Nearly 24 years ago, Chris Wilcha premiered his debut feature documentary, Target Shoots First, a fascinating personal essay shot on a Hi8 camera gifted to him...
A meditation on the work of German painter and sculptor Anselm Kiefer, Wim Wenders' concise, spare 3D documentary Anselm allows us to spend time in the presenc...
Following, in intimate detail, the making of an art star in her early days, Lea Glob’s Apolonia, Apolonia is a powerful meditation on art and evolution. At one...
Starting with a modest proposal framing Black power as the erasure of systemic white supremacy, Sam Pollard and Llewellyn M. Smith's South to Black Power, writ...
By far one of the most delightful films of the year––even when it breaks your heart––Pablo Berger’s Robot Dreams is a deceptively simple take on companionship ...
As far as the music documentary is an extension of a brand experience, Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero provides an illuminating look behind the scenes, demystifyi...
Examining the growing pains of The 19th*, a non-profit, non-partisan news agency founded right before COVID swept the United States in 2020, Breaking the News ...
It was just as well that Cypher was the only public screening I attended at this year’s Tribeca Festival that wasn’t preceded by an introduction from a member ...
After getting off to a shaky start, David Duchovny’s second directorial feature Bucky F*cking Dent delivers some hard truths and profound wisdom against the ba...
Robert Evans claims to have told Francis Ford Coppola, after an initial private screening of The Godfather, "You shot a saga, but you turned in a trailer." Unf...
John Fink is a New York City area-based critic, filmmaker, educator and curator. He currently serves as the Artistic Director of the Buffalo International Film Festival.
