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New York Film Festival 2024

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The Film Comment Podcast: The Films of Christopher Harris

In a silent way: Christopher Harris joins to discuss the origins of his filmmaking in his youthful ambition to be musician, his interest in stillness and silence as structuring concepts, and why his work is always as fun as it is challenging and erudite
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Love and Death: TIFF 2024

Candid camera: this year's festival offered an array of welcome surprises, including highlights like Mike Leigh's Hard Truths, Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, Nicolás Pereda Lázaro at Night, and more
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Interview: Jia Zhangke on Caught by the Tides

By Jordan Cronk
Time passes slowly: the Chinese filmmaker discusses his latest, which makes a collage out of documentary-style footage shot during the making of his films over the last twenty years

The Film Comment Podcast: Collective Protagonists

Bread and roses: the two directorial pairs behind Northern Lights (1978) and Union (2024) discuss the practical, formal, and political considerations of making films about people power

Interview: Alain Guiraudie on Misericordia

By Giovanni Marchini Camia
Midnight confessions: the novelist and filmmaker discusses his new noir comedy, which follows a young man who returns to his hometown in the French countryside and finds himself embroiled in an unpredictable (and increasingly dangerous) game of lust

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Interviews

Interview: Mike Leigh on Hard Truths

By Caitlín Doherty
Answering the call: the acclaimed British filmmaker speaks about his latest feature, his first in six years, which reunites him with Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Features

Scratching the Surface

By Michael Blair
Close reading: Matías Piñeiro’s You Burn Me and Jem Cohen's Little, Big, and Far are both richly attuned to the surfaces of things

Inspired

Inspired: Paul Schrader on Oh, Canada

By Jordan Cronk
Up north: the master filmmaker discusses how a lingering case of COVID-19 and a novel by his late friend gave rise to his newest feature

Features

It Takes a Village

By Adam Nayman
Town limits: Athina Rachel Tsangari's Harvest and Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl both explore the tender, vexing paradoxes of home

Interviews

Interview: RaMell Ross on Nickel Boys

By Devika Girish
Watch the stars: the photographer and filmmaker discusses his new adaptation of Colson Whitehead's novel, the film’s compelling use of first-person point of view, and his interest in capturing what he calls “adjacent images”