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Festivals

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.

NYFF Interview: Christophe Honoré

By David A. Gerstner
September 28, 2018
Recent history: the director of New York Film Festival selection Sorry Angel talks about making the film and portraying love in the 1990s

Festivals: Toronto

By Nick Davis
September 27, 2018
Going supernova: the titles to remember from TIFF, from ANIARA to Vox Lux and beyond

Interview: László Nemes

By Tina Poglajen
September 25, 2018
Before the end: the Oscar-winning director of Son of Saul broaches the underworld and upper crust of prewar Budapest in Sunset, screening February 6 in Film Comment Selects

Festivals: Wavelengths at TIFF

By Nellie Killian
September 24, 2018
Furiously alive: the Toronto festival’s experimental film section featured Roberto Minervini, Helen Wittmann, Jodie Mack, and more to energizing effect