Exceptional shorts Sylvia and You Still Can screen at the Spring 2025 New Jersey Film Festival on Opening Night!
by Morgan Kalmbach - published 2025-01-09
When beginning to craft their film, one of the many decisions a filmmaker must make surrounds the grounding of the film, i.e. how many characters, settings, and scenes their film will contain. Often, one might think a more busy and complex film would be best. However, it can also occur that the more subtle and approachable simpler films can become extremely layered and interesting in their fashion. This principle applies to many films but is especially present in Ezekiel Goodman and Hannah Zipperman’s Sylvia, and Samuel Edelsack’s You Still Can, both films that stray away from a more expansive and grand in scale style and instead turn towards a more intimate style that allows viewers to sit in its presence and characters through its usage of specific dialogue styles, color palettes, and music presence.
Comedian Laurie Kilmartin (CONAN staff writer) to Headline Four Shows in Rutherford
(RUTHERFORD, NJ) -- Comedian and veteran CONAN staff writer Laurie Kilmartin is headlining four shows at Bananas Comedy Club in Rutherford on Friday, January 24 and Saturday, January 25, 2025. Kilmartin's comedy is famously dark.
Great short The Performance premieres at the New Jersey Film Festival
by Vic Fern - published 2025-01-11
Al Nigrin, Executive Director and Curator of the New Jersey Film Festival, sits down with Salvatore Zeppi Rubinetti, the Writer & Director of The Performance for a filmmaker interview at EBTV.
Great short Chicken Broth Soup screens at the New Jersey Film Festival on Friday, January 24, 2025
by Yuri Kim - published 2025-01-12
It all starts with the buzzing of a fly. A woman with a cut on her lip stands crying while waiting in a hallway to see the body of her dead husband. The architecture surrounding her is uninviting. The coloring of the world is bleak, cold. The characters around her are careless and dismissive - a disinterested prosecutor who’s too preoccupied with his own phone calls, and a straight-faced doctor who clinically goes through the motions, step by step. What is the right thing to do in a world surrounded by impassion? What is fair? Is there really nothing one can do in a situation so hopeless? Or is that just an excuse to turn a blind eye? Like a persistent, buzzing fly, these questions prod and force us to jolt out of our comfortable seats while watching Chicken Broth Soup - directed and written by Deniz Büyükkırlı, who is known for her previous work on Pretty Little Liars (2015), Brave and Beautiful (2016), and Love Me As I Am (2013).
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Luna Stage to Hold Special Fundraiser; Italian Dinner and One Hour of "The Godfather" presented live by Nathan Darrow
(WEST ORANGE, NJ) -- Luna Stage presents a special fundraiser on Friday, January 24, 2025. The event includes a family style Italian dinner followed by Nathan Darrow performing 60 minutes of the iconic 1972 film, The Godfather, live.
She Shot a Short Film as a Sophomore. Now It's Part of the New Jersey Film Festival
by Mike Lucas - published 2025-01-13
Madeline "Maddy" Hettrick initially wanted to be in front of the camera, acting. Then she got behind one - and decided to stay there.
McCarter Theatre Center to Launch the National Tour of "Here There Are Blueberries" by Tectonic Theater Project
(PRINCETON, NJ) -- McCarter Theatre Center proudly launches the National Tour of Here There Are Blueberries, the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist play from Tectonic Theater Project by Tony and Emmy nominee Moisés Kaufman and Emmy nominee Amanda Gronich. The production runs January 24 through February 9, 2025.
NJPAC presents Comedian Jamie Lissow
(NEWARK, NJ) -- Comedian Jamie Lissow will bring his candid humor about politics, pop culture, and current events to the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) on Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 8:00pm. In addition to his stand-up comedy, Lissow has appeared in the Netflix Original Series Real Rob and co-hosts the podcast Afraid to Ask with Dr. Erika, where they discuss topics related to health, dating, sex, and divorce.
The Genesis Show to recreate A Trick of The Tail at The Newton Theatre
(NEWTON, NJ) -- The Genesis Show returns to The Newton Theatre on Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 8:00pm. This time the band is recreating the 1976 A Trick of the Tail Tour.
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