Podcast

Facetime: the star of Jafar Panahi’s latest meta-fictional masterwork discusses how her own experience of exile informed her character

Surgical theater: Alissa Wilkinson, Bilge Ebiri, and Inney Prakash join our panel to countdown (and debate) our top films of the year

Galaxy brains: valiant critics Jessica Kiang and Nathan Lee join to battle over the relative merits and demerits of the much-buzzed-about Cate Blanchett vehicle TÁR

Against interpretation: filmmaker Radu Jude and critic Giovanni Marchini Camia join to discuss the continuing significance of the films and writing of Pier Paolo Pasolini

Police stories: scholar Pooja Rangan and filmmaker Brett Story join to discuss “Watch the Cops: Policing New York in the Movies,” their recent series at the Brooklyn Academy of Music

Boo-ster shots: Kelli Weston and Steven Mears join to discuss a pair of just-out-of-season movies—slasher flick Alice, Sweet Alice and classic ghost story The Innocents

Eyes on the prize: our critics panel digs into the complexities of list-making, and how best-of lists influence the canonization of documentary films

Group chat: Phoebe Chen, Molly Haskell, and Kelli Weston join to discuss highlights and lowlights from the festival that was, including TÁR, Saint Omer, Master Gardener and more

Animal spirits: the 84-year-old filmmaker discusses the youthful verve and visual panache of his new, donkey-starring EO

Distancing effects: NYFF filmmakers Laura Poitras, Elvis Mitchell, and Tiffany Sia join for a special live talk on the ways in which critique allows us to imagine and work toward alternative and better realities