Jordan Cronk

In space and time: the experimental filmmaker on building his own cameras, the politics of light, and cinema’s uneasy standing within the art world

Read an excerpt from a forthcoming interview with the director of Vitalina Varela, one of the most acclaimed films of the year

Romanian puzzler Corneliu Porumboiu delights in deceit with the island crime yarn The Whistlers, screening at NYFF

The director of Synonyms looks within to portray the essence of the outlier

While we're young: Tyler Taormina's surburban-set debut comes on like a slightly surreal teen comedy before segueing into something far stranger 

Dead or alive: the director of Zombi Child on voodoo, the oneiric, and his use of music

I’ll be your mirror: the director and his frequent lead on Tommaso, an auto-fiction set in Rome

Waiting on the day: this year’s festival features work from a promising collection of young directors

Rough necks: the Argentine filmmaker on how the personal and the political inform his new Men of Hard Skin

Avant le déluge: our first overview of this year‘s offerings, including films by the Dardenne Brothers, Lav Diaz, and Pedro Almodóvar

Wheel of fortune: The 1991 Queen of Diamonds, at BAM April 26, proceeds in a deceptively complex, elliptical fashion

Running on empty: No Data Plan frames a three-day train journey as a microcosm of the immigrant experience

With Long Day’s Journey Into Night, in theaters April 12, Bi Gan returns to his hometown through an elaborate romance of dreams and memories

New age: Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Alice Rohrwacher, and VR and its discontents at the Doha Film Institute's industry summit in Qatar

It's relative: the directors of MS Slavic 7 on the use of biography and the strange experience of playing a version of your director on screen

State of transition: this year's highlights point toward a welcome renewal for the venerable festival

"I’m not a filmmaker. I just made a film": new films from José Celestino Campusano, Jang Woojin, and Romina Paula highlight the festival

Not here to make friends: the director of Occidental talks about using the lurid customs of reality television to create new art

Pattern recognition: oh, the places you’ll go with the director of a handmade fabric fantasia on film

Utopia is nowhere: the French filmmaker haunts another location with fragmentary character portraits and spiritual anomie in the air