comedy

Interview with Spectrum Filmmaker

January 7, 2014 | Anthony Parisi

In addition to being the Online Editor of the Cinema & New Media Arts, I also collaborate with program director Joshua Sikora and his independent film company, New Renaissance Pictures. Last year we began releasing an …

Much Acclaim About Almost Nothing

June 19, 2013 | Lindsay Marshall

Much Ado About Nothing is easy bait for would-be Shakespeareans. The low-hanging fruit of the comedies, it is the most translatable to a modern audience because of the simplicity of its plot and characters. In some …

The New Arrested Development

May 30, 2013 | Cinema & New Media Arts

The New Arrested Development Is Dark, Uneven and Frustrating. Can We Have Another?

James Poniewozik – TIME Entertainment

If you marathoned old AD before watching this, turning on the first episode (focused on a falling-out between …

The Warmth of “Parks & Rec”

May 2, 2013 | Cinema & New Media Arts

Matt Zoller Seitz at Vulture on Parks & Recreation:

More than any network sitcom since The Andy Griffith Show, Parks and Rec catches the spirit of Preston Sturges’s small-town comedies (Hail the Conquering Hero, The Miracle …

Film Festival Mad Libs

March 8, 2013 | Cinema & New Media Arts

Ethan Kuperberg writes an all-too true piece of satire for The New Yorker:

The Independent Film Festival is proud to promote the most innovative, groundbreaking independent cinema in the world. We believe in our commitment …

Interview with the Director of "Paperman"

February 15, 2013 | Cinema & New Media Arts

DP/30 speaks with John Kars, the director of the Academy Award-nominated animated short, Paperman, which premiered in front of Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph.

Shot in Burbank, February 2013 by DP/30.…