Tag: My Undesirable Friends

• 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…

  gkevinlally

  September 27, 2026

  Film Appreciation, Uncategorized

  julia-loktev, My Undesirable Friends, NAZA, New York Film Festival, tv-rain

• 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…

  gkevinlally

  December 29, 2025

  Film Appreciation

  An Officer and a Spy, Apocalypse in the Tropics, Blue Moon, Deaf President Now!, Familiar Touch, It Was Just an Accident, My Undesirable Friends, Sinners, The Secret Agent, The Voice of Hind Rajab