Transatlantic Walters
News, views and interviews from Ben Walters in the Big Apple
Do look back on these New York stories
Ben Walters: A spate of recent New York-set documentary films have engaged with the city's not-so-distant history to endlessly intriguing effect
Some lessons from the retaking of Pelham 1 2 3
Ben Walters: Tony Scott's remake of the 1974 thriller about a subway train hijacking has updated certain elements of the story – not necessarily a good thing
A night at the New York drag races
Ben Walters: Drag Show Video Vérité, an annual feature of performance footage taken in New York, pays homage to drag's 50-year journey from outlawed act to an art form now grazing the mainstream
Rambo redux, as a homemade, one-man, no-budget movie
Ben Walters: Forget Son of Rambow. A New York film-maker has made an even more lo-fi version of First Blood for the princely sum of $96
New York narratives take starring role at Brooklyn film festival
Ben Walters: With this year's versions of Annie Hall and Shortbus on the bill, as well as some 'crack nostalgia' docs, Brooklyn film festivalgoers get to chow down on revamped Big Apple stories
The life aquatic in Jean Painlevé's submarine cinema
Ben Walters: An evening celebrating the underwater documentaries of the early 20th-century cinematic pioneer showcased short films that lifted the veil on the weird and wonderful life of the deep
Ethan Coen assumes office of American work-ethic satirist
Ben Walters: The Coen brother skewers postwar US work culture in his new theatrical venture, but it's hard not to see hints of his cinematic oeuvre in it, from Fargo to Burn After Reading
Tribeca film fest spotlights New York stories
Ben Walters: From CBGB to No Wave, several documentary features at this year's Tribeca film festival chronicled the fabled histories of the city's music, film and art scenes
Steven Soderbergh on The Girlfriend Experience: 'I hired real people and turned them loose'
Ben Walters: The director of the Ocean's films has a long-standing interest in non-traditional actors. In The Girlfriend Experience, he has gone a step further in casting a real-life porn star. At the Tribeca film festival, he explains why
Lean streets: the credit crunch takes its toll on Robert De Niro's Tribeca film festival
Ben Walters: Robert De Niro's film festival plays host to new films from Spike Lee and Woody Allen in bid to give New York a 'financial and psychological boost'
Chelsea Hotel on Film: a film fest as diverse as its residents
Ben Walters: New York's Chelsea Hotel was a byword for bohemian living and a magnet for talents from Twain to Hendrix to Warhol. A season of films paid an apt tribute to its place in pop culture
When John Waters met the art grannies
The outré world of Pink Flamingos collided with the rarefied realm of fine art as cult director John Waters took art patrons round his new exhibition, Rear Projection
Brief encounters of the animal kind: Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno
Ben Walters: Isabella Rossellini has found her calling, as the director and presenter of Green Porno, a series of beautifully hand-crafted short films about the sex lives of animals
A look back at Kenneth Anger
Ben Walters: A new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art's Queens offshoot puts the spotlight deservedly on the unique, bizarre and intoxicating cinema of Kenneth Anger
Remembering Midnight Cowboy
Ben Walters: There were memories and misremembrances, gripes and snipes at the 40th anniversary screening of Midnight Cowboy this week. Texan Joe and Ratso would have been proud
No variety in this list of the summer blockbusters to watch
Ben Walters: Sure, studio execs are hugging themselves with glee over a summer slate that promises a box-office bonanza, but as Variety's rundown amply demonstrates, there's nothing we ain't seen before
Ramin Bahrani and the new American reality
Ben Walters: This young director's detailed, clear-eyed depictions of America reflect a desire to see real lives on the screen
Brooklyn DIY: hymning Williamsburg's can-do creativity
Ben Walters meets Marcin Ramocki, whose new documentary traces the New York neighbourhood's changing fortunes, from light-industrial centre to artistic enclave to hipster hangout
Slumdogs and millionaires at Manhattan's Film Forum
Ben Walters: A season of Depression-era movies called Breadlines & Champagne showcases studio film-making at its most vibrant. Can we expect so rich an aesthetic stimulus package from the current financial crisis?
Holy billboard: what binds movie posters and religion
Ben Walters: Who knew that religion was responsible for the birth of the one-sheet film promo?
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