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The Daily
Jun 21, 2019 — Can the movies survive? Can rotten people be great artists? Are we all doomed?
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Apr 30, 2019 — With its fresh vision, and yes, box office success, Boyz n the Hood (1991) made Singleton a force to be reckoned with for nearly three decades.
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Jan 23, 2019 — Checking in on how the nominees are currently faring with critics and awards prognosticators.
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Oct 1, 2018 — Three documentaries at the NYFF explore routes to our current moment.
Jun 25, 2018 — It’s been six weeks since the Ukrainian filmmaker began his hunger strike.
May 24, 2018 — The late novelist’s work has proven to be an all but insurmountable challenge to screenwriters—but there’s hope.
May 17, 2018 — Gaspar Noé’s nightmare party movie takes the top prize.
Essays
Oct 26, 2016 — The tropes of light comedy give way to a Kafkaesque nightmare in this incendiary critique of moral rot in Franco-era Spain.
Oct 11, 2016 — Before the New York Film Festival premiere of Hermia and Helena, his 2016 riff on A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the Argentine director stopped by to discuss the Bard and the movies that shaped him as a filmmaker.
Essays
May 15, 2000 — Twenty-five years after its first appearance, Bergman’s film of The Magic Flute remains the finest screen version of an opera ever produced. Shot in sumptuous color by Sven Nykvist, and featuring some of the finest Nordic singers of the day,...