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From the Archive

Elia Kazan’s America

By Estelle Changas
October 1, 2019
In this 1972 essay, Changas explores the director’s body of work and commercial decline. America America screens at the NYFF on October 2

Willing Sinner: Pedro Almodóvar

By Marcia Pally
September 17, 2019
With the autobiographical Pain and Glory on the horizon, revisit a 1988 interview with the Spanish auteur

Interview: Martin Scorsese

By Harlan Jacobson
August 20, 2019
In this 1988 interview, the director provides an exegesis of his passion project, The Last Temptation of Christ

Lost in America: Richard Linklater

By Gavin Smith
August 13, 2019
Revisit two sides of the American nightmare in this 2006 interview with the director of the new Where’d You Go, Bernadette

Jacques Demy

By Graham Petrie
August 6, 2019
A rumination on the interwoven nature of color, character, and narrative in the films of Jacques Demy

In the American Grain

By Kent Jones
July 25, 2019
On words, images, and why it’s no longer worth our time to be pitting the two against each other

With Borrowed Eyes: Abbas Kiarostami

By David Sterritt
July 23, 2019
In this interview from 2000, the director discusses The Wind Will Carry Us and his unique form of poetic cinema

Cinema With a Roof Over its Head

By Kent Jones
July 16, 2019
In this 1999 essay, Kent Jones makes a case for Hou Hsiao-hsien's “difficult” films of the ’90s

Interview: Jacques Rivette

By Jonathan Rosenbaum, Lauren Sedofsky, and Gilbert Adair
July 9, 2019
Three critics sat down with the enigmatic filmmaker shortly after the 1974 release of Celine and Julie Go Boating

Interview: Quentin Tarantino

By Gavin Smith
June 18, 2019
The director the highly anticipated Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood dives deep into his first two films in this 1994 interview