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Tribeca Festival Celebrates 25th Anniversary with Earth, Wind & Fire
The Tribeca Festival is celebrating its 25th anniversary, and it always strives to make opening night an event. Often, that strategy involves programming a music documentary combined with a live performance. I’ll never forget the night in 2017 when Tribeca premiered a doc about legendary music executive Clive Davis at Radio City Music Hall, with…
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Lincoln Center’s ‘Open Roads’ Series Celebrates Roberto Rossellini
It’s the 25th anniversary of “Open Roads,” Film at Lincoln Center’s annual festival of new films from Italy. The 14 New York premieres in the series include two biopics and a documentary about one of Italy’s most renowned directors. The fest coincides with the 120th birthday of Roberto Rossellini (1906-1977), a pioneer of Italy’s Neorealism…
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Robert Duvall Triumphed as Both Actor and Director with ‘The Apostle’
Robert Duvall, one of the greatest actors of his generation, died on February 15, 2026, at the age of 95. What many people don’t know is that he was also a formidable and adventurous film director. I had the good fortune to interview Duvall in 1997 to discuss one of his acting and directing triumphs, The Apostle. As…
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Jewish Film Festival Salutes Charles Grodin, Rebel with a Cause
Each fall’s New York Film Festival is always a big highlight of the year, but Film at Lincoln Center’s other annual events are also a welcome opportunity to experience new international films. Coming up later this year are “New Directors/New Films,” “Rendez-Vous with French Cinema” and “Open Roads: New Italian Cinema.” And every January brings…
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A Spy and a Secret Agent Lead My 2025 Ten Best List
In 2023, I went against the grain and named a film from 1961, Dino Risi’s Una Vita Difficile, which had never before been released in America, as the best picture of the year. Well, my contrarian impulse has surfaced again. This year I’m placing a film from 2019, Roman Polanski’s An Officer and a Spy, at the…
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More Highlights of the 63rd New York Film Festival
The 63rd New York Film Festival concludes on Monday, October 13, 2025. I managed to see 31 features—some were disappointing, a few I actively hated, but the majority were well worth the trip from Brooklyn to Lincoln Center. Here are four favorites. The most delightful (yet very naughty) surprise was Pillion, just your average comedy-romance about…
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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