Author Nolan Kelly

In the United States, regional filmmakers rarely get the same attention as their big-city counterparts, at least until they premiere in New York or L.A. This denial of certain geographic perspectives is bound u...

Something interesting happened in the opening minutes of Jafar Panahi’s No Bears when it was shown at the press preview for the New York Film Festival last month. Panahi’s new film is an intricate autofiction, ...

Independent American cinema is defined by the exigencies of its fundraising. In the shadow of the world’s largest entertainment industry – whose success is dependent on broad commercial appeal and consolidative...

About three-quarters of the way through the New York Film Festival’s press screenings, which unfolded in an orderly pace at Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater last month, I was struck by an unexpected and un...