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Interview: Feras Fayyad

By Ela Bittencourt
October 15, 2019
In the dark: The Cave tells the story of an extraordinary woman doctor caring for a besieged community in southwestern Syria

Close Reading: Bacurau

By A.G. Sims
October 14, 2019
In the real world: with Bacurau, Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles imagine a lawless future for Brazil

News to Me: Cronenberg, Parasite fever, and farewell to Robert Forster

By James Wham
October 14, 2019
Didn’t I (blow your mind this time): Susan Sontag, Ulrich Köhler, and the return of MoMA

Deep Focus: Gemini Man

By Michael Sragow
October 11, 2019
My own worst enemy: in Ang Lee’s sci-fi fiasco, Will Smith plays a glorified hit man staring down the barrel of a callow version of himself

The Film Comment Podcast: NYFF57 Festival Wrap

By Nicolas Rapold
October 11, 2019
The friends we made: our panel of critics look back at the festival that was

Present Tense: Brett Hanover’s Rukus

By Sheila O'Malley
October 10, 2019
Fuzzy memory: an interview with the director of Rukus, a highly personal docu-fiction hybrid of significant scope and emotional power

Film of the Week: In My Room

By Jonathan Romney
October 10, 2019
Last man standing: Ulrich Köhler’s latest is an unusually low-key vision of the end of the world—or at least, the end of someone’s world

Saturday Fiction and Sibyl

By Michelle Chow
October 9, 2019
The play’s the thing: our latest NYFF Critics Academy dispatch draws out similarities in the self-reflexive approaches of films from Lou Ye and Justine Triet

Queer & Now & Then: 1987

By Michael Koresky
October 9, 2019
What’s your pleasure? Clive Barker’s Hellraiser couples S&M with a heavy dose of homoeroticism that makes it an unapologetic violation of heteronormative standards

The Film Comment Podcast: NYFF57 Filmmakers Chat

By Nicolas Rapold
October 9, 2019
Come together: Justine Triet, Pietro Marcello, Corneliu Porumboiu, Akosua Adoma Owusu, and Luise Donschen join for our annual roundtable discussion