Festivals

Festivals: Busan 2018

By April Wolfe

November 12, 2018

Back in the game: a mighty Asian film festival struggles with issues of identity, both on-screen and behind the scenes

Festivals: Pordenone 2018

By Imogen Sara Smith

November 6, 2018

Silent treatment: a specialized festival continued to present illuminating riches from the past with the highest standards of presentation

Festivals: Chicago 2018

By Nick Davis

November 1, 2018

The whole entire world: more than one selection at the long-running fest took on the unequal power dynamics faced globally

Love and Theft

By Aliza Ma

November 1, 2018

Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Palme d’Or-winner Shoplifters unsettles the family drama genre by focusing on society’s forgotten souls

Flow Through Me

By Amy Taubin

November 1, 2018

Willem Dafoe on his Oscar-nominated performance as Vincent Van Gogh in At Eternity’s Gate

Hope for Us Yet

By Manu Yáñez Murillo

November 1, 2018

In Happy as Lazzaro’s time-tripping parable of an innocent adrift, Alice Rohrwacher continues to shine a light into the darkness of modern times

NYFF Interview: Louis Garrel

By Yonca Talu

October 12, 2018

Three's company: the actor-filmmaker brings the playfulness of the stage to a comedy of manners and existence (and a little love)

On Making The Wild Pear Tree

By Nuri Bilge Ceylan

October 8, 2018

Alone in the wilderness: the Turkish filmmaker recounts the trip to the country that inspired his film about a restless young intellectual, screening in Film Comment Presents at NYFF

NYFF Interview: Sky Hopinka

By Becca Voelcker

October 5, 2018

Personal journeys: the filmmaker discusses the language of travel and landscape in works like Fainting Spells, screening in the New York Film Festival

The Film Comment Podcast: NYFF Live 2018 Cinema of Experience

By Nicolas Rapold

October 3, 2018

The 56th New York Film Festival features three special Film Comment Talks, the first of which was our latest “Cinema of Experience” roundtable.