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The Pre-Show
The Pre-Show: Notes
By
Film Comment
May 8, 2020
Personal Hell
By
Janicza Bravo
May 8, 2020
In Janicza Bravo’s hyper-vivid
Zola
, a woman joins an unpredictable new friend on a road trip into chaos and violence
Infinite Spirit: Michael Snow
By
Amy Taubin
May 8, 2020
One of cinema’s primary colors, filmmaker Michael Snow remembers a rambunctious screening of a foundational work in New York
Next Door
By
Nicolas Rapold
May 8, 2020
A cruise ship worker enters a portal to another world in the gently surreal
Window Boy Would Also Like to Have a Submarine
No Words: Wanda Jakubowska’s The Last Stage
By
Nicolas Rapold
May 8, 2020
A pioneering Polish filmmaker brought Auschwitz to the screen within years of experiencing its horrors firsthand
The Last Ten Films I’ve Seen
By
Jia Zhang-ke
May 1, 2020
The director of
Ash is Purest White
lists his recent favorites
The Buck Stops Here: Tracy Letts
By
Steven Mears
November 15, 2019
The actor adds to a nuanced gallery of irascible authority figures in
Ford v Ferrari
and
Little Women
Cracking the Code: Corneliu Porumboiu
By
Jordan Cronk
October 7, 2019
Romanian puzzler Corneliu Porumboiu delights in deceit with the island crime yarn
The Whistlers
, screening at NYFF
Killing for a Living
By
Rodrigo Prieto
September 27, 2019
The cinematographer of Martin Scorsese’s much-anticipated
The Irishman
evokes the passing of eras for a dedicated, deadly workingman
Directions: New Haunts
By
Jonathan Romney
May 1, 2019
Stray Dogs
master Tsai Ming-liang pushes into the virtual realm and the great beyond
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