A Master of the American Soul: Locarno to Bestow Lifetime Achievement Honor on James Gray
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The Locarno Film Festival has announced that its prestigious Pardo alla Carriera (Lifetime Achievement Award) will be presented this year to James Gray, the visionary American auteur whose career has redefined the landscape of contemporary independent…
The Resurrected Soul of the East Village: The Unlikely Renaissance of No Picnic
In the annals of American independent cinema, few stories are as improbable—or as heartwarming—as the recent rediscovery of No Picnic (1986). A gritty, luminous, and deeply ethnographic portrait of New York’s Lower East Side in the mid-1980s, the film…
