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
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.
How to save a theater: members of the La Clef Revival collective share key insights from their successful campaign to reopen their beloved Parisian cinema
Collective horizons: a new series at Anthology Film Archives showcases the multifaceted work of Palestinian filmmakers and sisters Emily and Annemarie Jacir
Radical specters: the cinema has found a rich repository of inspiration, images, and ideas in the life and work of the anti-colonial writer and revolutionary
Screen time: incarcerated writer Sara Kielly offers a snapshot of a weekend’s worth of movie-watching at New York State’s Bedford Hills Correctional Facility
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