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1975 NYFF Preview: Grey Gardens

By Charles Michener
October 5, 2015
From the September/October 1975 issue: some thoughts on Albert and David Maysles’s family affair, in anticipation of its New York Film Festival premiere

1974 NYFF Preview: The Phantom of Liberty

By Richard Roud
October 2, 2015
From the September/October 1974 issue: advance praise for Luis Buñuel's visceral and surreal film, then titled The Spectre of Liberty

Guilty Pleasures: Brian De Palma

By Brian De Palma
September 24, 2015
From the May/June 1987 issue, the director of Carrie and Dressed to Kill some of his favorite shameful cinematic indulgences

The Infernal, Ecstatic Desire Machine of Guy Maddin

By Jonathan Romney
September 3, 2015
Too much is just right in The Forbidden Room, the movie-mad filmmaker’s latest feat of phantasmagorical cinema

Blast from the Past

By Nick Pinkerton
September 3, 2015
George Eastman House’s new annual celebration keeps a venerable but vibrant medium alive

Review: Freeheld

By Andrew Chan
September 3, 2015
(Peter Sollett, U.S., 2015)

Short Takes: Pawn Sacrifice

By Steven Mears
September 3, 2015
(Edward Zwick, U.S., 2014)

Controlling Chaos

By José Teodoro
September 3, 2015
With Sicario, Quebecois director Denis Villeneuve ups the ante on his tales of terror and alienation

Review: Queen of Earth

By Eric Hynes
September 3, 2015
(Alex Ross Perry, U.S., 2015)

Review: Time Out of Mind

By Kristin M. Jones
September 3, 2015
(Oren Moverman, U.S., 2014)