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Amy Taubin

Singular Scenes of the Year

By Amy Taubin
December 20, 2024
Love less: two of the best scenes of 2024—from Payal Kapadia‘s All We Imagine as Light and Luca Guadagnino’s Queer–depict the push and pull of desire in real time

Interview: Mitra Farahani on Jean-Luc Godard’s Last Film(s)

By Amy Taubin
May 28, 2024
Time out of mind: the Iranian filmmaker and producer discusses her work with the late French-Swiss maverick, including her documentary See You Friday, Robinson as well as Godard's final two shorts, which premiered at this year's Cannes

Regarding Mothers

By Amy Taubin
May 2, 2022
Little women: Céline Sciamma's Petite Maman is an elliptical, dreamlike fable about the intergenerational intimacies of women

Infinite Spirit: Michael Snow

By Amy Taubin
May 8, 2020
One of cinema’s primary colors, filmmaker Michael Snow remembers a rambunctious screening of a foundational work in New York

A New Old Master

By Amy Taubin
May 8, 2020
Two new box sets finally bring to light the remarkable work of early women filmmakers

Interview: Garrett Bradley

By Amy Taubin
January 31, 2020
One day at a time: the filmmaker on her standout Sundance doc Time, which follows a woman’s tireless efforts to get her husband released from prison

Interview: Céline Sciamma

By Amy Taubin
December 4, 2019
Here’s looking at you: the director of Portrait of a Lady on Fire on the path of love and restoring lost histories

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 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

Interview: Kirill Mikhanovsky and Alice Austen

By Amy Taubin
September 16, 2019
Risky business: the director and screenwriter behind Give Me Liberty on the difficult process of bringing their vision to the screen

The Highest Stakes

By Amy Taubin
July 1, 2019
Matters of love and war fueled a beguiling and trenchant selection this year at Cannes

Ken Jacobs’s The Sky Socialist

By Amy Taubin
June 14, 2019
The man upstairs: after roughly 55 years, the filmmaker has completed work on his legendary ode to Ferry Street

Cannes Interview: Jim Jarmusch

By Amy Taubin
May 14, 2019
Eternal return: the director of Cannes-opener The Dead Don’t Die on his postmodern zombie flick

Dispatch: 2019 Tribeca Film Festival

By Amy Taubin
May 10, 2019
High spirits: a handful of exciting documentaries enlivened this year‘s festival

The Truth Hurts

By Amy Taubin
March 1, 2019
Read Taubin's take on Honeyland, screening this week at New Directors/New Films, among other festival standouts

Review: Greta

By Amy Taubin
February 28, 2019
Something wicked: a contemporary fairy tale draws out the darkness of a twisted mother/daughter bond

Sundance Dispatch: Beats and The Vast of Night

By Amy Taubin
January 30, 2019
Ecstasy and extraterrestrials: Slamdance surprises with a coming-of-age story and an alien invasion

Interview: Anna Zamecka

By Amy Taubin
January 5, 2019
Burden of responsibility: the Oscar-shortlisted Polish filmmaker talks about capturing the complex family dynamics for a girl thrust into the role of caretaker

The Hand of Time

By Amy Taubin
January 2, 2019
Jean-Luc Godard’s The Image Book has arrived in all its compendious, homemade splendor. Right-hand man Fabrice Aragno explains how it came to be

Flow Through Me

By Amy Taubin
November 1, 2018
Willem Dafoe on his Oscar-nominated performance as Vincent Van Gogh in At Eternity’s Gate