Suffering embraces: Angelo Madsen’s feature documentary A Body to Live In and Tiona Nekkia McClodden’s video installations explore sadomasochism through a soft …
Portraits in life: Ira Sachs’s Peter Hujar’s Day, a not-quite-biopic about the renowned photographer, finds its magic in the mundane…
Taking the stage: a stellar rotation of critics explore the lineup of one of Asia’s major film events…
Eternalisms: a tribute to the indefatigable husband and wife pair, whose art was a neverending process of revelation…
In spite of ourselves: the Scottish auteur discusses her latest, a typically precise portrait of an inscrutable character…
Realms of fortune: the legendary Mexican filmmaker discusses his sixty-year plus career…
Rewriting the past: the Hong Kong-born, Paris based filmmaker and editor reflects on her first and latest features…
What time is it?: critics and programmers Miriam Bale and Adam Piron join to discuss PTA’s latest's successes and failures, how it fits into his larger body of …
Once more?: Jay Kelly, Late Fame, and Is This Thing On? ask whether their protagonists have the energy and motivation to continue…
Refusing the waves: Milagros Mumenthaler’s The Currents and Mascha Schilinski’s Sound of Falling revive the image of the self-drowned woman with a bracing liter…
Paint work: Kelly Reichardt's The Mastermind is fun and funny, but it also just might be her most chilling portrait of America to date…
For those of us fatigued by the carnivorous cycle perpetuated by narratives and images of police brutality, Geeta Gandbhir’s latest, The Perfect Neighbor, funct…
Signed, sealed, delivered: critics Molly Haskell, J. Hoberman, and Beatrice Loayza join for a spirited wrap-up analysis of the highlights and lowlights from thi…
Boss less: Scott Cooper‘s Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere can't find a sincere way of imagining the everyday process of making music…
State of grace: the Italian auteur discusses his latest, a portrait of the renowned early 20th-century stage actress…
Unchained: Ramesh Sippy’s swashbuckling 1975 epic mashes together tropes from westerns, dacoit films, silent comedies, and musicals to create an entirely unique…
Layers of time: the Italian nonfiction master joins to discuss his latest, which explores the city of Naples as an environment both cosmic and prosaic…
Simultaneous dimensions: three films at this year’s NYFF made by or about Palestinians pry open apertures from which we must make sense of Gaza’s horizon as int…
Pixel visions: Dry Leaf, Rose of Nevada, and Levers present us with surfaces so textured and tactile that they have the physicality of a terrain…
Film in my head: the 87-year-old filmmaker discusses her resplendent 1968 debut feature, attending USC film school in the ’60s, and more…
Savage age: the Chinese director discusses his new film’s phantasmagoric odyssey through the history of cinema…
Framed: Kelly Reichardt, Kent Jones, and Lucio Castro join from NYFF63 to discuss the temporality of cinema versus the other arts, the challenge of being a work…
Class canceled: are the binders empty in Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt because the professors are full of shit, or is it just a continuity error?…
Dirty work: Paul Thomas Anderson‘s tumultuous and funny One Battle After Another is not just energetic, but energizing…