Listen to this: the place and role of music in NYFF61 biopics Maestro and Priscilla is instructive of the ways in which an artist’s life can only be understood through their work
Decline and fall: the French discusses her Palme d’Or–winning feature, which uses courtroom-drama tropes to fashion a dark, witty, and tender dissection of the complexities of romantic and family life
Sweet nothings: all-star critics Molly Haskell, Adam Nayman, and Kelli Weston join for a Film Comment Live talk to discuss and debate all the highlights of the festival that was
Love in the afternoon: the French filmmaker discusses her return to cinema, the productive tension between realism and expressionism, the art of the sex scene, and much more
Purple haze: highlights of the NYFF61 Currents shorts programs make a case for a cinema that turns minimalism and economy into a field for vibrant, unfettered experimentation
Office culture: director Rodrigo Moreno discusses his NYFF61 standout, a matryoshka doll of a movie, crackling with dry humor, about the drudgery of office work
Be like water: Víctor Erice’s Close Your Eyes and Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Pictures of Ghosts are love letters to cinema that take very different approaches
Work out: representatives of the unions behind the writers’ and actors’ strikes join, along with critic Alissa Wilkinson, to discuss these labor actions
Earth and sky: the director and cinematographer behind the NYFF61 standout discuss their poetic, evocative portrait of a young woman whose story is inextricably linked to a sense of community and place
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