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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

Devil’s Playground: Albert Serra

By Manu Yáñez Murillo
April 15, 2020
In Serra’s explicitly imagined Liberté, an 18th-century cruising ground hosts fickle and fearsome games of desire

The Buck Stops Here: Tracy Letts

By Steven Mears
November 15, 2019
The actor adds to a nuanced gallery of irascible authority figures in Ford v Ferrari and Little Women

Cracking the Code: Corneliu Porumboiu

By Jordan Cronk
October 7, 2019
Romanian puzzler Corneliu Porumboiu delights in deceit with the island crime yarn The Whistlers, screening at NYFF

Interview: Diao Yinan

By Wang Muyan
September 6, 2019
The director of The Wild Goose Lake philosophizes on the meaning and appeal of crime stories

Directions: New Haunts

By Jonathan Romney
May 1, 2019
Stray Dogs master Tsai Ming-liang pushes into the virtual realm and the great beyond

Overnight to Distant Cities

By Jordan Cronk
April 9, 2019
With Long Day’s Journey Into Night, in theaters April 12, Bi Gan returns to his hometown through an elaborate romance of dreams and memories

Directions: Claude Lanzmann

By Eric Hynes
November 9, 2018
The late filmmaker resisted reducing the totality of experience, or of cinema

Law of the Land

By Amy Taubin
August 27, 2018
In Ash Is Purest White, in theaters March 15, Jia Zhangke charts how one woman survives and thrives on the criminal margins