Total Grunge: Love and Depression Glow in Beautiful ‘How to Save a Dead Friend’

By Gregory Crofton Marusya Syroechkovskaya first picked up a camera as a teen to capture her disaffected life in Butovo, Russia, just south of Moscow. As a 16-year-old she wanted to die on a daily basis. She smoked Pall Malls…

Poet and People Connector Rose Styron Savors Each Summer on Martha’s Vineyard

By Gregory Crofton Rose Styron has a natural elegance about her. While she describes herself as maybe a little “pollyannaish,” others just call it being “In the Company of Rose.” That’s the name of a new documentary on her life…

DOC NYC: ‘LAST FLIGHT HOME’ Brings the Right to Die Issue into Your Living Room

By Gregory Crofton Eli Timoner was a successful man in charge of his life. He also cared about the people around him and didn’t dodge difficult fights, even if they were political in nature. But then something bad and unexpected…

DOC NYC: This Vermont College was the Place to Be for Young American Writers in the 1980s

THE END OF THE WORLD By Gregory Crofton Former Vanity Fair writer Matt Tyrnauer’s (Studio 54, Where’s My Roy Cohn?) new doc “The End of the World” examines what made Bennington College a very liberal and an especially good place…

LOAN WOLVES: One Man Gets to the Bottom of the $2 Trillion Student Loan Crisis

By Gregory Crofton Why would “Loan Wolves” director Blake Zeff dare take on the story of our more than 20-year nearly $2 trillion dollar student loan crisis? Zeff, a former politics editor for Salon, probably took it on because he…

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