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NYFF 2019
Lost and Found
By
Michael Koresky
September 3, 2019
Pedro Almodóvar taps into both the anguish and the eroticism of memory in
Pain and Glory
, his most personal film yet
Crossing Over
By
Dennis Lim
July 1, 2019
A prize-winning triumph at Cannes, Mati Diop’s Dakar-set debut feature
Atlantics
confirms an oeuvre of elemental immediacy and dreamlike exile
Interview: Bertrand Bonello
By
Jordan Cronk
June 11, 2019
Dead or alive: the director of
Zombi Child
on voodoo, the oneiric, and his use of music
Film of the Week: Oh Mercy!
By
Jonathan Romney
May 24, 2019
Cops and robbers: with his latest, a
film policier
, Arnaud Desplechin explicitly comes to terms with the world, in a very personal way
Interview: Adèle Haenel
By
Nicolas Rapold
May 24, 2019
Flaming creature: the star of three Cannes standouts, including Céline Sciamma’s
Portrait of a Woman on Fire
, on her ability to inhabit diverse characters
Interview: Mati Diop
By
Eric Hynes
May 22, 2019
Crossing over: the director on her debut feature
Atlantics
, a love story haunted by the failures of the global economy
Interview: Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
By
Ela Bittencourt
May 21, 2019
Country life: The directors of
Bacurau
on how the film‘s setting in Brazil’s wild backcountry informed their blistering portrait of resistance
In Memoriam: Agnès Varda
By
Kelley Conway
May 1, 2019
With deceptively casual genius, Agnès Varda journeyed deep into the truth of experience
Interview: Béla Tarr, the Complete Works
By
R. Emmet Sweeney
February 2, 2012
Béla's back: with the director announcing a new project, revisit his work with our career-spanning 2012 interview
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