Showing: Critics Academy
The Legacy of Raúl Ruiz
NYFF commemorates the passing of a cinema great with three offerings: his final film Night Across the Street, the film that was to be his next project Lines of Wellington (completed by his wife and editor Valeria Sarmiento), and his avant-garde work The Blind Owl.
“Little Shop” Director’s Cut Lets You Suddenly See More
An impressive restoration of the original ending to Frank Oz's beloved classic Little Shop of Horrors casts the story in an apocalyptic new light. Read more and watch video of the Q&A and live performances from its premiere at NYFF!
The Extravagant Shadows
David Gatten's real-time experiment in (literally) watching paint dry is a beautiful discourse on language and time, and just one of many vibrant and essential offerings in this year's Views from the Avant-Garde.
Riding the Waves of Change
Five years after his highly political Palme d'Or winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (NYFF '07), Cristian Mungiu returns with a film that once again epitomizes the current focus of the Romanian New Wave, the morally ambiguous Beyond the Hills.
The American Dream Gone South
The characters in Antonio Méndez Esparza's Here and There face dashed hopes and questions of belonging, but their particular struggles demonstrate that, as times have changed, the American Dream has changed with them.
When a Lens is a Mirror
The documentaries in NYFF sections Cinéastes/Cinema of Our Time and Cinema Reflected turn the camera back on itself, offering glimpses of John Cassavetes, Ingmar Bergman, Roberto Rossellini, and providing a deeper understanding of the work of these and other beloved filmmakers.
Love, War and Cinema
Two documentaries about director-muse relationships—Roberto Rossellini/Ingrid Bergman in The War of the Volcanoes and Ingmar Bergman/Liv Ullmann in Liv and Ingmar—reveal the close connection between their off-screen lives and the works they teamed to create.
NYFF Critics Academy Participants Announced
Film Society and Film Comment are teaming with Indiewire to nurture eight emerging film critics through a series of workshops, mentor sessions, and discussions with working journalists, filmmakers and members of the film industry.
Critics Academy Coming to 50th NYFF: Applications Now Open!
We're looking for emerging critics and journalists here in New York to participate in a special program at the upcoming New York Film Festival.
“Jack and Diane,” The Werewolf Love Story That Wasn’t
In the final post in our series of articles from the Locarno Critics Academy, Zeba Blay dissects this indie-romance film and the continued cinematic obsession with vampires and werewolves
