If you build it: a pervading sense of mourning is the most coherent thing about Brady Corbet's The Brutalist, an otherwise largely unfocused and self-important movie
Watch the stars: the photographer and filmmaker discusses his new adaptation of Colson Whitehead's novel, the film’s compelling use of first-person point of view, and his interest in capturing what he calls “adjacent images”
Midnight confessions: the novelist and filmmaker discusses his new noir comedy, which follows a young man who returns to his hometown in the French countryside and finds himself embroiled in an unpredictable (and increasingly dangerous) game of lust
Together and apart: the two directors discuss the making of their award-winning documentary, their transition from journalism to cinema, and finding the right balance between images of incontrovertible violence with those of resilience and life
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
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