Nearly a century onward from the Holocaust, filmmaker Tod Lending figured every story about the atrocity that claimed the lives of 6 million Jews had already been told. That was until he heard about Saul Dreier and Ruby Sosnowicz. The two, who reside in South Florida, survived the religious persecution of the Nazi regime and went on to form a klezmer act the Holocaust Survivor Band 70 years later.
Making a list of the year’s best films is an overwhelming endeavor for a film critic. Having seen more than 150 cinematic works this year, I found it tough to limit the stellar ones to 20. The list lost exciting films as ambitious and messy as the Matthew McConaughey-starring Serenity, as provocative and intriguing as Holiday, and as gorgeously animated and tender as Weathering With You.
For the past half-decade, local film experts — including critics, programmers, professors, and filmmakers — have picked their favorite flicks of the year for the Miami Film Awards. The results were published on the website Dim the House Lights in 2015 and 2016 before moving to New Times in 2017 and 2018. Now they’re back to close out the decade.
“Mucho Mucho Amor” — a documentary about the late astrologer Walter Mercado — and the Borscht-produced film “Omniboat” are among the Miami-born projects that will screen at the 2020 edition of Sundance.
The Miami Jewish Film Festival (MJFF) is set to return for its 23rd edition January 9 through 23, 2020, when it will premiere more than a hundred films from 25 countries. The fest will screen its largest collection yet and boasts 33 films directed by women (composing nearly a third of the lineup).
Trey Edward Shults, the director of “Krisha” and “It Comes at Night,” discusses his latest movie, “Waves,” which is set in South Florida.
The writer/director behind “The Squid and the Whale” and “Frances Ha” spoke with New Times about crafting a tale of two cities in his latest film, as well as his and Adam Driver’s shared love of Stephen Sondheim’s musical “Company.”
The woman-led production was produced through Borscht’s No Bro Zone, a three-year-old initiative designed to empower female filmmakers.
America’s foremost purveyor of smut and unabashedly trashy pop culture dishes with about his new book and Netflix before his appearance at Miami Book Fair 2019 Tuesday, November 19.
This Saturday, November 2, Coral Gables Art Cinema will screen Dolemite, a blaxploitation classic that marked the cinematic debut of nightclub comic Rudy Ray Moore.
“It’s a blast; I’m superproud of it. If I wasn’t, I’d let history bury it,” Mark Patton says of the flick that was supposed to make him a star, 1985’s A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge. Patton wound up having a complicated relationship with the Freddy Krueger sequel that was lambasted by critics but cleaned up at the box office.
With Carros, 21-year-old filmmaker Alec Castillo looked to make a subtle statement on the treatment of Cuba in pop culture.
“Moonlight” producer and Borscht Corp. cofounder Andrew Hevia’s documentary “Leave the Bus Through the Broken Window” examines Art Basel’s nascent Hong Kong fair and how it relates to that city’s artists.
The Miami Film Festival is back with its annual Gems — a weekend of movie premieres showing at the Tower Theater. Perhaps the most anticipated of these screenings is Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain and Glory, which will open the four-day minifestival Thursday, October 10. But as New Times film critics Juan…
With so many options to choose from, navigating Miami’s film festival scene can prove challenging for even the most dedicated cinephiles.
Big Mouth writer Victor Quinaz says Miami’s independent film scene has greatly expanded since his days growing up in the Magic City.
A new collectors’ book about Moonlight includes a forward written by Frank Ocean.
In the film Netizens, Emmy-nominated writer and producer Cynthia Lowen explores the lives of three women victimized by online harassment.
The $18,000 Grand Jury cash prize marks the first such award to be offered by any Jewish film festival in the world.
Miami Dade College’s Miami Film Festival Gems 2019 has announced its full lineup.
Though many observers will cite “Moonlight” as a visual and narrative reference point (in part because both works were shaped by McCraney’s life experiences), “David Makes Man” allows familiar elements to play out differently.
After shuttering its Wynwood location, O Cinema is expanding to South Beach and vying to stay in North Beach.
