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NYFF

Interview: Joachim Trier

By Mark Asch
October 18, 2021
Common people: the Norwegian director discusses his latest, a shape-shifting romantic comedy of self-realization, The Worst Person in the World

Waking Life

By Imogen Sara Smith
October 18, 2021
Time’s arrow: in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria, the past is alien, layered with trauma and the beauty of the unknowable

Of Gods and Men

By Molly Haskell
October 12, 2021
Saddle sore: Jane Campion’s latest is lacking in the richly personal, idiosyncratic feminism of her great early films

Interview: Alexandre Koberidze

By Jessica Kiang
October 12, 2021
In dreams: the Georgian director discusses the method behind the delicate balance of romance, folklore, and social critique in his What Do We See When We Look At The Sky?

Interview: Julia Ducournau

By Isabel Sandoval
October 12, 2021
Motorhead: the director of Titane on the film’s surprising use of humor, her abiding interest in “opening the skin,” and much more

Are You Talking to Me?

By Adam Nayman
October 12, 2021
I’m looking through you: The common denominator in Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car and Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy is an acceptance of transience in all things

A House Divided

By Amy Taubin
October 3, 2019
Bong Joon-ho’s tour de force Parasite, a highlight of NYFF57, is part twisty social thriller, part heart-stopping tragicomedy

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

The First New York Film Festival

By Gordon Hitchens
April 23, 2019
Gordon Hitchens, Film Comment's founding editor, reports on the first New York Film Festival