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New York Film Festival 2024

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The Film Comment Podcast: The Films of Christopher Harris

In a silent way: Christopher Harris joins to discuss the origins of his filmmaking in his youthful ambition to be musician, his interest in stillness and silence as structuring concepts, and why his work is always as fun as it is challenging and erudite
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Love and Death: TIFF 2024

Candid camera: this year's festival offered an array of welcome surprises, including highlights like Mike Leigh's Hard Truths, Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, Nicolás Pereda Lázaro at Night, and more
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Life’s a Beach

By Rebecca Cleman
Into the limelight: In settings both grim and glamorous, Sean Baker's Anora repeatedly shows how despair is the bedrock for the false-front distractions of American kitsch

The Film Comment Podcast: NYFF62 Festival Report

That's a wrap: critics Bilge Ebiri and Lovia Gyarkye join Film Comment Editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute for a spirited wrap-up analysis of the highlights and lowlights from this year's lineup

Premortem and Postmortem

By Molly Haskell
Body doubles: David Cronenberg's The Shrouds and Pedro Almodóvar's The Room Next Door find both auteurs still playing around the permutations of the flesh, but in a decidedly retrospective mood

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Love’s Labors

By Imogen Sara Smith
The past is present: the 2024 NYFF Revivals section featured films about labor and dreams, including Zeinabu irene Davis’s Compensation, John Hanson and Rob Nilsson’s Northern Lights, and Robert Bresson’s Four Nights of a Dreamer.

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Strange Brews

By Beatrice Loayza
Who shall I say is calling? Two NYFF62 standouts, Philippe Lesage’s Who by Fire and Nicolás Pereda’s Lázaro at Night, masterfully play with the slippage between the real and the fictional

Interviews

Interview: Jia Zhangke on Caught by the Tides

By Jordan Cronk
Time passes slowly: the Chinese filmmaker discusses his latest, which makes a collage out of documentary-style footage shot during the making of his films over the last twenty years

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Interview: Mike Leigh on Hard Truths

By Caitlín Doherty
Answering the call: the acclaimed British filmmaker speaks about his latest feature, his first in six years, which reunites him with Marianne Jean-Baptiste

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Tropical Maladies

By Cici Peng
Calling up the past: Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich's The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire and Mati Diop's Dahomey both probe the tensions of transmitting memory

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Scratching the Surface

By Michael Blair
Close reading: Matías Piñeiro’s You Burn Me and Jem Cohen's Little, Big, and Far are both richly attuned to the surfaces of things