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NYFF 2015

NYFF: Martin Scorsese on Film Preservation

By Film Comment
October 27, 2015
The filmmaker describes how he helped change attitudes about the value of celluloid

Interview: Corneliu Porumboiu

By Dan Sullivan
October 19, 2015
Not in my backyard: the Romanian director of The Treasure talks about precisely fashioning a deadpan comedy that takes the long way home

Film of the Week: Heart of a Dog

By Jonathan Romney
October 16, 2015
Laurie Anderson's heartfelt film breaks down the monumental concepts of death, grief, and memory through storytelling

Deep Focus: Bridge of Spies

By Michael Sragow
October 14, 2015
Father knows best: Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg bring a little too much sentiment to this espionage (and civil liberties) thriller

Interview: Laurie Anderson

By Violet Lucca
October 13, 2015
The New York artist retraces her steps and finds the words (and images) in Heart of a Dog

Rep Diary: Rocco and His Brothers

By Scott Eyman
October 13, 2015
Paradise lost: Luchino Visconti's epic of a family's strife in the big city returns to theaters with a 4K restoration

NYFF: Robert Frank on Film

By Max Nelson
October 9, 2015
Living moment to moment: Laura Israel's Don’t Blink - Robert Frank, and Frank’s intimate yet enigmatic films

Deep Focus: Steve Jobs

By Michael Sragow
October 8, 2015
Ghost in the machine: Aaron Sorkin's portrait of Apple's equally enigmatic and unkind co-founder remains in the realm of conventional

NYFF Interview: Athina Rachel Tsangari

By Alejandro Veciana
October 7, 2015
At sea: the New York Film Festival Filmmaker in Residence talks about her wry study of male behavior, Chevalier

NYFF Interview: Michael Almereyda

By Nicholas Elliott
October 6, 2015
Just do it: the director of Experimenter talks about making the life of psychologist Stanley Milgram more than the sum of his research