Filmmaker Woody Allen says New York too expensive to shoot films

Woody Allen says he started shooting movies in European cities because he couldn’t afford to do it in New York any longer .Allen told reporters Tuesday in the northern Spanish city of Oviedo that he finds Manhattan poses fewer limitations than European cities, where far more tailoring of the story is required to fit the [...]

Summer Cinema

It an opportunity to mingle and network with your film making peers. At the same time check out the work of others and receive help full critics from your contemporaries. There will be great drink specials! Filmmakers who wish to screen should bring their films on dvd to the event and sign up at the beginning of the event ,it’s first come, first served.

Opening Night of Rooftop Films 14th Annual Summer Series Rooftop of “Underground Movies Outdoors”

Rooftop is all about the value of a work of art isn’t judged by how long it is, but how long it stays in the mind. These films you will rememberthe themes will linger in your mind .A genre unto themselves, this is what is ment by short films.

“The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer” at the Tribeca Film Festival

The much anticipated documentary about former New York governor Eliot Spitzer premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. The film is directed by Alex Gibney, whose “Taxi to the Dark Side” won the 2007 documentary Oscar. Many of those interviewed for the film were in attendance Saturday evening, Eliot Spitzer ie… client number 9 was not. Director Alex Gibney interviewed Spitzer four times over a two year period to make the film.

Wallabout Film Festival

The Wallabout film festival is produced and curated by an interdisciplinary team of students from Pratt Institute. Showcasing films by innovative student filmmakers from around the world,

“The Cartel” movie screening

Only 35 percent of American high school seniors are proficient readers. Only 23 percent are proficient in math. Nationwide, only 74 percent of ninth graders graduate within four years and that number drops to about 50 percent for black and Hispanic students. Twelve percent of American high schools are “dropout factories” schools where less than 60 percent of freshmen even make it to their senior year.

Film Forum, NYC

If you are a cinema buff, you must have got that feeling occasionally to catch up with classics and revisit some memorable moments. Now, the problem with that may be that the movie you want to watch may not be aired on popular movie channels or available on DVDs. What do you then? Kill your [...]

Sex and the City 2

There back ,the Sex and the City Ladies are here for one more act .A full trailer for “Sex and the City 2″ has finally been released, and it unveils all sorts of fantastic new things for the foresome . Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia NIxon, Kim Cattrall and Kristin Davis all return in various states of fabulousness 2 years older and perhaps a bit wiser. With Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw married to Mr. Big a.k.a. John James Preston, played by Chris Noth; and Carrie feeling oh say a bit ” too married”

FREE MOVIE – The Agronomist

“The Agronomist” ,Jonathan Demme, 2004, 90min. classic film about Jean Leopold Dominique who hosted Radio Haiti-Inter, Haiti’s first independent radio station. Jonathan Demme puts together this documentary with historical footage and interviews. The result is a serious recount of Haiti during its numerous regimes and regime changes.

Time Warner Center

When it comes to the Time Warner Center, the general reaction of New Yorkers is mixed. While some have dismissed this as yet another ambitious skyscraper standing among the hundreds (or is it thousands?) here, others go to the extent of calling it the new Rockefeller Center of New York. Ada Louise Huxtable of the [...]