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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
Interview: Martin Scorsese
By
Harlan Jacobson
August 20, 2019
In this 1988 interview, the director provides an exegesis of his passion project,
The Last Temptation of Christ
Lost in America: Richard Linklater
By
Gavin Smith
August 13, 2019
Revisit two sides of the American nightmare in this 2006 interview with the director of the new
Where’d You Go, Bernadette
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