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Features

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

In the American Grain

By Kent Jones
July 25, 2019
On words, images, and why it’s no longer worth our time to be pitting the two against each other