Clinton Krute

Homegrown

By Clinton Krute

November 21, 2019

Folkstreams is gold mine of music documentaries, ethnographic films, and educational movies with little-to-no commercial appeal

Short Takes: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

By Clinton Krute

November 6, 2019

By blending the very serious with the childlike, Heller’s film locates real feeling in what could easily have been a run-of-the-mill tearjerker

Subcontinental Divide: Ritwik Ghatak

By Jacob Levich

November 5, 2019

Revisit this 1988 essay on the undiscovered art of Indian cinema’s maverick, whose films are currently screening at Film at Lincoln Center

Playlist: NYFF57 Contest

By Clinton Krute

October 3, 2019

In the groove: this year’s selection is also notable for its wealth of music, with films from Scorsese to Sciamma employing pop songs as narrative fulcrums

Elia Kazan’s America

By Estelle Changas

October 1, 2019

In this 1972 essay, Changas explores the director’s body of work and commercial decline. America America screens at the NYFF on October 2

Playlist: Punks, Poets & Valley Girls

By Clinton Krute

August 13, 2019

Pretty vacant: a series at BAM yields a varied mix of post-punk, minimalism, and smooth pop

Higher Learning: Chromatic Modernity

By Sarah Street and Joshua Yumibe

August 2, 2019

Technicolor dreams: our modern sense of color as a standardized commodity is intertwined with the history of cinema

Playlist: Les Blank’s Chulas Fronteras and Del Mero Corazon

By Clinton Krute

June 27, 2019

Border crossing: Les Blank’s joyous celebrations of Tejano music and culture return to the screen

Playlist: Zerzura

By Clinton Krute

June 5, 2019

Tower of song: the Niger-set ”acid western” features a soundtrack that weds the ancient and the modern

Playlist: Ennio Morricone

By Clinton Krute

April 15, 2019

Sensing a theme: listen to two curated mixes drawn from the composer's expansive body of work

Playlist: The Films of William Ferris

By Clinton Krute

March 28, 2019

Blues connotations: the music of the rural South in the rough-hewn documentaries of William Ferris

Playlist: Babylon

By Clinton Krute

March 7, 2019

Chant down Babylon kingdom: a heady dub-heavy mix inspired by Franco Rosso's newly restored 1980 film