Film
Picture Day Director Kate Melville on High School and Awful Yearbook Photos
Picture Day, a refreshing new film by writer-director Kate Melville, debunks the typical clichés of high school movies: that high school is a make-it-or-break-it teenage experience and a four-year quest for popularity. The story follows…
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Bevy Smith Shares Her Favorite Films From the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival
Co-host of Bravo's Fashion Queens talk show and longtime Friend of PAPER, Bevy Smith reports on her favorite films screened this year at the Tribeca Film Festival.Lenny Cooke The Safdie brothers' documentary Lenny Cooke was…
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Guide to Free Outdoor Movie Screenings In NYC
Though you're hard-pressed to find any drive-in movie theaters outside of Happy Days or Brady Bunch re-runs, there's still plenty of opportunities to get your open-air film fix. From sprawling parks to intimate bar backyards,…
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Screen Legend Karen Black Chats About Her Multi-Layered Career
When I first started taking movies seriously in the 1970s, Karen Black personified everything glamorous and exciting about Hollywood at that time. It was the era of "Easy Riders and Raging Bulls" -- a hip,…
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Filmmaker David Schlussel On His Tribeca Film Fest Debut
Setup, Punch TeaserIn the thirty second teaser for short film Setup, Punch, we see a nervous young man (played by Elijah Wood) stare at an engagement ring, splash water on his face, and join…
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Upstream Color director Shane Carruth: "It's All Just a Massive Lie"
Shane Carruth wrote, directed, scored, produced and starred in the 2004 time-travel mindfuck Primer, and then did it all again for his poetic fantasy Upstream Color--opening today in New York--for which he has also taken…
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The Official Trailer for The Bronies Doc Is Here
We've been deeply fascinated by the micro-culture known as bronies -- or males who have a deep and abiding love for My Little Pony -- for a while (our photographer Rebecca Smeyne shot a…
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Director Sarah Gertrude Shapiro On Destroying Beautiful Women in Sequin Raze
Sequin Raze, a new short film from director Sarah Gertrude Shapiro showing this weekend at MoMA and the Film Society of Lincoln Center's New Directors/New Films series, follows a producer for a Bachelor-esque reality…
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Here's Why Cousin Matthew Looks So Different
Since Downton Abbey's Dan Stevens appeared on the GLAAD Awards Red Carpet over the weekend debuting a slimmer, scruffier and darker-haired look, we've all been wondering what's prompted the new makeover. And, as we learned…
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A Guide to the ATL Twins
Photo by D David Crotty/PatrickMcMullan.comThough Harmony Korine's cooked up some pretty twisted characters in his new movie Spring Breakers -- from gun-toting, bank-robbing college girls to a cornrowed drug dealer named Alien that talks…
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Meet Gimme the Loot's Tashiana Washington
Actress Tashiana Washington stars in the charming, low-key Gimme the Loot as brash tomboy Sophia, one of two young graffiti writers (Ty Hickson plays the other) who spend a summer weekend scheming to tag the iconic…
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Top 10 Things We Want to See In a Veronica Mars Movie
After Veronica Mars was prematurely cancelled back in 2007, the beloved mid-aughts Nancy Drew-esque series starring Kristen Bell is becoming a movie -- and making Kickstarter history. Last week creator Rob Thomas made a Kickstarter…
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We Rate the 10 Best Spring Break Movies
Where the Boys AreThe eternal question. The original spring break-blowout movie, this 1960 gem starred Connie Francis, Yvette Mimiex and Dolores Hart ,who later became a nun. It also features George Hamilton, Frank Gorshin…
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Cornrows or No, James Franco Stays in Character
Renaissance man James Franco continued in his role of press critic last night, when he appeared on The Tonight Show to promote the new film Spring Breakers. In the film, Franco adopts cornrows, grills and a…
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Parties, Predictions, Playlists and Old Hollywood Glamour
Our 2013 Oscars Predictions Our Guide to Award Night Parties in NYCThe Oscars Power Ballad PlaylistOld Hollywood: Oscars Photos from the Academy ArchiveGIF by Isabel Alcantara…
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Rarely Seen MLK Doc to Screen in Harlem
KING: A FILMED RECORD; MONTGOMERY TO MEMPHIS from Objective Cinema on Vimeo.In honor of Black History Month and the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, Harlem's Maysles Cinema has announced that it will…
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Watch the Trailer for Michel Gondry's Mood Indigo
French filmmaker Michel Gondry is back with a dreamy new romantic film titled Mood Indigo, starring Audrey Tautou and Romain Duris. Judging by the trailer (which features what appears to be an underwater wedding, flying cloud…
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The Best and Worst Films of 2012
As 2012 nears its end I'm still pissed off that I haven't seen Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty, which I know I'm going to love. But that said, there still was enough love to…
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10 Must-Have Blu-rays Or DVD Sets For the Holidays
Hitchcock Masterpiece Collection (Universal) This has 15 of the master of suspense's greatest films on Blu-ray, including his masterworks like Vertigo, Psycho, Rear Window, North By Northwest and Shadow Of A Doubt as well as…
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Take a First Look at James Duke Mason's New Political Thriller, Disappear Here
We told you about the Kickstarter for whippersnapper LGBT actvist and filmmaker James Duke Mason's noir thriller Disappear Here back in August, and now we've gotten our mitts on some stills from the movie's trailer.…
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