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Yonca Talu

Review: Ismael’s Ghosts

By Yonca Talu
March 5, 2018
(Arnaud Desplechin, France, Magnolia Pictures, Opening March 23)

Berlin Interview: Alexey German Jr.

By Yonca Talu
February 27, 2018
Leningrad bebop: the Russian filmmaker forges his own darkly comic vision of ’70s Soviet society in Dovlatov

Film Comment Selects: Nico Papatakis

By Yonca Talu
February 21, 2018
Radical methods: an excerpt from the September/October feature about the political filmmaker

Short Take: Happy End

By Yonca Talu
January 3, 2018
(Michael Haneke, France/Austria/Germany, Sony Pictures Classics, Opened December 22)

Festivals: Lumière 2017

By Yonca Talu
December 29, 2017
Step into the light: our correspondent catches up with the cinephile playgrounds of the Lumière festival in Lyon

Review: Last Men in Aleppo

By Yonca Talu
December 18, 2017
Syrian filmmaker Firas Fayyad’s harrowing Sundance-awarded documentary immerses the viewer in the everyday horrors of wartime

Short Take: Glory

By Yonca Talu
March 3, 2017
(Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov, Bulgaria/Greece, Film Movement, Opens April 12)

The Long Goodbye

By Yonca Talu
March 3, 2017
An interview with Jean-Pierre Léaud

Interview: Slawomir Idziak

By Yonca Talu
January 27, 2017
Working relationships: the cinematographer who shot The Double Life of Véronique and Black Hawk Down discusses his collaborations with Kieślowski, Ridley Scott, and more

Interview: Anthony Dod Mantle

By Yonca Talu
January 20, 2017
Quick study: a cinematographer who’s worked with Lars von Trier, Danny Boyle, and Oliver Stone describes capturing the kinetic on film

Interview: Wolfgang Thaler

By Yonca Talu
January 13, 2017
It's (a) living: the man who shot Theeb, Workingman's Death, and Seidl's Paradise trilogy discusses nonverbal communication on-set and beekeeping

Interview: Vittorio Storaro

By Yonca Talu
January 6, 2017
Remain in light: the cinematographer of Apocalypse Now, The Last Emperor, and Café Society discusses the seventh art, and the other six, too

Review: The Son of Joseph

By Yonca Talu
January 3, 2017
(Eugène Green, France/Belgium, Kino Lorber Opens January 13)

Interview: Gianfranco Rosi

By Yonca Talu
October 24, 2016
S.O.S.: the director of Fire at Sea connects his subtle humanitarian plea with the work of Giacometti and Adorno

NYFF: The Aquarius Letters

By Yonca Talu
October 11, 2016
Fierce art: the director of Aquarius discusses the film's personal resonance, its controversial release, and the political situation in Brazil

Review: Aquarius

By Yonca Talu
October 6, 2016
(Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil/France, Opening October 21)

Short Takes: The Apostate

By Yonca Talu
September 6, 2016
(Federico Veiroj, Spain/France/Uruguay, Opening September 9)

Cannes Interview: Alice Winocour

By Yonca Talu
August 8, 2016
The French director of Disorder talks about her nervewracking, ambient thriller starring Matthias Schoenaerts as a veteran turned bodyguard

Short Takes: Summertime

By Yonca Talu
July 5, 2016
(Catherine Corsini, France/Belgium, 2015)

Interview: Thomas Bidegain & Finnegan Oldfield

By Yonca Talu
June 24, 2016
Where the deer and the jihadi roam: the director and a star of Les Cowboys discuss their French neo-Western