NY Film Fest Still Exploring Live Elements For Fall Edition, Unveils Program Changes

There’s an elegant, almost poetic silence to one of the most compelling scenes of “On the Record,” a powerful new documentary about sexual violence that knows just when to dial down to a hushed quiet.

There’s an elegant, almost poetic silence to one of the most compelling scenes of “On the Record,” a powerful new documentary about sexual violence that knows just when to dial down to a hushed quiet.

NEW YORK -- NBC “Tonight” show host Jimmy Fallon has apologized for doing an impersonation of fellow comic Chris Rock while in blackface during a 2000 episode of “Saturday Night Live.”

NEW YORK (AP) — NBC “Tonight” show host Jimmy Fallon has apologized for doing an impersonation of fellow comic Chris Rock while in blackface during a 2000 episode of “Saturday Night Live.”

Producer/director Paul Feig is a bona-fide starmaker. His hit 2011 movie “Bridesmaids” launched Melissa McCarthy into the stratosphere; his cult TV series, “Freaks and Geeks” (1999-2000), was a major early stepping stone for Hollywood A-listers Jason Segel, Seth Rogen, James Franco, Busy Phillips and Linda Cardellini.

You’ve never heard “Dancing with Myself” quite like this.

An intriguing and well-executed attempt to supply something Americans were denied in 2014, Roee Messinger's American Trial: The Eric Garner Story uses non-actors and real community members to imagine a trial that Staten Island grand jurors inexplicably refused to hold: In this conjured reality, unlike our own, NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo is indicted for reckless manslaughter and first-degree strangulation in the killing of unarmed New Yorker Eric Garner.

“Headed back to the office after yesterday’s briefing. After 75 days, this is what sleep looks like…,” New York Governor Andrew Cuomo captioned a May 15 Instagram post.

“These Thems” is my humanitarian gift to the world. I know, that sounds very grandiose, but as an artist and a Pisces, that accurately describes how I feel.

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On Mon. May 11, New York’s largest poverty fighting organization Robin Hood raised $115 million during its Rise Up New York! benefit.

Gloves up! Mike Tyson teased his boxing comeback on Monday, May 11, 15 years after his last fight.

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Organizers of the New York Film Festival, one of the signature cultural events in the city hardest-hit by COVID-19, say they are still exploring a range of scenarios for the 58th edition this fall, including live events.