Kirsten Studio

Last night I finally got around to seeing An Education (Directed by Lone Scherfig and Edited by Barney Pilling).  I initially wanted to see it because of my fondness for late 50′s and 60′s period films or movies from that time.  A great era in style if you ask me.  This film is of course much [...]

I watched the documentary Triage: Dr. James Orbinski’s Humanitarian Dilemma awhile back.  It followed James Orbinski on a return trip to Africa, a place where he previously was a field doctor during the Somali famine and the Rwandan genocide.  He recalled horrific stories from that time and even though we’re not seeing this nightmare as it [...]

For those that are employed in the documentary film and/or television arena, New York Women in Film and Television have put together a great event calendar for the month of March.  NYWIFT offer two case studies on the documentaries By the People: The Election of Barack Obama and Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg.  Also their regular monthly [...]

A new 2 volume collection from Sony, entitled Bad Girls of Film Noir gets it’s release this week and despite my feminist approach to most things, I have an incredible weakness for film noir.  Although some would argue these characters have influenced feminism in some ways.  I’m not totally unsympathetic to that either, but it’s [...]

Peter Cooper Stuyvesant Town is a 25,000 tenant rich community is now in peril. In 2006, the New York City real estate firm Tishman Speyer Properties and BlackRock Realty Advisors paid $5.4 billion for the Manhattan apartment complexes.  A joint venture between Tishman and BlackRock hinged on raising the apartment rents. Tenants sued Tishman to keep their [...]

Last week I went on a winter coastal road trip.  It was fun to get out of the city, visit smaller towns and see more of the country.  During this trek I stayed in a handful of towns along the eastern coast and throughout my travels I noticed how very few old time independently run [...]