Festivals

Decline and fall: the French discusses her Palme d’Or–winning feature, which uses courtroom-drama tropes to fashion a dark, witty, and tender dissection of the complexities of romantic and family life

Sweet nothings: all-star critics Molly Haskell, Adam Nayman, and Kelli Weston join for a Film Comment Live talk to discuss and debate all the highlights of the festival that was

Love in the afternoon: the French filmmaker discusses her return to cinema, the productive tension between realism and expressionism, the art of the sex scene, and much more

Purple haze: highlights of the NYFF61 Currents shorts programs make a case for a cinema that turns minimalism and economy into a field for vibrant, unfettered experimentation

Don’t lie to me: filmmakers Rosine Mbakam, Kleber Mendonça Filho, and Frederick Wiseman join to discuss the slippery nature of truth on screen

Office culture: director Rodrigo Moreno discusses his NYFF61 standout, a matryoshka doll of a movie, crackling with dry humor, about the drudgery of office work

Be like water: Víctor Erice’s Close Your Eyes and Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Pictures of Ghosts are love letters to cinema that take very different approaches

Work out: representatives of the unions behind the writers’ and actors’ strikes join, along with critic Alissa Wilkinson, to discuss these labor actions

Earth and sky: the director and cinematographer behind the NYFF61 standout discuss their poetic, evocative portrait of a young woman whose story is inextricably linked to a sense of community and place

Future days: two of the most anticipated films from this year's edition, Bertrand Bonello’s The Beast and Harmony Korine’s AGGRO DR1FT, share a desire to provoke