Festivals

On Making The Wild Pear Tree

October 8, 2018

Alone in the wilderness: the Turkish filmmaker recounts the trip to the country that inspired his film about a restless young intellectual, screening in Film Comment Presents at NYFF

NYFF Interview: Sky Hopinka

By Becca Voelcker

October 5, 2018

Personal journeys: the filmmaker discusses the language of travel and landscape in works like Fainting Spells, screening in the New York Film Festival

The Film Comment Podcast: NYFF Live 2018 Cinema of Experience

By Nicolas Rapold

October 3, 2018

The 56th New York Film Festival features three special Film Comment Talks, the first of which was our latest “Cinema of Experience” roundtable.

NYFF Interview: Christophe Honoré

By David A. Gerstner

September 28, 2018

Recent history: the director of New York Film Festival selection Sorry Angel talks about making the film and portraying love in the 1990s

Festivals: Toronto

By Nick Davis

September 27, 2018

Going supernova: the titles to remember from TIFF, from ANIARA to Vox Lux and beyond

Interview: László Nemes

By Tina Poglajen

September 25, 2018

Eve of destruction: the Oscar-winning director of Son of Saul broaches the underworld and upper crust of prewar Budapest in the audacious Sunset

Festivals: Wavelengths at TIFF

By Nellie Killian

September 24, 2018

Furiously alive: the Toronto festival’s experimental film section featured Roberto Minervini, Helen Wittmann, Jodie Mack, and more to energizing effect

Me Time

By Devika Girish

September 24, 2018

Burning star Steven Yeun finds himself anew on screen

NYFF Interview: Ali Abbasi

By Nicolas Rapold

September 21, 2018

Self-discovery: the Cannes-laureled director crafts a surprising portrait of an unusual customs inspector using fantasy and thriller elements

Intimations of Mortality

By Nicolas Rapold

September 17, 2018

Monrovia, Indiana, Frederick Wiseman’s postcard from the Midwest, detects the lengthening shadows beyond the all-American sunshine