New York Film Festival

The 51st New York Film Festival Is as Varied as Its Hometown

I Discuss Flight, The Paperboy, and Other Films on WBAI

Prairie Miller interviewed me about those films and more as we tried to pin down what is in the air, cinematically speaking, when it comes to the angsty dramas that played the New York Film Festival and/or are cannonballing at us for Oscar season. I'm at the 41:50 minute mark.

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Ang Lee's Life Of Pi Opened The Festival

3-D hit the New York Film Festival with the opening night attraction, Life of Pi, a beautifully filmed voyage of awakening featuring a boy and a tiger adrift in a lifeboat. It's basically a love story between the kid and the animal, and I'd call it an inter-species Brokeback Mountain--to name anoth ... More >>

The Two Best Lines In The Descendants

​That's the Alexander Payne movie with George Clooney as a guy whose wife is in the hospital after a boating accident and who has to re-examine his past as he learns about wifey's doings while reconnecting with their two awkwardly behaving daughters. It just played the New York Film Festival ... More >>

The Artist: Silence Is Golden?

​A new silent movie about the heyday of silent movies, The Artist has crisp black and white photography, swelling music, and a likable cast. At the New York Film Festival showing the other day, star Jean Dujardin explained the filming process:

NYFF: Daily Reviews

Daily updates from the Festival

NYFF: And the Ladies Have It

5 complex female characters, 5 remarkable performances

This Week in the Voice: Inside Suckadelic Enterprises, R.E.M.'s Reckoning

This week in the Voice, out today: Camille Dodero profiles the Sucklord, 42-year-old Morgan Phillips, who lived with his mother till the age of 36 but is now an important figure in the designer toy world despite thinking that everyone sucks. Maura Johnston takes stock of R.E.M.'s breakup in light o ... More >>

Meek's Cutoff: Western Disunion

Foreign Parts Expertly Captures Willets Point on the Brink of Foreclosure

White Material and The Cry of Jazz: Races Clash, Revolutions Ignite

'Five Easy Pieces' Highlights the 1970 New York Film Fest

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. September 10, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 37 Films in Focus By Andrew Sarris September is upon us and with it the (Eighth) New York Film Festival of which I have been a part since 1966. Any institution that lasts eight years in this cruel town ... More >>

'To Save and Project': MOMA's International Orgy of the Newly Preserved

Feel the Rage All Over Again With Financial Disaster Doc Inside Job

Your Favorite Beatles Song?

​As what would have been his 70th birthday approaches, John Lennon is getting a whole lot of posthumous hoopla -- like a movie, Nowhere Boy, about his early days; a documentary about his Gotham years, playing in the New York Film Festival; and a Beatles revue called Rain dripping down on Broad ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Nine 11 Thesaurus, Sisters, Salem, Negative Plane, and More

Nine 11 Thesaurus. Photo by Santiago Felipe.​In this week's Village Voice, Andy Beta profiles Bushwick teen rap ensemble Nine 11 Thesaurus and the after-school program that produced them, Ray Cummings talks with Brooklyn noise pop band Sisters, Eavvon O'Neal on Salem and witch house, and Adam ... More >>

New York Film Festival: The Hype and the Substance

This year's NYFF manages both. Plus: Our best of the fest

This Week in the Voice: The 2010 New York Film Festival

​Every year, we descend on Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center to separate the hype from the heavyweights at American cinema's fall classic, the New York Film Festival. This year is no different, as legendary Village Voice film critic J. Hoberman weighs in with the hits and misses of The 2010 N ... More >>

Times Critics to the NY Film Fest: Stop Picking Such Good Movies. It's Depressing!

​As film journalists gird for next week's Tribeca Film Festival, it's useful to recall the invective recently inspired by the city's other major film fest. The 2009 New York Film Festival, presented last fall by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, was the first under the administrative leaders ... More >>

Maren Ade on Her Couples' Characters Study, Everyone Else

With Antichrist, Charlotte Gainsbourg Rises

An interview with Cannes's 2009 Best Actress

New York Film Festival 2009: This Year's Documentaries

Five Must-See Films From the New York Film Festival

LOLA-CITA

Restoring Max Ophül's masterpiece

Sea Change

Sand, surf, and everything comes undone in Hong San-soo's Woman on the Beach

Nathan Lee's Top 10

Lincoln Center South

The NYFF walks its avant-garde picture palace to Anthology Film Archives

Sizing Up the 45th New York Film Festival

From diving bells to red balloons, the NYFF's critical condition

It Is What It Is

Yes (I'm Not There !), NYFF 45 (Blade Runner?) plays to its base (Don Rickles!), but what's so bad about that? (Redacted.)

The Good, Bad, and Truly Spectacular: Tribeca Film Festival 2007

Rising ticket prices! Sponsorship gone awry! Oh yes, and a movie you do not want to miss.

Redistributing the Wealth

NYFF's 31-film ode to Janus a veritable Cinema 101

The Departed

In a lonely place: Love and loss in hypnotic bike-cop movie

Rack Focus

Kitschy Kuchar Coup: Uptown Cheers for Bronx-Born Underground Legends

Festival Express

FCS reaches critical mass, yielding No Rest for the Brave

Reunification Blues

Two halves do not make a whole: a Korean director charts his nation's psychic divisions

Time Regained in an Underground Master's Lyrical Diary Films

Play Mystic For Me

With an ambitious crime thriller, Clint Eastwood opens NYFF and returns to top form

It's Oh So Quiet

Home and Away

France's International Anthems

Reversals of Fortune

Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me

Matters of Taste

Scout Camp

Sweet Release

Distributing the Art-House Wealth on the Cheap

Picture This

Thrillers! Satires! Westerns! Indies! Blockbusters! Sequels!

Use Your Illusion

Best of the Rest

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