One-stop site for NYC alternative film screenings: Repertory Revivals | Local Premieres | In-Person Events | Advance Previews | Fests | Free Booze By Tom McCormack on May 11, 2012 STARTING TONIGHT the East Village intersection of 2nd and 2nd will become a meeting point for the eccentric, the willfully marginal, the obscure, the radical. The fourth-annual Migrating Forms festival, a reincarnation of the long-running New York Underground Film Festival (1994–2008), returns to Anthology Film Archives through May 20th. Opening the fest is [...] By Alt Screen on May 6, 2012 Playing Sun May 13 at 1:00 at Museum of the Moving Image [Program & Tix] The final day of “If Looks Could Kill” in this year’s annual Fashion in Film Festival at MoMI. In ... Continue reading →

Wes Anderson is out in the open and back on form, writes Ryan Gilbey. Hayward and Gilman in Moonrise Kingdom. No evolutionary timeline is necessary to illustrate the career of Wes Anderson. His sensibility (bittersweet, archaic) and visual style (fastidious, enamoured with tableaux and cross- sections) are unusual in being intact from his earliest films, Bottle Rocket and Rushmore. His heroes have always been romantic misfits with OCD tendencies and absent or unreliable parents; his outlook steeped in hipster chic. Even Fantastic Mr Fox, a stop-motion animation adapted from the book by Roald Dahl, could not evict the director from his comfort zone, a genre we might call “melanchomedy”. The only thing more repetitious than the films is the critic who complains about how repetitious ... Continue reading →