by Mike Hammer | Jun 4, 2014 | Culture, Events, Movies
The view of the city during a film screening at Brookfield Place’s Rooftop Films. Lower Manhattan features some of the most beautiful city-scapes in all New York, and all summer long venues will be combining these sights with outdoor film screenings to provide a...
by Mike Hammer | Apr 25, 2014 | Culture, Movies
[slideshow_deploy id=’45672′] This is the second of several spotlight pieces by DOWNTOWN photographer and correspondent Leslie Hassler about some of the finer films, filmmakers and talent in this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. 5 to 7 is the kind of romantic...
by Mike Hammer | Apr 21, 2014 | Culture, Entertainment, Movies
[slideshow_deploy id=’45236′] This is the first of several spotlight pieces by DOWNTOWN photographer and correspondent Leslie Hassler about some of the finer films, filmmakers and talent in this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. Preservation follows...
by Mike Hammer | Mar 19, 2014 | Culture, Movies
Screenwriter and director Sofia Coppola is close to taking the director’s chair for a live-action version of The Little Mermaid, a fairy tale classic by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. Deadline.com reported last Tuesday that the award-winning director is...