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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