Tag: New York Film Festival
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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…
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Movies on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Screenings at the New York Film Festival have provided a welcome escape from each day’s appalling headlines. And counterintuitively, some of the best escapes have been films focusing on characters riddled with anxiety. Perhaps it’s a sign of the times, but it’s been gratifying to enter the lives of protagonists you’d never trade places with.…
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New York Film Festival Spotlights Artists and Performers
By my count, the 2025 edition of the New York Film Festival offers no less than 15 features about artists or performers, including documentaries about Martin Scorsese and the comedy team of Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. That emphasis on the arts will no doubt have strong appeal for the Lincoln Center demographic. The most…
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New York Film Festival Welcomes Cannes Award Winners ‘The Secret Agent’ and ‘It Was Just an Accident’
The 63rd New York Film Festival opens at Lincoln Center on September 26, 2025. Thanks to early press screenings, I’ve already seen 12 out of the 74 features being screened through October 13—and I can make some strong recommendations. I had the pleasure of interviewing Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho for Boxoffice magazine in 2019 about his…
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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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