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Features

Women Directors: 150 Filmographies

By Richard Henshaw
December 3, 2019
Read a 1972 essay on women filmmakers, both obscure and well-known, along with detailed filmographies of major directors

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