Detailed consideration of the craft of an actor’s performance in a single TV role.
Join us for a screening of the premiere episode! “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not after you.” Joseph Heller’s 1961 classic anti-war novel has been reimagined as an epic black comedy miniseries for Hulu. Christopher Abbott (Girls, James White) stars as John “Yo-Yo” Yossarian, a WWII bombardier who has a sense of the absurd […]
Free screening of the acclaimed “Love Is the Message” episode of FX’s Pose, written and directed by Janet Mock, recipient of the 2019 Split Screens Festival’s Vanguard Award, with a taped video introduction by Mock. Tickets will be distributed on a first-come, first served basis at the IFC Center box office, starting at 4:30 pm […]
No movie genre better expresses the creeping dread of modern life than the paranoid thriller, a mode where the heroes are marginalized, truth is elusive, and justice is deferred or denied. The genre arose in the chaos of the 1960s and ’70s, and thrived for a period of about fifteen years, producing such classics as […]
From the instant that Russian Doll’s hard-partying heroine, Nadia (Natasha Lyonne), ends her 36th birthday by dying a sudden, shocking death and being instantly resurrected, you know you’ve entered an East Village Twilight Zone where the established rules of existence have been replaced by a series of question marks. A time-loop narrative in the spirit […]
Pamela Adlon’s voice is as likely to get her recognized in public as her face. Between 1997 and 2010, she spoke for King of the Hill’s favorite son “Bobby,” while premium cable viewers loved her as the straight-shooting “Marcy Runkle” on Californication, which ran for seven seasons on Showtime. Now, the Emmy®-award winning actress, writer, producer […]
In what universe does a comedy centered upon questions of ethics and philosophy make it onto a major broadcast network, let alone last for four seasons? This one, luckily for us. But The Good Place leans much deeper into queries of what it means to be good and the nature of grace than it trades […]