

Could we please just slow the hell down. Seriously. August flew by. September is nearly half over. And I really can’t tolerate this anymore, so someone just put a little bit of freeze on the timeline if you could. I’d appreciate it. Danke. No, the “Gothamist Movie Guide” does not take me an entire weekContinue reading “AARON GETS PERSONAL – WHERE HAVE I BEEN?”