Varda by Agnès | NYFF 2019
By Rania Richardson October 17, 2019
A master class that brings valuable insights to a significant career, more than six decades after it began.
Festivals
Portrait of a Lady on Fire | NYFF 2019
By Wilda Williams October 16, 2019
Céline Sciamma turns to period drama with this elegant meditation on female desire that flips the script on the male gaze.
Liberté | NYFF 2019
By Kent Turner October 12, 2019
Albert Serra’s film has a strange, almost hypnotic pull, while turning its watchers into complicit voyeurs.
New York Film Festival 2019
By Kent Turner October 10, 2019
For New Yorkers attending the NYFF, it’s almost like going to the Cannes Film Festival, but without the jetlag, the exchange rate, and the overpriced accommodations.
Beanpole | NYFF 2019
By Wilda Williams October 8, 2019
Kantemir Balagov’s extraordinary second film opens in postwar Leningrad, where survivors are still reeling from the devastation.
The Australian Dream | TIFF 2019
By Kent Turner September 21, 2019
An arresting and alarming documentary scrutinizes racism on the football field and throughout Australian culture, as experienced by one of the country’s star players.
Frankie | TIFF 2019
By Kent Turner September 11, 2019
If Portugal becomes overrun with tourists, blame can go to director Ira Sachs’s new drama.
Sorry We Missed You, American Woman | TIFF 2019 Kicks Off
By Kent Turner September 5, 2019
Ken Loach returns to TIFF with a film that is, in many ways, as strong and less predictable than I, Daniel Blake, which won the Palme D’Or, and Toronto-based Semi Chellas adapts author Susan Choi’s fictionalized take of Patty Hearst on the lam.
De Lo Mio | BAMcinemaFest 2019
By Kent Turner June 22, 2019
The festival can boast of its own discovery, the world premiere of director Diana Peralta’s debut film, a family drama of regret and remembrance.