Film Review: Don’t Let Me Drown "Don't Let Me Drown" is one of the best film portraits yet of New York City in the aftermath of 9/11, where a city and its people cope with collective post-traumatic ...
Sundance isn’t just a place; it’s a state of mind. Or rather, it’s a state of business. Even though I didn’t go to Park City this year, the event transcends geographical borders, existing in the DVD ...
The tragic events of September 11, 2001, are instrumental for bringing together two young people (Gleendilys Inoa, E.J. Bonilla) from opposite sides of the tracks. Written and directed by Cruz Angeles ...
Set in working-class Brooklyn just after 9/11, co-writer/director Cruz Angeles’ teen love story deals tangentially with survivor’s guilt and Ground Zero asbestos poisoning, but not so much as to ...
Another one of the movies at the top of my must see list, and another letdown. I am not saying that the movie was bad, because it wasn’t. It just isn’t anything new, its more of the same urban teen ...
Filmmaker Cruz Angeles Makes Uncomfortable ArtOne of our favorite films at this year’s Sundance Film Festival was Cruz Angeles’s beautiful debut feature. So we decided to delve into his back catalogue ...
[PREMIERE SCREENING: Sunday, Jan. 18, 12:15 pm — Eccles Theatre, Park City] Not all, but the majority of short-form works on the Net are gimmicky and instant pleasures — like candy. I am not ...