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A Week of Listening and Reading
Two outstanding podcasts return, and every one of Hong Sangsoo’s features is revisited.
A Guide to the Gotham Awards Nominations
Here’s a taste of what the critics have been saying about the nominees.
Fall Books
An autumnal round of reviews, excerpts, interviews, and news.
The Great War in Living Color and 3D
Peter Jackson revamps archival footage from the First World War in They Shall Not Grow Old.
Ben Wheatley Comes Home
With Happy New Year, Colin Burstead, the British director returns to the nit and grit of his early features.
The Unkillable Genre
If horror is going to be forever plagued by remakes and sequels, we could do worse than this year’s Halloween and Suspiria.
Mariano Llinás’s La flor
Llinás and his troupe of four performers present a playful, open, inventive, fourteen-hour-long adventure.
Barry Jenkins’s If Beale Street Could Talk
This adaptation of James Baldwin’s 1974 novel is a testament to the director’s professed influences.
Three Projections
Features by Tsai Ming-liang, Jodie Mack, and Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt exhibit the range of the NYFF program.
Histories and Debates
A “skeleton key” to an epic audiovisual essay by Godard and interviews with Anna Biller and Richard Linklater are among this week’s highlights.
Olivier Assayas’s Non-Fiction
Four delightful performances enliven debates about the future of art and literature.
Claire Denis’s High Life
Denis’s first feature in English—and her first foray into science fiction—stars Robert Pattinson and Juliette Binoche.
Three Journeys
The past weighs heavily on the present in Long Day’s Journey into Night, Ash Is Purest White, and A Family Tour.
Two Other Americas
On Roberto Minervini’s What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? and Frederick Wiseman’s Monrovia, Indiana.
Probing the Origins of Trumpism
Three documentaries at the NYFF explore routes to our current moment.
Ulrich Köhler’s In My Room
This “lean but evocative allegory” can be read in a surprising number of ways.
Alex Ross Perry’s Her Smell
Elisabeth Moss steers a ’90s-era rock band towards self-immolation.
Miéville in Brussels and Dorsky in Chicago
This week’s round also includes David Bordwell on Alain Resnais and Sergei Loznitsa’s tribute to Kira Muratova.
NYFF 2018 Opens with The Favourite
A collection of previews of the fifty-sixth edition and a fresh round of raves for the latest from Yorgos Lanthimos
Orson Welles and The Other Side of the Wind
The completion of the project Welles began in the 1970s is one of the major cinematic events of the year.
Moving Image Artists Up for the Turner Prize
All four finalists in the running for Britain’s best-known art award work with moving images.
Frankfurt Plans a Fassbinder Center
The research center and archive will open early next year.
Auteurism, the “Manspreading Machine”
This week’s round of five highlights begins with a new column and a new issue of Film Quarterly.