Features

Subcontinental Divide: Ritwik Ghatak

By Jacob Levich

November 5, 2019

Revisit this 1988 essay on the undiscovered art of Indian cinema’s maverick, whose films are currently screening at Film at Lincoln Center

Death Be Not Proud

By Nicolas Rapold

November 1, 2019

The ending of life is all in a day's work for Frank Sheeran, the loyal mob soldier of Martin Scorsese's The Irishman

Life’s Work

By Devika Girish

November 1, 2019

Greta Gerwig’s energetic tour-de-force adaptation of Little Women frames the aspirations of Jo and her sisters as urgent matters of personal independence

A House Divided

By Amy Taubin

October 3, 2019

Bong Joon-ho’s tour de force Parasite, a highlight of NYFF57, is part twisty social thriller, part heart-stopping tragicomedy

Elia Kazan’s America

By Estelle Changas

October 1, 2019

In this 1972 essay, Changas explores the director’s body of work and commercial decline. America America screens at the NYFF on October 2

Matters of Life and Death: Nadav Lapid

By Jordan Cronk

September 30, 2019

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

Willing Sinner: Pedro Almodóvar

By Marcia Pally

September 17, 2019

With the autobiographical Pain and Glory on the horizon, revisit a 1988 interview with the Spanish auteur

Of Human Bondage

By Olaf Möller

September 5, 2019

Though known for science fiction, Piotr Szulkin increasingly described the way we live now and the persistence of the powers that be

What a Fool Believes

By Nicolas Rapold

September 3, 2019

Nobody wins in Noah Baumbach’s fraught and funny Marriage Story, a precise chronicle of a split that cuts deep

Lost and Found

By Michael Koresky

September 3, 2019

Pedro Almodóvar taps into both the anguish and the eroticism of memory in Pain and Glory, his most personal film yet