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Need to Know: Film Fests in the Five Boroughs
Over the course of the year, New York film buffs can usually find at least one, if

not more, fests to attend each month. No matter what you like, you can find a festival for every taste and special interest, like The Bicycle Festival, celebrating all things on two wheels. And this doesn’t include specially programmed fests that outfits like the Film Forum and the Pioneer Theatre regularly put together. Here’s a sampler of 25 local fests, mostly in Manhattan but a couple from Queens and Brooklyn for good measure. (17 November 2006)
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Need to Know: Where'd All the Old Theaters Go?
I love the retro film fests at Film Forum. When I first moved to New York, in the early 80s, you could catch retro films at half a dozen or more indie theaters. Inspired by the Victor Fleming Fest, I set off on a digital search for those old theaters where you could smoke and drink through a well-curated double bill. (4 March 2010)
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NEWS ARCHIVE

Too Darn Hot! Cinema for a Muggy Manhattan Night
On Ann Miller steaming up a swanky New York pad and escaping the heat in the old Olympia Theater. (19 July 2013)
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A Transplant's Debt to the MOFTB
New York films are what make those of us who grew up anywhere else want to move here when we grow up. We see Diane Keaton and Woody Allen capping off an odd and elegant evening with hot dogs under the 59th St. Bridge, Dustin Hoffman going to town on the hood of a taxi in the middle of a busy intersection, Cher strolling home in Brooklyn Heights under an impossibly big moon, Audrey Hepburn sitting on a fire escape strumming a guitar, and we get a glimpse of ourselves leading a different life. (15 November 2006)
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NY Filmmakers on Sundance Channel

Two local indie film-making teams were featured in the Exposure short film special on Sundance Channel and SciFi Channel (now Syfy). The one-hour show spotlighted nine shorts chosen by voters in an eight-week online contest, including (blatant self-promotion ensues...) MsManhattan's own RF EYE-D. (18 April 2007)
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Made-in-New-York Web Series
I'm sometimes preoccupied with wondering what it would have been like to grow up in New York. A friend who grew up on the Upper East Side says I romanticize his life when I imagine erudite discourse around the family dinner table, Saturday mornings in Central Park, a high school where even the dumb kids are smart. He's right: I do have a romantic notion about being a teenager in New York. The key word is teenager: No matter where you are, you've got the built-in Life Sucks factor. Filmed here, Anyone But Me is a Web series that offers a fresh and frank perspective on coming of age in New York in the post-9/11 world. (4 December 2008)
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