If you missed Heather Courtney’s powerful and important film Where Soldiers Come From at last year’s Rooftop Summer Series, it is now available for streaming or download.

Call me a curmudgeon, but most of these new 3D films give me a headache. Fortunately, with a little help from a resurgence of the New German Cinema, 3D is back and better than ever. Between Werner Herzog’s recent parlay into the third dimension with his documentary The Cave of Forgotten Dreams, and Wim Wender’s Pina, these giants of German cinema have proven that those dopey little glasses aren’t just for the likes of James Cameron anymore.

Everyone has seen it. Wife has husband, husband cheats on wife, wife gets angry. The story has played out many a time, but somehow Alison Bagnall’s beautifully understated film The Dish and the Spoon doesn’t just tell this story, it lets you live it.

For the past two years, Rooftop Film’s Program Director Dan Nuxoll and I have been researching the life of an alleged con artist and now convicted criminal named Marie Castaldo. Check out our Kickstarter campaign for more about how this all started.

The Superbowl for movie nerds is coming up and while I have no idea what went on this weekend in Indiana, I have plenty of ideas about what I think will go on at this year’s Oscars (February 26).

It’s been an incredible week for Rooftop grantees on both the awards and acquisitions fronts.

My taste in films tends more towards Pink Flamingos than Pretty in Pink (though I got love for John Hughes, no doubt), so a year that brought new films from Catherine Breillat and Pedro Almodóvar was a very good year indeed. A brief look back at 2011 before I plunge into 2012– looking ecstatically forward [...]

Rooftop alums Cambria Matlow and Morgan Robinson’s Burning in the Sun will make its national TV debut on Sunday, January 29, 2012 at 9pm EST & PST, as part of PBS’ AfroPop series.

In my final recap of the last year’s Sundance Film Festival, I mentioned that some of bigger Park City acquisitions appeared to me to be a bit overpriced, considering that I found their commercial prospects a bit murky. Sure enough, a recent rundown of the box office results for these films shows that a good [...]

Alumni filmmaker Keith Miller’s first feature film has been accepted, and will make its world premiere at the 2012 Slamdance Film Festival! Before they can head to Utah they need to make a few finishing touches, so they’ve launched a Kickstarter campaign and they need your help!