Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest film, “The Favourite” screened this past week as the Opening Night film of the 56th New York Film Festival. Written by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara, the movie is a fictionalized take on a portion of the… Read More ›
NYFF 2018
New York Film Festival Review: “High Life”
The opening title for Claire Denis’s 2018 New York Film Festival entry appears almost 15 or 20 minutes after the movie starts. It comes up as a series of dead bodies float in space, having been pushed out of… Read More ›
New York Film Festival Review: “If Beale Street Could Talk”
One thing was evident at the outset of the New York Film Festival screening of Barry Jenkins’ “If Beale Street Could Talk,” which Jenkins has adapted from James Baldwin’s novel, and that’s the writer/director’s confidence. Everything within this touching tale… Read More ›
New York Film Festival Review: “Ash is Purest White”
Following the New York Film Festival screening of Jia Zhang-Ke’s “Ash is Purest White,” I have spent a lot of time contemplating exactly what the title means. There is a discussion in the movie between Qiao (Zhao Tao) and her… Read More ›
New York Film Festival Review: “Long Day’s Journey into Night”
About halfway through the New York Film Festival screening of “A Long Day’s Journey into Night,” I put on my 3D glasses. No, I hadn’t arrived late for the show, the glasses hadn’t fallen off my head, nor did I… Read More ›
New York Film Festival Review: “Non-Fiction”
Written and directed by Oliver Assayas and showing at this year’s New York Film Festival, “Non-Fiction” is a wonderfully funny, smart, bit of filmmaking. It is a movie able to offer snippets of life and some wonderful thoughts on the… Read More ›
New York Film Festival 2018 Review: “Her Smell”
The story of the rock star who, due to drugs and alcohol, falls from grace is certainly nothing new. The fact that it has been done before, however, doesn’t stop the incredible impact of writer-director Alex Ross Perry’s “Her Smell,”… Read More ›
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