Tribeca Festival June 4-15
A late congresswoman delivers this 24th edition’s most urgent message Caution: This opening essay history is one movie critic’s personal…
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Open Roads Italian Film Fest May 29-June 5
Two peerless movies-about-movies top New York’s essential art cinema festival Next to the French New Wave, your critic’s cinematic tastes…
New Directors New Films April 2-13
Why five brutal years of Covid haven’t dented New York’s passion for this 54th ND/NF Five years ago at this…
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, March 6–16
23 new features make up the best highwire balancing act in Manhattan art cinema Every winter/spring for 30 years, Film…
New York Jewish Film Festival Jan. 15-29
Lincoln Center hosts a dramatic panorama from 1964 Beatlemania to 10/7/23 terrorism in Israel Buried deep in this year’s NYJFF…
DOC NYC Nov. 13–21
Spyware, an Irish author, and a Congo leader top America’s largest documentary fest Manhattan has always had an insatiable thirst…
The New York Film Festival Sept. 27–Oct.13
‘Read the Book, See the Movie’ defines a festival rich with literary excellence This critic’s 62nd NYFF grew larger in size…
Film Noir in One Film Image
Lincoln Center to present 17-film retrospective “Robert Siodmak: Dark Visionary” Dec.11-19 No less than eight of your critic’s favorite 1940s…
Interview with Courtney Stephens and Callie Hernandez about the film, “Invention” Locarno Film Festival 2024
One of the most complex and sophisticated films in Locarno’s Cineasti del presenti competition this year was the American independent…