Published by Film at Lincoln Center

Festivals

Interview: Kantemir Balagov

By Ela Bittencourt
October 7, 2019
Lean times: the director of Beanpole on the use of color and the influence of literature on his NYFF standout

Cracking the Code: Corneliu Porumboiu

By Jordan Cronk
October 7, 2019
Romanian puzzler Corneliu Porumboiu delights in deceit with the island crime yarn The Whistlers, screening at NYFF

Review: Joker

By Phoebe Chen
October 4, 2019
Funny ha ha: Todd Phillips’s provocation has a bungled understanding of its own relation to violence

The Film Comment Podcast: NYFF57 Projections

By Nicolas Rapold
October 4, 2019
Ways of seeing: Ed Halter and Nellie Killian join for a look at NYFF’s experimental program

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

Interview: Minh Quý Trương

By Laura Davis
October 3, 2019
Lost in space: a collage of archival material and improvisatory camerawork, The Tree House articulates a sense of longing from a place of exile

Playlist: NYFF57 Contest

By Clinton Krute
October 3, 2019
In the groove: this year’s selection is also notable for its wealth of music, with films from Scorsese to Sciamma employing pop songs as narrative fulcrums

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

Unquiet Spirits: Atlantics, Vitalina Varela, and Martin Eden

By Imogen Sara Smith
September 30, 2019
On three strikingly beautiful films at NYFF57: Mati Diop’s Atlantics, Pedro Costa’s Vitalina Varela, and Pietro Marcello’s Martin Eden

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