Hugo (2011) A Film by Martin Scorsese

For two films in a row now, Martin Scorsese has staged a climactic scene around the ascension of a staircase. Atop one staircase is light ( ...

Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011) A Film by Sean Durkin

This year, the annual film to inspire typically half-baked inquiries over reality vs. fantasy, questions such as "is it all in her head...

Screening Notes #8

Not One Less (1999): Despite his activist aspirations, Zhang Yimou just ends up generalizing notions of rural poor and urban bureaucracy to...

TIE: A Selection of Shorts

TIE , the International Experimental Cinema Exposition, is a traveling program of experimental films curated by Christopher May that seeks t...