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‘Green Border,’ ‘No Other Land’ and ‘Anora’ Are Among 2024’s Best
Thanks to my relatively new perch on the editorial board at Cineaste, I’m getting to see more films a year than ever. (Editing a monthly magazine and website for several decades limited my free time to luxuriate in the three weeks of New York Film Festival press screenings, although I tried to make up for that…
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More Highlights from the 62nd New York Film Festival
The 62nd New York Film Festival ends on October 14, having screened 73 features plus various programs of shorts. I managed to see 28 films over a whirlwind three weeks of press screenings. Here are some highlights, in addition to the films I’ve discussed in previous posts. One of the most haunting and disturbing films…
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Sigrid Nunez’s Tales of Grief Enliven the New York Film Festival
Avid readers of fiction will know the name Sigrid Nunez, author of nine novels and winner of the National Book Award for her seventh, The Friend (2018). But for many of us, the 2024 New York Film Festival has been the introduction to her world, with the New York premieres of two film versions of her books,…
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New York Film Festival Welcomes Comedies of All Kinds
The annual New York Film Festival has no shortage of exotic, esoteric, and demanding films. But some of the biggest highlights of this year’s event are comedies. Yes, comedies. Raucous comedies. Quirky comedies. Comedy-thrillers. Comedies that double as poignant character studies. But comedies nonetheless. Among the most popular and crowd-pleasing entries at NYFF 62 is…
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Profiles in Courage at the New York Film Festival
One of the most indelible and powerful films at the 62nd annual New York Film Festival is, in its very existence, an act of bravery. No Other Land, written, directed, produced, and edited by Palestinians Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal and Israelis Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, is the story of the Palestinian farming region known…
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Back to ‘The Village’ with M. Night Shyamalan
M. Night Shyamalan is getting some of the best reviews of his career with his new thriller, Trap. The writer-director broke through in a big way in 1999 with his third feature, the Oscar-nominated smash The Sixth Sense. Since then, he’s had hits and notorious flops, but he’s kept generating original stories with often startling twists. Twenty…
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
- Schoonmaker, Thelma
- Schrader, Paul
- Showalter, Michael
- Shyamalan, M. Night
- Ullmann, Liv
- Van Sant, Gus
- Wajda, Andrzej
- Waters, John
- Wilder, Billy
- Woo, John
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Kevin Lally on Film 