TERRA UPDATE: MENI TSIRBAS AND DANE SMITH INTERVIEW

TERRA UPDATE: MENI TSIRBAS AND DANE SMITH INTERVIEW

Check out this interview to see how Meni and Producer Dane Smith (formerly the Rooftop publicity go-to guy) plan on adapting the short film Terra (Rooftop 2004) into the first ever CGI feature film with an overtly political message. How are they going to pull this off? Well, Brian Cox, Dennis Quaid, Amanda Peet, Chris […]

KILLER OF SHEEP AT IFC

KILLER OF SHEEP AT IFC

  Former Rooftop curators Imagenation reminded me this morning to support the opening of Charles’ Burnett’s classic 1977 American Neo-Realist film, Killer of Sheep, at the IFC Center this weekend. If you don’t know much about the film, you can read on ReverseShot.com about how much better than Bubble it is. Or you can just […]

NEW ALBUM FROM VIC THRILL

NEW ALBUM FROM VIC THRILL

  Vic Thrill and the Saturn Missile have a new album out, and of course it is packed with multi-layered, retro-futuristic, electro-infused power-pop. If you have seen them play at a Rooftop show before, I am sure you remember them–their shows are unforgettable and Vic and the MIssile are are great to be around even […]

NYUFF IN NYC THIS WEEKEND

NYUFF IN NYC THIS WEEKEND

  The one and only original New York Underground Film Festival starts up this weekend and there are going to be dozens–literally dozens–of beloved Rooftop alumni at the Anthology Film Archives with their new films and selected classics. Some of the films/filmmakers you should check out are: *Jim Finn’s latest socialist masterpiece * Sundance roommate […]

TRAILER FOR BEN ZEITLIN’S GLORY AT SEA

TRAILER FOR BEN ZEITLIN’S GLORY AT SEA

  The trailer for Court 13’s Rooftop Films’ Filmmaker’s Funded short Glory at Sea is online and it looks freakin’ amazing. Shot entirely on location in Katrina-torn New Orleans, Glory at Sea tells the story of 11 survivors who build a boat and sail to sea to retrieve their loved ones from the bottom of […]

NEW DIRECTORS/ NEW FILMS REVIEW: JOHN CARNEY’S ONCE…

NEW DIRECTORS/ NEW FILMS REVIEW: JOHN CARNEY’S ONCE…

There have been a lot of attempts over the last ten years (or 40 years, or whatever) to update the classic Hollywood musical film. Most of these movies are pretty painful to watch. Dancer in the Dark, Moulin Rouge, Everyone Says I Love You, O Brother Where Art Thou?, etc., all suffer from one or […]

JUDGE AND HERTZFELDT’S THE ANIMATION SHOW

JUDGE AND HERTZFELDT’S THE ANIMATION SHOW

I should have mentioned this in January when they were in New York, but since I didn’t (and the IndieWire article reminded me), I guess I will plug it now. Every year Mike Judge (of Beavis and Butthead, Office Space and Idiocracy fame) and Don Hetzfeldt (whose film Everything Will Be OK was awarded best […]

ROOFTOP SHORTS CASIMIR NOZKOWSKI’S GHETTO BIG MAC

ROOFTOP SHORTS CASIMIR NOZKOWSKI’S GHETTO BIG MAC

SXSW REVIEW BILLY THE KID

SXSW REVIEW BILLY THE KID

When Jennifer Venditti was casting Carter Smith’s Sundance award-winning Bugcrush, a gay-themed horror short about small town teens, she scouted a high school in rural Maine for weeks, sitting in the cafeteria and observing students, startled by the enduring strength of the social cliques. One time she sat with a group of bullies, and they […]

SXSW REVIEW QUIET CITY

SXSW REVIEW QUIET CITY

As a native New Yorker, I loved what director Aaron Katz and his tight crew accomplished presenting Brooklyn in their new film Quiet City – they found solace. The film follows a simple story – a young woman visits New York but can’t find her friend, and ends up spending the weekend with a slacker […]

Archives