Features

Two Views of Robert Altman

By Buck Henry

January 14, 2020

The late writer and actor on 1993’s Short Cuts and improvising Altmanian dialogue

House of the Spirits

By Jordan Cronk

January 6, 2020

Pedro Costa returns with the masterful Vitalina Varela—quite possibly the most beautiful film of 2020

The Termite’s Return

By Dennis Lim

January 6, 2020

Reflecting on an unwieldy decade in film, from the ground up

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