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‘French Exit’: With No F*cks To Give, Michelle Pfeiffer Sets An Icy World Of Privilege Ablaze [NYFF Review]

October 11, 2020 8:55 am

A Tragedy of Manners. This is how bestselling author Patrick DeWitt’s satirical novel “French Exit” was billed upon its publishing in 2018. That description is also spot-on for this elegant, droll, and heartbr...

John Boyega, Small Axe, Red White And Blue

‘Red, White And Blue’: John Boyega Is Superb In Steve McQueen’s Challenging, And Unafraid ‘Small Axe’ Film [NYFF Review]

Robert Daniels

October 3, 2020 8:02 pm

Features, Festivals, News, Reviews

One of the great joys of the New York Film Festival has been watching Steve McQueen’s new film anthology “Small Axe.” Composed of five works set between the late-'60s and early-'80s, the two recently screened ...

‘Night Of The Kings’ Is A Striking Tribute To The Power Of Storytelling Set In An Ivorian Prison [NYFF Review]

Carlos Aguilar

September 27, 2020 10:28 am

Festivals, News, Reviews

Philippe Lacôte understands the cyclical nature of human conflict and how invaluable the stories people tell about their collective past are. In the remarkable “Night Of The Kings,” the Ivorian director’s foll...

NYFF 2020 Trailer Teases Looks At Steve McQueen’s ‘Small Axe,’ Sofia Coppola’s ‘On The Rocks’ & More

Rodrigo Perez

September 11, 2020 5:36 pm

News, Trailers

Yep, festival season is a little weird this year, but if the currently-ongoing Venice Film Festival and just-started Toronto International Film Festival are any indication, the 58th New York Film Festival is g...

Chloé Zhao’s Next Film ‘Nomadland’ To Premiere Simultaneously At TIFF And Venice & Play NYFF As Centerpiece Film

Kambole Campbell

July 27, 2020 9:42 am

Festivals, News

Following her brilliant and tender breakout feature “The Rider,” Chloé Zhao’s next move has been hotly anticipated - making moves at Marvel Studios as well as working on her followup film, “Nomadland,” starrin...

‘Martin Eden’: Pietro Marcello’s Latest Is Luminous Cinema & Luca Marinelli Is A Star In The Making [NYFF Review]

Luke Hicks

October 10, 2019 4:38 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

“Martin Eden” opens with a revelation: “So, the world is stronger than me.” The impetus behind the whispered truth slowly comes into focus as the story unfolds, cynicism and celebrity impounding hope and humili...

‘I Was At Home, But…”: Angela Schanelec’s Enigmatic Domestic Portrait [NYFF Review]

Joe Blessing

October 9, 2019 1:51 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

Filmmaker Angela Schanelec is an acquired taste. Her latest, “I Was At Home, But…” sees her continue to hone her highly unique, emotionally oblique, and gently radical style, which frustrates some with its lack...

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...

‘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 ...

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