Tag: New York Film Festival

Three years ago, I had a fun zoom chat with Jordan Firstman about his role in Sebastián Silva's wacky, meta-cine-mindfuck, ...

Watching David Greaves’ Once Upon a Time in Harlem I felt overwhelmed, in the best sense, by such an extraordinary ...

James Gray is a master at creating bleak, anxiety-inducing cinematic poems. His work is not exactly realistic, yet gritty and ...

I’ll be honest, I wasn’t very excited about sitting down to a 196-minute film. I usually don’t mind long running ...

Introducing her absorbing feature debut, La Gradiva, at this year’s New York Film Festival, cinematographer-turned-writer/director Marine Atlan quoted the great ...

With Fatherland, Polish filmmaker Paweł Pawlikowski (Ida, Cold War) fashions a sorrowful, minimalist, yet wholly hypnotic look at a devastated ...

Two very different but truly nuanced films screening at this year’s New York Film Festival are taking on many themes, ...

I admit I am a sucker for Almodóvar. I don’t think I have ever not, at least, liked an Almodóvar ...

As dark comedies with a social commentary edge go, Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice is quite satisfying. It’s a clever, ...

You can admire the ambition, style and scope of a film as well as the themes it is addressing, without ...