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Close Reading: Liberté

By Beatrice Loayza
October 16, 2019
Dancers in the dark: a dispatch from the NYFF Critics Academy, on the power of impotence in Albert Serra’s latest

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

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

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

Close Reading: Beanpole

By Nicholas Russell
October 8, 2019
The pain of kindness: our first NYFF Critics Academy dispatch takes a look at Kantemir Balagov’s wartime drama

Present Tense: The Death Scene

By Sheila O'Malley
September 26, 2019
Perchance to dream: the challenges of death scenes are technical as well as existential

Classified: The Lair of the White Worm

By April Wolfe
September 18, 2019
Eat people and have fun: Ken Russell’s film stands apart in genre cinema, where women villains are rarely as cunning as their male counterparts

Present Tense: Matthias Schoenaerts

By Sheila O'Malley
September 12, 2019
The man in me: in the Belgian actor’s hands, characters who could be tough-guy cliches become fully-realized and three-dimensional

Bearing Witness: The Load and Depth Two

By Imogen Sara Smith
August 29, 2019
On the road: two films by Ognjen Glavonic explore the same grim events through documentary and narrative fiction

Queer & Now & Then: 2019

By Michael Koresky
August 28, 2019
Looking back: Lucio Castro’s End of the Century is a temporally unexpected work in which possible pasts and potential futures intermingle to create an unstable now