Festivals

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

Interview Excerpt: Céline Sciamma

By Amy Taubin

September 27, 2019

Read an excerpt from an forthcoming interview with the director of Portrait of a Lady on Fire, one of the most anticipated films of the year