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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.


 

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Middletown Arts Center presents a Screening of "Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers"

(MIDDLETOWN, NJ) -- The Middletown Arts Center presents the incomparable, new documentary film, Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers by EXHIBITION ON SCREEN, on Sunday, January 26, 2025 at 2:00pm. Gain privileged access to the National Gallery's blockbuster exhibition, Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers, as the film takes the viewer on a tour of this once-in-a-century show of works by Vincent van Gogh.

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).

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.

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.


 

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New Jersey Film Festival Spring 2025 Video Overview

by Vic Fern - published 2025-01-08

Prof. Al Nigrin, Executive Director and Curator of the New Jersey Film Festival, provides an overview of the films that make up the Spring 2025 festival. The festival runs January 24 - February 21st 2025, view the full lineup and learn more here. 

New Release Review - "The Order"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com - published 2025-01-06

If you've seen Oliver Stone's 1988 film Talk Radio you'll be tangentially aware of one of the subplots within Justin Kurzel's true crime thriller The Order. Stone's film was inspired by the story of Alan Berg, a Jewish radio talk show host who was targeted by a neo-Nazi group known as "The Order." As played by Marc Maron, Berg's voice is the first we hear in Kurzel's film, his words drawing the ire of a couple of white supremacists taking an ominous late night drive.

New Release Review - "Nosferatu"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com - published 2025-01-04

In 1922 a bunch of tight-fisted Germans made an adaptation of 'Dracula' without forking out for the rights to Bram Stoker's novel. The result was FW Murnau's Nosferatu, which immediately found itself in trouble with the Stoker estate, who ordered all prints of the movie be destroyed. Some prints survived, with Murnau's film going on to influence a century of vampire cinema. Subsequent Dracula movies have pulled as much from Murnau's film as from Stoker's novel, so much so that what we now think of as Dracula lore is a mashup of elements from Stoker's novel and Murnau's film.

New Release Review - "Scrap"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com - published 2024-12-26

Midway through Scrap, writer/director Vivian Kerr's feature expansion of her 2018 short of the same name, the film's anti-heroine Beth (played by the director) drags her long-suffering brother Ben (Anthony Rapp) back to the ice rink they frequented as kids. As Ben stumbles and falls, Beth glides gracefully across the ice, closing her eyes and savouring the moment. We suspect Beth has dual motivations for bringing her brother to the rink: she wants to recapture their childhood connection, but she also wants to see him flounder while she succeeds, as in every other aspect of their lives Beth is a trainwreck while Ben has it all, at least in his sister's eyes, with a successful career as a fantasy novelist.

New Release Review - "The Man In The White Van"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com - published 2024-12-22

1970s-set thriller The Man in the White Van purports to be inspired by real-life events. Some reviews have suggested it draws on the crimes of serial killer Billy Mansfield, though the villain's identity remains ambiguous throughout the film (likely to leave things open for a possible sequel). I suspect if director Warren Skeels were honest, he would admit to his primary influence being John Carpenter's Halloween. Like that classic, Skeel's narrative feature debut takes place in the final days of October and is centred on a virginal teenage girl being stalked by an antagonist who seems to have randomly chosen her as his target (let's not forget the sister/brother stuff didn't pop up until Halloween II). As the title implies, the villain here spends most of his screen time unseen behind the wheel of a white van, and the stalking scenes recall the early segments of Halloween in which Michael Myers pursues Laurie Strode while commandeering a stolen station wagon. The van becomes something of a villain itself, like the eponymous Plymouth Fury of Carpenter's Christine, the truck from Spielberg's Duel, or the car from, well, The Car. Were it not for a series of flashbacks, we might wonder if there really is a human driver behind that foggy windscreen.



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 Friday, May 02, 2025 @ 7:30pm
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The ShowRoom presents January with Joan: A Film Series Celebrating the Versatility of Joan Crawford

(ASBURY PARK, NJ) -- The ShowRoom presents January with Joan, a special film series featuring four classic Joan Crawford films. This celebration of Crawford's extraordinary range as an actress kicks off Thursday, January 16 and runs through January 30, 2025. Tickets are just $15, and each screening offers a unique opportunity to experience the unmatched versatility of one of Hollywood’s most dynamic stars.

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Exceptional shorts Sylvia and You Still Can screen at the Spring 2025 New Jersey Film Festival on Opening Night!

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Great short The Performance premieres at the New Jersey Film Festival

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Great short Chicken Broth Soup screens at the New Jersey Film Festival on Friday, January 24, 2025

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