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Max Nelson

NYFF Diary #3: Inherent Vice

By Max Nelson
October 7, 2014
Paul Thomas Anderson's adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's novel finds the sadness hiding behind the clouds of pot smoke—but doesn't dwell on it

NYFF Diary #2: People Will Talk

By Max Nelson
October 2, 2014
Theory and practice: Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s idealized tale about the medical profession, which screens as part of NYFF's retrospective of his films

NYFF Diary #1: The Princess of France

By Max Nelson
September 30, 2014
Teasing out the Shakespearean language and intrigues in Argentine director Matías Piñeiro’s latest feature

Book Review: The Films in My Life

By Max Nelson
September 23, 2014
In conjunction with a new offer, a look back at Truffaut’s self-portrait through criticism

Review: Listen Up Philip

By Max Nelson
September 8, 2014
(Alex Ross Perry, U.S., 2014)

Strange Lands: International Sci-Fi (Part One)

By Max Nelson
August 21, 2014
The outer limits: in Eastern bloc sci-fi, the extremities of 20th-century human experience gave birth to brave new worlds on film

A Life Less Ordinary: The Films of Joaquim Pinto

By Max Nelson
August 8, 2014
Interpreter of maladies: the Portuguese director of What Now? Remind Me finds a world of expression in nature, human and otherwise

Review: A Summer’s Tale

By Max Nelson
June 20, 2014
Have you seen the new Rohmer? A belated U.S. theatrical run for one of his seasonal tales

Review: Burning Bush

By Max Nelson
June 9, 2014
Agnieszka Holland's miniseries about a breathtaking self-sacrifice during the Prague Spring takes to the big screen with aplomb

Fassbinder Adapts: Effi Briest

By Max Nelson
May 30, 2014
A close look at the (anti?)romantic novel that inspired the filmmaker and his creative decisions in bringing it to the screen

Art of the Real: What Happens

By Max Nelson
April 14, 2014
An overview of the upcoming series at The Film Society of Lincoln Center

Interview: Bertrand Tavernier

By Max Nelson
March 13, 2014
Fast talk: Read this 2014 conversation with the brilliant filmmaker and consummate critic, who passed away on March 25

Christian Petzold’s “Ghosts” trilogy

By Max Nelson
February 25, 2014
Money talks: German reunification and its discontents

Film Comment Selects: From the Source

By Max Nelson
February 22, 2014
A guided tour to this year's remaining offerings by the magazine's writers and editors

Rep Diary: Scorsese’s Masterpieces of Polish Cinema

By Max Nelson
February 4, 2014
The Film Society of Lincoln Center presents restored works by Wajda, Kieslowski, Borowczyk, Has, Skolimowski, and more

Review: The Wolf of Wall Street

By Max Nelson
December 17, 2013
The party's not over: Martin Scorsese's latest bumptious protagonist is as bullish as the market

Critical Dialogue: Inside Llewyn Davis

By Max Nelson
December 13, 2013
Odysseus at the Gaslight Café: the Coen Brothers' latest tale of timeless woe

In Dreams: The Wind Rises

By Max Nelson
December 12, 2013
In his swan song, the great Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki turns to reality and contemplates the power of imagination

Modern Love: Her

By Max Nelson
December 12, 2013
Spike Jonze re-imagines our everlasting longing for intimacy in an overconnected world

Review: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

By Max Nelson
December 12, 2013
Twisty trails towards destiny, and even twistier syntax: the second Hobbit movie is everything you'd expect it to be