Ryan Brown

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Ryan Brown is a filmmaker and freelance writer living in Brooklyn, NY. He has an MFA in Media Arts from City College, CUNY. His short films GATE OF HEAVEN and DAUGHTER OF HOPE can be viewed here: vimeo.com/user1360852. With Antonio Tibaldi, he co-wrote the screenplay 'The Oldest Man Alive,' which was selected for the "Emerging Narrative" section of IFP's 2012 Independent Film Week. Top Films From Contemporary Film Auteurs: Almodóvar (Live Flesh), Assayas (Cold Water), Bellochio (Fists in the Pocket), Breillat (Fat Girl), Coen Bros. (Burn After Reading), Demme (Something Wild), Denis (Friday Night), Herzog (The Wild Blue Yonder), Leigh (Another Year), Skolimowski (Four Nights with Anna), Zulawski (She-Shaman)

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Sleeping Sickness | Review

A German aid doctor in Africa considers going native in Kohler’s unpredictable drama

Review: 4:44 Last Day On Earth

"The countdown to the apocalypse becomes a celebratory wake in Abel Ferrara’s transcendent 4:44: Last Day on Earth. Eschewing sci-fi escapism for a raw and intimate portrait of a New York artist couple (Willem Dafoe, and Ferrara’s real-life redhead girlfriend, Shanyn Leigh) riding out the end of times -- guaranteed to hit at 4:44AM-- in their Lower East Side apartment, Ferrara’s personal film is likely to flummox filmgoers and critics inured to the cheap thrills of CGI bombast and fashionably empty nihilism."

4:44 Last Day On Earth | Review

Forget the hype: Ferrara’s end-of-the-world reverie puts other apocalypse movies to shame

Review: Policeman

"Lapid is far from taking sides. He is warily critical of both the cops’ and the radicals’ fetish for violence, guns, and detached, narcissistic ideologies. But there is simply no denying the exhilarating spirit of reckless revolt that suffuses the movie’s second half."

Policeman | Review

Israeli vs. Israeli terrorist drama is a timely, thrilling provocation

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2026 Berlin International Film Festival – Checklist of Our Coverage

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