Lorde’s song "Team," with its lyrics "we live in cities you’ll never see on screen; not very pretty but we sure know how to run things,” seems to sum up the bas...
Grand ideas changing skylines and sidewalks take center stage in Big Time, an illuminating portrait of starchitect Bjarke Ingels. Directed by Kaspar Astrup Schr...
Set against the backdrop of the Grand Rapids' ArtPrize, More Art Upstairs is a relaxed and immersive look at an event that consumes the city for three weeks eve...
Embodying every cliché of the working class New York City loudmouth is long-time local legend Curtis Sliwa, founder of the Guardian Angels, an organization of d...
Following up on a landscape previously documented in Ramin Bahrani’s brilliant narrative feature Chop Shop, directors Prudence Katze and William Lehman chronicl...
For some who grow up in rural Arkansas there's limited options: you can either be a meth dealer or a cop chasing meth dealers. Set in a close-knit community of ...
Functioning in the mode of a lifestyle documentary like Dogtown and Z-Boys, Ben Patterson’s Maddman: The Steve Madden Story tells the sweeping take the shoe imp...
Produced collaboratively by the Detroit Free Press and community institutions, 12th and Clairmount is a rare immersive look at Detroit during the unrest of 1967...
In Kalgoorlie, Australia, once a booming town, men used to come to pick the gold from the hills until the market took a nosedive leading to a negative effect on...
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.
