NYFF 2019 Archives - The Playlist

‘Varda By Agnes’: A Charming Reflection On Life And Art [NYFF Review]

October 10, 2019 10:39 am

Agnes Varda sadly passed away earlier this year at age 90, and this year’s New York Festival is not only dedicated to her but includes one of her films in the main slate. “Varda By Agnes” represents something f...

Noah Baumbach And The ‘Marriage Story’ Cast On Collaboration, Singing Sondheim, And Making An Unlikely Love Story [NYFF]

Jason Bailey

October 5, 2019 10:28 am

Features, Festivals, News

Noah Baumbach’s “Marriage Story” is one of the most emotionally wrenching movies of the year—or, frankly, any recent year. So it comes as something of a shock to hear that when Baumbach conceptualized what our ...

‘Synonyms’: Nadav Lapid Makes A Sensational Statement About Identity & Nationality With Furious & Chaotic Energy [NYFF Review]

Luke Hicks

October 4, 2019 2:32 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews, Trailers

In his third feature, “Synonyms,” Israeli writer-director Nadav Lapid proves he has a fascination with people who take things too far, whether extremists, romantics, or some inextricable mesh of the two. His fi...

‘Fire Will Come’: Oliver Laxe’s Latest Is A Mesmerizing Meditation On Man And Nature [NYFF Review]

Joe Blessing

October 4, 2019 11:52 am

Festivals, News, Reviews

Oliver Laxe’s new film “Fire Will Come” has a fitting and powerful title. It’s both an immutable truth in certain regions and a portent of things to come, depending on the speaker it could read as wisdom or a t...

Pedro Almodóvar Connects Childhood Experiences With Career Inspirations In 50-Minute NYFF Conversation

Alex David Lynch

October 3, 2019 3:02 pm

Festivals, News, Video

As Spain’s Pedro Almodóvar continues making the festival circuit rounds for his new film “Dolor y Gloria” – “Pain & Glory” – he spent an evening at the New York Film Festival with Kent Jones, the festival’s...

‘Zombi Child’: Bertrand Bonello Stylishly Unearths The Colonialist Tensions Of The Zombie Mythos [NYFF Review]

Joe Blessing

October 2, 2019 1:09 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

Bertrand Bonello’s most famous film, “House of Tolerance,” showed his affinity for collapsing the supposed distance between the past and present, proving to his audience we haven’t changed as much as we’d like ...

Martin Scorsese Talks ‘Hereditary,’ Joanna Hogg’s ‘Archipelago’ & More In 40-Minute NYFF Talk

Charles Barfield

October 1, 2019 3:25 pm

Festivals, News, Video

Every year, at the New York Film Festival, the event’s director Kent Jones sits down with a filmmaker, for the On Cinema conversation, to discuss the important movies that influence them. And this year, Jones h...

‘Free Time’ Paints A Beautiful Portrait Of Youth, Decay, And Solitude In New York City [NYFF Review]

Jonathan Christian

October 1, 2019 2:29 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

If Manfred Kirchheimer’s latest documentary “Free Time” could summarize itself into a single statement, it would be that there is power in silence. Not a single word of dialogue is spoken in “Free Time,” and ye...

‘The Irishman’: Martin Scorsese Crafts A New Gangster Epic, With A Deeper Sense Of Soul & Morality [NYFF Review]

Joe Blessing

September 27, 2019 8:00 pm

Features, Festivals, News, Reviews

Perhaps no director better portrays the passage of time than Martin Scorsese, who has set films in five different centuries and usually tells stories that span decades, not days. So when his latest film, “The ...

‘The Irishman’ First Reactions Are Here As Scorsese’s Latest Is Hailed As “Terrific” & “A Masterwork”

Charles Barfield

September 27, 2019 12:52 pm

News

It happened, people! Martin Scorsese’s long-awaited crime film “The Irishman” has finally been seen by real people at the New York Film Festival. And as you might expect, even though reviews won’t hit until lat...

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