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NYFF, ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’ Is a Conventional Biopic Saved By Iconic Music

@Courtesy of 20 Century Studios The core of the story is simple and universal: a man in his early thirties is deeply haunted by the ghosts of his past, especially an abusive father figure who made his childhood a mix of joy and deep sorrow. After all those years he still doesn’t know how to…

NYFF: ‘Angel’s Egg’ is an Artistic, Mysterious Allegory on the Nature of Existence

©Courtesy of GKIDS An isolated scream of personal despair can ultimately become the voice of a generation that’s contending with the nature of their existence. The anguish felt in the reverberating cry of the young heroine in the fantasy anime movie, Angel’s Egg, echoes the crisis of faith many adolescents face as they come of…

NYFF: Resurrection By Bi Gan Is a Hypnotic Ballad About the Love For Cinema

@Courtesy of NYFF Winner of the Jury Special Prize at the last Cannes Film Festival, the visionary tale directed by Bi Gan lands at the New York Film Festival as one of the most innovative feature-films seen in the 2025 edition.  Conceived as a science fiction movie, Resurrection is set in a future where mankind…

NYFF: ‘A House of Dynamite’ Delivers a Powerful Nightmare About Nuclear Annihilation

@Courtesy of Netflix A House of Dynamite is the best and most important movie about nuclear threat since Dr. Strangelove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb by Stanley Kubrick. Working on the articulate screenplay by Noah Oppenheim, Kathryn Bigelow has directed a high-tension drama that explores the danger and dilemmas of…

NYFF/The Mastermind Review: Masterful Kelly Reichardt and Josh O’Connor’s Subtle Sting

©Courtesy of MUBI She has been called the quietest of the great American directors. Kelly Reichardt doesn’t rush. She clears away the unnecessary and takes her time capturing the American soul. Now she returns with something as unusual and unlikely as an observational heist movie. Her style works wonders. Set in a sleepy Massachusetts suburb…

Rose Kuo named as California Film Institute (CAFILM) Artistic Director

Courtesy of The California Film Institute The California Film Institute (CAFILM) has named Rose Kuo as Artistic Director, a newly created leadership position established earlier this year to guide the organization’s artistic vision and ensure a seamless program leadership transition in the years ahead. Kuo is an internationally recognized leader in cinematic arts with a…

An Extensive Look at Film at Lincoln Center’s 63rd New York Film Festival 

Now in its 63rd year, Film at Lincoln Center’s New York Film Festival (aka NYFF) can boast proudly about being one of the longest-running film festivals within the United States and even North America. When it began in 1963, it was looking to Europe, where film festivals like Cannes, Berlin (Berlinale), and Venice (Bienalle) were…

NYFF63 Spotlight Gala Announced!

Springsteen Deliver Me from Nowhere. Courtesy of 20th Century Studios. Film at Lincoln Center announces the premiere of Scott Cooper’s “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere“ as the Spotlight Gala selection of the 63rd New York Film Festival. At the premiere presentation on Sunday, September 28, Cooper and cast members Jeremy Allen White, Jeremy Strong, and Odessa Young will…

FLC announces North American premiere of Luca Guadagnino’s AFTER THE HUNT as Opening Night of the 63rd New York Film Festival

Film at Lincoln Center announces the North American premiere of Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt as Opening Night of the 63rd New York Film Festival, presented in partnership with Rolex, at Alice Tully Hall on Friday, September 26, with Guadagnino and members of the cast in attendance. Presented by Film at Lincoln Center, the 63rd New York…

NYFF: ‘The Damned’ Brings Us Where We’ve Already Been…

@Courtesy of Cinetic Media Six years after What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? the Italian director Roberto Minervini is back behind the camera with a feature film set during the American Civil War. In 1862, a battalion of volunteers from the Union Army was sent to the uncharted lands of the West…

NYFF / Hard Truth : Q&A With Actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Actor Tuwaine Barrett and Director Mike Leigh

Hard Truth : Legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh returns to the contemporary world with a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous study of family and the thorny ties that bind us. Reunited with Leigh for the first time since multiple Oscar-nominated Secrets and Lies, the astonishing Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays Pansy, a woman wracked by fear, tormented…