NYFF 2019

Playlist: NYFF57 Contest

October 3, 2019

In the groove: this year’s selection is also notable for its wealth of music, with films from Scorsese to Sciamma employing pop songs as narrative fulcrums

Elia Kazan’s America

By Estelle Changas

October 1, 2019

In this 1972 essay, Changas explores the director’s body of work and commercial decline. America America screens at the NYFF on October 2

Unquiet Spirits: Atlantics, Vitalina Varela, and Martin Eden

By Imogen Sara Smith

September 30, 2019

On three strikingly beautiful films at NYFF57: Mati Diop’s Atlantics, Pedro Costa’s Vitalina Varela, and Pietro Marcello’s Martin Eden

Matters of Life and Death: Nadav Lapid

By Jordan Cronk

September 30, 2019

The director of Synonyms looks within to portray the essence of the outlier

Interview Excerpt: Céline Sciamma

By Amy Taubin

September 27, 2019

Read an excerpt from an forthcoming interview with the director of Portrait of a Lady on Fire, one of the most anticipated films of the year

Killing for a Living

By Rodrigo Prieto

September 27, 2019

The cinematographer of Martin Scorsese’s much-anticipated The Irishman evokes the passing of eras for a dedicated, deadly workingman

The Film Comment Podcast: NYFF 2019 #1

By Nicolas Rapold

September 25, 2019

Looking ahead: Ashley Clark and Farihah Zaman join to preview highlights from NYFF, kicking off this Friday

The Film Comment Podcast: Pedro Almodóvar and Pain and Glory

By Nicolas Rapold

September 18, 2019

Man in the mirror: Michael Koresky and Eugene Hernandez join to discuss the Spanish filmmaker’s beloved career

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

What a Fool Believes

By Nicolas Rapold

September 3, 2019

Nobody wins in Noah Baumbach’s fraught and funny Marriage Story, a precise chronicle of a split that cuts deep