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NYFF 2016

The Film Comment Podcast: NYFF 2016 Live Roundtable

By Film Comment
October 18, 2016
Friday night lights: five critics and editors discuss the surprises at this year’s festival

NYFF Interview: Bill Morrison

By Daniel Eagan
October 6, 2016
Panning for nitrate: the director of Decasia returns with Dawson City: Frozen Time, a historical X-ray of a Yukon mining town

NYFF Interview: James N. Kienitz Wilkins

By Dan Sullivan
October 6, 2016
Camera-stylo: the director of Indefinite Pitch and 2016 Kazuko Trust honoree discusses his idiosyncratically sourced cinema

Interview: Eduardo Williams

By Ela Bittencourt
October 5, 2016
Expressway to your skull: the director of The Human Surge discusses his cinematic peregrinations and digital fascinations

NYFF: Jacques Becker

By Max Nelson
October 3, 2016
Country life: the director of Casque d'Or and Touchez pas au grisbi gets his due with new restorations and Tavernier's My Journey Through French Cinema

Constitutional Crisis

By Ashley Clark
September 6, 2016
Ava DuVernay previews her comprehensive documentary on the damning history of mass incarceration of blacks in the United States

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

The Infernal, Ecstatic Desire Machine of Guy Maddin

By Jonathan Romney
September 3, 2015
Too much is just right in The Forbidden Room, the movie-mad filmmaker’s latest feat of phantasmagorical cinema

Killer Technique

By Aliza Ma
September 3, 2015
Returning in full force with The Assassin, Hou Hsiao-hsien explains how he summons wondrous beauty and piercing realism from an ancient genre