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Catching Up with Cannes at the New York Film Festival
For those of us in NYC who don’t have the good fortune to travel the festival circuit (Cannes, Venice, Toronto, etc.), the New York Film Festival offers a welcome chance to catch up with many of the films that have been generating buzz from leading critics. The 64th New York Film Festival (Sept. 25-Oct. 12)…
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In 1984, Mark Rydell Followed ‘On Golden Pond’ with a Torrential ‘River’
The director Mark Rydell died on August 13, 2026, at the age of 97. Rydell began his career as an actor, earning fans in the 1950s for his role on the daytime soap opera “As the World Turns.” (It was my mother’s favorite soap, and I actually remember him from my summers off from elementary…
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‘Toy Story 5’ Director Andrew Stanton Found ‘Nemo’ in 2003
Pixar’s Toy Story 5 just posted the biggest opening of 2026, with $160 million in North America, a franchise record. Writer-director Andrew Stanton has been with this beloved series of films since the first Toy Story premiered in 1995. I interviewed Stanton in 2003 to discuss another Pixar blockbuster, Finding Nemo, his first sole directing…
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‘Just Look Up,’ ‘House of Criticism’ and More Tribeca Highlights
One of the most provocative documentaries at this year’s Tribeca Festival is Just Look Up, a very intimate portrait of the youthful activist group Climate Defiance and its eccentric founder and executive director, Michael Greenberg. In the tradition of the disruptive AIDS organization ACT UP, the members of Climate Defiance justifiably view the climate crisis as…
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Documentary Highlights at the Tribeca Festival
Every year at the Tribeca Fest, I gravitate toward their documentary offerings. (To quote Forrest Gump, when it comes to their narrative selections, you never know what you’re going to get.) I’ve already written about four of their New York-oriented docs. Here are four more documentaries that were well worth my time. Hollywood Does Abortion begins…
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Tribeca Documentaries Shine a Light on New York
The Tribeca Festival was created in 2002 by Robert De Niro and his business partner Jane Rosenthal with the intention of reinvigorating the area of Manhattan impacted by the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. So it’s no surprise that the 25th edition of the festival would include a new documentary…
Kevin Lally on Film
Interviews and more from the former executive editor of Film Journal International and Boxoffice Pro
- Film Appreciation
- Filmmakers
- Altman, Robert
- Baker, Sean
- Bass, Saul
- Benton, Robert
- Bigelow, Kathryn
- Coen, Joel and Ethan
- Costa-Gavras, Constantin
- Davies, Terence
- de Angelis, Edoardo
- Docter, Pete
- Duvall, Robert
- Eastwood, Clint
- Foley, James
- Freeman, Morgan
- Gondry, Michel
- Gordon, Emily V.
- Henson, Jim
- Ivory, James
- Jewison, Norman
- Johnson, Rian
- Jones, Chuck
- Kelly, Gene
- Lee, Spike
- Lemmon, Jack
- Lester, Richard
- Lord, Peter
- Lumet, Sidney
- Lynch, David
- Maddin, Guy
- Malle, Louis
- Martin, Steve
- Nair, Mira
- Nanjiani, Kumail
- Oz, Frank
- Park, Nick
- Polanski, Roman
- Ponti, Edoardo
- Reiner, Carl
- Resnais, Alain
- Russell, Ken
- Rydell, Mark
- Schoonmaker, Thelma
- Schrader, Paul
- Showalter, Michael
- Shyamalan, M. Night
- Stanton, Andrew
- Ullmann, Liv
- Van Sant, Gus
- Wajda, Andrzej
- Waters, John
- Wilder, Billy
- Woo, John
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