NYFF 2018

Intimations of Mortality

September 17, 2018

Monrovia, Indiana, Frederick Wiseman’s postcard from the Midwest, detects the lengthening shadows beyond the all-American sunshine

Interview: Dominga Sotomayor

By Pedro E. Segura Bernal

September 10, 2018

Family style: the Chilean filmmaker creates a nuanced portrait of a commune by drawing on her own upbringing

The Turning of the Earth

By José Teodoro

September 10, 2018

Alfonso Cuarón’s richly realized Roma surrounds us with the bourgeois Mexico City of his youth, seen through the eyes of another

Intimations of Mortality

By Nicolas Rapold

September 4, 2018

Monrovia, Indiana, Frederick Wiseman’s postcard from the Midwest, detects the lengthening shadows beyond the all-American sunshine

The Paragon of Animals

By Michael Koresky

September 4, 2018

With their multi-part yarn The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, the Coen Brothers mosey on back to the Old West to survey the eternal disappointment that is man

Venice Film of the Week: ROMA

By Jonathan Romney

August 31, 2018

Family portrait: Alfonso Cuarón re-creates the past on a grand yet intimate scale through the eyes of a Mexico City housekeeper

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

Moving Through Time

By Dennis Lim

August 20, 2018

With Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Bi Gan mesmerizes again with a virtuosic noir trip where experience and dreams become one

The Film Comment Podcast: Locarno 2018

By Nicolas Rapold

August 9, 2018

Mountain views: the discerning festival remains a stimulating laboratory of film culture, including new films by photographer Richard Billingham and a 13.5-hour film that's a feast of genre storytelling

Locarno Interview: Richard Billingham

By Becca Voelcker

August 8, 2018

Home movie: the photographer’s debut feature film brings a snapshot-like fidelity and lived-in feel to council-flat family memories