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My Encounter with Ken Russell
The release of the director’s cut of Ken Russell’s astonishing The Devils, with breathtaking lead performances by Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave, has become a theatrical sensation. I met with the visionary director in 1987. Here, once again, is our discussion of Gothic, his wild film about Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, and Percy Bysshe Shelley.…
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Stars and More Stars at the New York Film Festival
The New York Film Festival lineup includes many eclectic international films that may never see the light of NYC projectors again. But naturally, the fest also features higher-profile films with marquee names attached, movies heading to commercial theaters in the coming weeks and months. Here’s a roundup of a few of those big titles. The…
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Tales of Obsession at the New York Film Festival
One of the biggest box-office hits of the year is a low-budget horror film called Obsession, in which a young man buys a novelty device that is said to grant wishes. When he asks for the girl of his dreams to fall in love with him, he unleashes a demonic devotion. Obsession is the theme…
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Sandra Hüller Shows Her Range at the New York Film Festival
Sandra Hüller is having a moment. An Oscar nominee for her riveting, multilingual performance in Anatomy of a Fall (Was her character guilty or innocent? We still don’t know), Hüller scored a big Hollywood success this past spring, starring opposite Ryan Gosling in the popular outer-space adventure Project Hail Mary. Currently, she’s appearing opposite Tom Cruise in Alejandro…
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The New York Film Festival Confronts a World in Turmoil
No shade on the many fiction films at this year’s New York Film Festival, but the most gripping entries of the 2026 edition are two documentaries that urgently address the current moment. The 2024 festival brought us My Undesirable Friends: Part I—Last Air in Moscow, a marathon 324-minute look into the lives of a group of…
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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)…
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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