Flannery
Fans of Flannery O'Connor's work will reread her books with fresh eyes, while newcomers will be introduced to her wild, visionary imagination.
Film-Forward
John Lewis: Good Trouble
The story of Congressman John Lewis’s life is the ongoing story of the civil rights movement.
Coward. Bully. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
The sometimes eye-opening, jaw-dropping stories that the interviewees divulge bring Cohn—and the documentary—so vividly to life.
Shirley
Stylistically and tonally, director Josephine Decker tries to present writer Shirley Jackson’s life like a Shirley Jackson story.
Les Misérables
Ladj Ly’s movie graphically examines how French society, through the actions of one police squad, reaps what it sows.
Non-Fiction, Her Smell, Where’s My Roy Cohn? | MoMA’s Contenders 2019
Now in its 12th annual incarnation, “The Contenders” series screens some of the most noteworthy films of the previous 12 months.
The Booksellers | NYFF 2019
Eccentric and idiosyncratic personalities abound.
Portrait of a Lady on Fire | NYFF 2019
Céline Sciamma turns to period drama with this elegant meditation on female desire that flips the script on the male gaze.
Beanpole | NYFF 2019
Kantemir Balagov’s extraordinary second film opens in postwar Leningrad, where survivors are still reeling from the devastation.