NYFF

Secrets and Lies

October 18, 2021

Birth of tragedy: the search for truth, both personal and historical, is the driving force of Parallel Mothers, Pedro Almodóvar’s most openly political film to date

Interview: Joachim Trier

By Mark Asch

October 18, 2021

Common people: the Norwegian director discusses his latest, a shape-shifting romantic comedy of self-realization, The Worst Person in the World

Waking Life

By Imogen Sara Smith

October 18, 2021

Time’s arrow: in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s new Memoria, the past is alien, layered with trauma and the beauty of the unknowable

Of Gods and Men

By Molly Haskell

October 12, 2021

Saddle sore: Jane Campion’s latest is lacking in the richly personal, idiosyncratic feminism of her great early films

Interview: Alexandre Koberidze

By Jessica Kiang

October 12, 2021

In dreams: the Georgian director discusses the method behind the delicate balance of romance, folklore, and social critique in his What Do We See When We Look At The Sky?

Interview: Julia Ducournau

By Isabel Sandoval

October 12, 2021

Motorhead: the director of Titane on the film’s surprising use of humor, her abiding interest in “opening the skin,” and much more

Are You Talking to Me?

By Adam Nayman

October 12, 2021

I’m looking through you: The common denominator in Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car and Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy is an acceptance of transience in all things

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

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

The First New York Film Festival

By Gordon Hitchens

April 23, 2019

Gordon Hitchens, Film Comment's founding editor, reports on the first New York Film Festival