Anything Goes: Miguel Gomes (An Interview)
David PhelpsTabu, fantasy, history, cinema.
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Making Up For Lost Time: "Stop" and "The Day of Two Noons"
Blair McClendonTwo films from the New York Film Festival’s sidebar Views from the Avant-Garde.
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Virtual Refractions 1: "Holy Motors" (The Living Screen)
David PhelpsDecoding the dharma of Denis Lavant’s cosmic ascent to The Real World.
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Spatial Suspense: A Conversation with Christian Petzold
Daniel KasmanThe director of Barbara talks horror films, surveillance, shooting on 35mm, the sound of a room, the silence of a set.
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Putting the Parts Together: A Conversation with Abbas Kiarostami
Daniel KasmanDiscussing making his new movie in Japan.
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The Noteworthy: Panahi Strikes Again, Assayas on Assayas, VIFF & NYFF Underway
NotebookPanahi completes another “effort” under house-arrest, Lincoln debuts at NYFF, Dennis Lim looks at the work of Ben Rivers & more…
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Images of the Day. Peter Kubelka's Monument Film sculpture
Daniel KasmanImages from an installation constituting Kubelka’s new film, Antiphon, Arnulf Rainer (1960), and the two combined.
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Movie Poster of the Week: The Posters of the 26th New York Film Festival
Adrian CurryA look back at the posters for departing festival director Richard Peña’s very first NYFF.
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A Land Imagined: A Conversation with Nicolas Rey
Daniel KasmanAbout Rey’s experimental 16mm feature, differently, Molussia, which adapts a book on totalitarianism the filmmaker has never read.
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Love in the Painted Image
Daniel KasmanFrom the New York Film Festival, David Gatten’s first work in digital video is a long form movie capturing painted images and broken texts.
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Cinema Sounding System
Daniel KasmanAn ingenious, claustrophobic dream film at the NYFF centers on a sound mixer helping produce a horrifically violent giallo.
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A Property of Movies: A Conversation with Brian De Palma
Daniel KasmanThe director talks about his new movie, home video cinephilia, working with cinema’s greatest composers, and more.