New York Film Festival 2011: First Highlights
Surely it’s a good sign that the Lincoln Center Film Society seems to be shaking things up a bit with this year’s festival. In part because of the new venues[…]
Author: Megan Ratner
Megan Ratner's work has appeared in Film Quarterly, Cineaste, Filmmaker, The New York Times, Film Comment, and Frieze. 
Directors · Festivals & Awards
A Handful of Keepers: The 40th New Directors/New Films Festival
“Kudos to the Vegas for showing not only the grimness of hustling, but also the ordinariness. As Clemente dresses, his middle-aged, matronly partner puts on her reading glasses to count the cash.”
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Documentaries · Festivals & Awards
Werner Herzog & Errol Morris Headline DOC NYC Fest at IFC Center
DOC NYC, a new documentary festival that runs from November 3-9, features more than 40 films, U.S. premieres, tributes, and appearances, among them both Errol Morris and Werner Herzog. Films[…]
Heavy Hitter in a Delicate Balance: The 48th New York Film Festival
Despite concessions to commerce, much to admire
Documentaries · Festivals & Awards
Illuminating the Interior: The DOC NYC Festival Debut
Boasting Werner Herzog and Errol Morris, fest sets a high standard
Tout Ne Va Pas Bien: Rendez-vous with French Cinema 2010
“Vestiges of French customs and family life remain throughout these films, yet their concerns testify to a rapidly shifting society.”
Well-adapted: Anton Chekhov’s The Duel
In this nimble version of Anton Chekhov’s eponymous short story, aristocrat Ivan Laevsky (Andrew Scott), and his married mistress Nadya (Fiona Glascott) have decamped from Moscow to the Black Sea.[…]
Look of Love: The Secret in Their Eyes
Recently retired law clerk Benjamin Esposito (Ricardo DarÃn) can’t shake the memory of the 1974 Morales rape and murder case. Never mind that 25 years have passed: for Benjamin, the[…]
New Directors / New Films 2010
The unpredictable, occasionally thrilling New Directors / New Films fest opens in New York City today. Locals are, of course, the immediate beneficiaries of this annual collaboration between the Film[…]
Profondamente Italiano: Mid-August Lunch (Pranzo di Ferragosto)
If you want an idea of real Roman life, look no further than Mid-August Lunch (2008). Gianni (Gianni Di Gregorio, who directed, scripted and stars) and his 93-year-old mother Valeria[…]
Bucking the Tide: The 2009 New York Film Festival
This year’s strong, idiosyncratic line-up reminds us that moviegoing can still be more than “a museum experience”
Deep and Wide: The 2008 American Film Institute Festival
A sampling of the best of the fest’s international offerings
Getting Better All the Time: The 2008 Tribeca Film Festival
But lose the red carpet
Plus Ça Change: The 2008 Rendez-vous with French Cinema
Gingerly moving out of the 20th century, not quite into the 21st
Stunted Lives: On 4 Months, 3 Weeks, & 2 Days
Unsettling and unmissable
Safety First: The 45th New York Film Festival
The 2007 NYFF’s more cautious than courageous this year For a long time, the New York Film Festival was the inarguable heavyweight in town, practically on a direct feed from[…]
Movin’ On Up: The 2007 Tribeca Film Festival
From neighborhood festival to NYC player There’s no denying the buzz of New York’s Tribeca Film Festival, a 12-day extravaganza spread out among 13 venues. Out in force at the[…]
Documentaries · Genres · Movies · Reviews
Treed by the Family: On 51 Birch Street
For boomers, “the idea that Mom and Dad are flawed human beings with complicated histories and real feelings can be hard to accept.” The straight out of a first-grade primer[…]
Less Is Less: The 44th New York Film Festival
Past trumps present in this unremarkable fest If, as proclaimed by its director Richard Peña, the New York Film Festival is a “kind of report on the state of cinema,”[…]
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