Angels Are Made Of Light is a Devastating Look at the Struggles to Educate the Next Generation in War-Torn Kabul | NYFF 2018

The teacher tells the children that angels are made of light. We can’t seem them, but looking down from heaven, they can see us. In the bombed out capital of Kabul, all the children see when they look up is…

Carmine Street Guitars is a Breezy Look at One of the Last True Craftsman of Greenwich Village | NYFF 2018

The old man calls them the “bones of the city”—gangly guitars scraped, carved, and burnt from the discarded lumber of old New York City buildings. He salvages the wood—mostly virgin timber from the Adirondacks harvested over 200 years ago—from dumpsters…

Movie Review: Manchester by the Sea

There’s a tragedy at the core of Manchester by the Sea, but you’d never see it behind that emotionless wall separating Casey Affleck from the rest of the world. His eyes are remote and affectionless, but not unreachable—that tiny thread…