New York Film Festival
Culture Desk
The Beautiful, Unpredictable Life of Ryuichi Sakamoto
The composer and artist always seemed to anticipate the future of sound.
By Sasha Frere-Jones
The Front Row
What to See in the New York Film Festival’s Second Week
Hong Sangsoo, Catherine Breillat, and Sofia Coppola deliver three types of intensity.
By Richard Brody
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What to See in the New York Film Festival’s First Week
Four of the best films, despite their vast differences, display highly distinctive ways of juxtaposing images and words.
By Richard Brody
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Two Portraits of the Power and Menace of Image-Making, at the New York Film Festival
A pair of the strongest entries at this year’s festival spotlight brilliant artists at work: Jafar Panahi and Thelonious Monk.
By Richard Brody
The Front Row
Three Highlights from the First Week of the 2022 New York Film Festival
A trio of films share provocative approaches to the cinematic representation of facts.
By Richard Brody
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Highlights of the New York Film Festival’s Second Week
Metaphysical mysteries and political dangers come to the fore in a teeming program of international films by Céline Sciamma, Hong Sangsoo, and others.
By Richard Brody
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Melvin Van Peebles and Other Highlights from the New York Film Festival
The late filmmaker’s “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song,” playing in the Revivals section, is one standout of the festival’s first week.
By Richard Brody
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Highlights from the Third Week of the New York Film Festival
Encore screenings at the online festival follow a married thirtysomething during a night out in Seoul and the complicated lives of West Indian people in the U.K.
By Richard Brody
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Highlights from the Second Week of the New York Film Festival
Some top selections from the festival come from three veteran filmmakers, who provide illuminating views both of their longtime artistic obsessions and of the present day.
By Richard Brody
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Highlights from Week One of the New York Film Festival
This year’s festival, which will be watched mainly at home, will be different—though the differences will be distinct for each film.
By Richard Brody
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Highlights from the Third Week of the New York Film Festival
A filmmaker’s illuminatingly introspective last work, a richly textured drama, and a documentary about the convergence of entertainment and justice.
By Richard Brody
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Preview: Highlights from the Second Week of the New York Film Festival
A pair of stylistically imaginative, politically acute dramas, and a batch of shorts from local filmmakers.
By Richard Brody
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Preview: Highlights from the First Week of the New York Film Festival
Although most of the best movies in this year’s festival will screen during its later weeks, three cinematic treasures are on offer during the first few days.
By Richard Brody
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Highlights from the New York Film Festival: Hong Sang-soo’s “Hotel by the River”
In “Hotel by the River,” the South Korean director Hong Sang-soo loosens his style for a family story that is compact, hard-edged, and sometimes dazzlingly intricate.
By Richard Brody
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“American Dharma,” Reviewed: Errol Morris Lets Steve Bannon Off the Hook
In his desire to make a movie about Bannon rather than merely to film an interview with Bannon, Morris does too much, but the lack of simplicity proves also to be a lack of clarity.
By Richard Brody
The Front Row
Highlights from the 2018 New York Film Festival: Ying Liang’s “A Family Tour” and Alex Ross Perry’s “Her Smell”
By Richard Brody
Goings On About Town
Cinematic Ambition at the New York Film Festival
The festival will showcase new movies along with revivals and rediscoveries, including the recently completed Orson Welles film “The Other Side of the Wind,” shot in the nineteen-seventies.
Richard Brody
Highlights from the Second Weekend of the New York Film Festival
Notes on Claude Lanzmann’s “The Four Sisters,” Greta Gerwig’s “Lady Bird,” and other major screenings from the festival.
By Richard Brody
Richard Brody
What to Stream This Weekend: Five Standouts from New York Film Festivals Past
By Richard Brody
Richard Brody
“The Rape of Recy Taylor”: An Essential, Flawed Documentary at the New York Film Festival
By Richard Brody