Tomorrow night at 8pm IFC is paying tribute to Harvey Pekar, who recently passed away, with the film ‘American Splendor’ which is based on his life. It was a critical hit when it came out back in 2003, hitting an impressive 90 in Metacritic and a 94 on Rotten Tomatoes. Afterwards, there will be a [...]

Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich, Where the Wild Things Are, Adaptation) will be at IFC at 7pm on Thursday to show his short film “I’m Here,” a tender love story between two robots (in a plot based off of Shel Silverstein’s “The Giving Tree”). The Abolut-funded project debuted at Sundance this year. It’s, in a [...]

Louis CK is one of the funniest comedians working today. His new stand-up concert film, Hilarious, was the first of its kind to play at Sundance (it screened there earlier this year). It opens in NY at the IFC Center on 9/8 and 9/9. The 9/8 screenings are sold out, but two more have been [...]

Some movies run off the rails. This one is like the train crash in The Fugitive. I watched it in mounting gloom, realizing I was witnessing something historic, a film that for decades to come will be the punch line of jokes about bad movies. (Roger Ebert) It got the Razzie Award for Worst Movie [...]

A spectacular Ozu retrospective is under way at the IFC Center. Often called the “most Japanese” of Japanese filmmakers, Ozu (1903-1963) first began working in cinema in 1923 as an assistant cameraman for the Shochiku company-the studio where he would make all but three of his 53 films. He directed his first film, THE SWORD [...]