NYACK, NY – Rivertown film at the Nyack Center presents a screening of “Union Square” starring Mira Sorvino and Tammy Blanchard on Wednesday, October 17TH, at 8PM, followed by a q & a with director Nancy Savoca and producer Richard Guay. UNION SQUARE is the setting for an unexpected reunion between two estranged sisters, one of whom is on the verge of getting married, the other on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Or as A.O. Scott put it in The New York Times, it’s “the tale of two sisters divided by temperament, geography and class.” Director/Producer partners Nancy Savoca and Producer Richard Guay (True Love,...

Developed, financed and executive produced by Participant Media, the company responsible for AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, FOOD, INC. and WAITING FOR “SUPERMAN”, LAST CALL AT THE OASIS presents a powerful argument for why the global water crisis will be the central issue facing our world this century. Illuminating the vital role water plays in our lives, exposing the defects in the current system and depicting communities already struggling with its ill-effects, the film features activist Erin Brockovich and such distinguished experts as Peter Gleick, Alex Prud’homme, Jay Famiglietti and Robert...

Holy Bernie, Batman! An extremely enjoyable jaunt from start to finish, Bernie may be my favorite film of the year so far next to Project X, The Avengers, Chronicle and Thin Ice. This is a true story told with panache and gentle wit. Bernie (Jack Black) is the nicest guy, probably in the whole world. He spends all his time catering to other people’s needs. He buys people things and comforts them with eulogies and sings with great joy during church while leading the choir and cheers up the elderly and so on and so forth. He’s flippin great. Sadly, no one is that awesome without some flaw. Bernie’s weakness may be that he is...

Let me begin by saying that you must forgive my verbose digressions but I feel they are necessary for thinking through this film. Bully, not to be confused with Larry Clark’s shocking exhibition, is an interesting film, though not quite a great film. Many documentaries, or I should say, all, are biased in some way toward a particular subject or ideology that is put forth. The moment a shot is edited with another shot, it has been shaped to project the filmmakers point of view. Truly, even when a camera is turned on and framed on a specific subject, your pov is exhibited – you have already decided what to leave in or out of a...

Oh Lasse, what have you done here! You have crafted a film that is beautifully romantic and plausibly realistic and yet so unforgivably full of terrible cliches that I want my money back. I liked the romance of the story quite a lot. The scientist and the office girl meet and have no mutual attraction and no special intentions. In fact they are both involved in other relationships which is made painfully clear at the start. This initial a-fortuitous encounter becomes a relationship that blossoms into fluorescence with great yearning from the audience. I suspect from the trailer that you would expect a rather normal romance between man and...