
Never a dull moment in New York. Another thrill to my homecoming is Scott Foundas’ review of A TIME TO STIR (pictured) in the new issue of the Village Voice. I programmed this four-hour epic documentary (still a work-in-progress) about the 1968 Columbia University student strike for the last day of the Toronto International Film Festival. Foundas writes that it was “the most vital movie I ended up seeing” at the festival. He wasn’t the only one. Time Out Chicago critic Ben Kenigsberg calls it one of “the more compelling documentaries” at TIFF.
The film is directed by Paul Cronin whose name may be familiar to STF loyalists from FILM AS A SUBVERSIVE ART shown in our Winter 08 season. Cronin is now based full time in New York, having returned to graduate school at Columbia. We hope to see him in the STF audience this season.