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Published by Film at Lincoln Center

NYFF 2017

This Is Us

By Ashley Clark
September 1, 2017
In Mudbound, an ambitious epic about racial realities in the American South during the World war II era, Dee Rees reminds us that we create the times in which we live

Short Take: The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)

By Steven Mears
August 30, 2017
(Director: Noah Baumbach, Country/Distributor: USA, Netflix, Opening: October 13)

Short Take: BPM (Beats Per Minute)

By Nick Davis
August 30, 2017
(Director: Robin Campillo, Country/Distributor: France, The Orchard, Opening: October 20)

Cinema ’67 Revisited: The Exterminating Angel

By Mark Harris
August 2, 2017
Up all night to get lucky: Luis Buñuel’s surrealist yarn about aristocrats unable to leave a room is truly timeless

Interview: Alison Maclean and Kerry Fox

By Shonni Enelow
July 3, 2017
The excruciatingness of it all: the director and a star of The Rehearsal tease out the pleasures and risks of stagecraft and watching it all unfold

Venice Interview: Gastón Solnicki

By Nicolas Rapold
October 5, 2016
Frieze of girls: the Argentine director of Kékszakállú applies intuition and Bluebeard to a study of young women at leisure

Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master

By Kent Jones
September 10, 2012
In The Master, Paul Thomas Anderson tells a big American story about two men who can't see past each other