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Two Highlights From the New York Film Festival Main Slate

October 16, 2026October 15, 2026 Kenji Fujishima 0 Comments 8 1 2, Adam Driver, Aftersun, Alice Bailey Johnson, All of a Sudden, Andor, art and empathy, arthouse cinema, Birgit Minichmayr, British cinema, Cannes Film Festival, capitalism, Carlos Reygadas, Charlotte Wells, dementia, Drive My Car, elder care, Emeric Pressburger, Everytime, experimental cinema, Federico Fellini, female friendship, Film at Lincoln Center, film criticism, film scores, French cinema, Gone to Earth, Gregory Oke, grief, Hard Truths, Heil Jupiter!, James Gray, Japanese cinema, JoBeth Williams, Kate OFlynn, Marion Bailey, Michael Clayton, Michael Powell, Mike Leigh, Miles Teller, mortality, movie reviews, New York Film Festival, New York Film Festival 2026, nursing homes, NYFF 2026, Paul Jesson, Pedro Pascal, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, social realism, social workers, surrealism, Tao Okamoto, Tender Loving Care, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival, Virginie Efira, Widow's Bay

The probable last film from a British legend and the latest work from a Japanese master brightened this year’s edition of this festival of festivals.

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Two Disappointments in the New York Film Festival Main Slate

October 15, 2026October 19, 2026 Kenji Fujishima 0 Comments 8 1 2, Adam Driver, Aftersun, Andor, arthouse cinema, Behemoth!, Birgit Minichmayr, Cannes Film Festival, Carlos Reygadas, Charlotte Wells, classical music, Emeric Pressburger, Eva Victor, Everytime, experimental cinema, Federico Fellini, Film at Lincoln Center, film criticism, film scores, Gone to Earth, Gregory Oke, grief, Heil Jupiter!, James Gray, JoBeth Williams, Michael Clayton, Michael Powell, Miles Teller, movie reviews, New York Film Festival, New York Film Festival 2026, NYFF 2026, Olivia Wilde, Paper Tiger, Pedro Pascal, Sandra Wollner, Scarlett Johansson, surrealism, TIFF, Tony Gilroy, Toronto International Film Festival, Will Arnett

Pre-festival hype and even stars like Pedro Pascal and Olivia Wilde don’t always satisfy

Unexpected Gems From the New York Film Festival

October 14, 2026 Kaveh Jalinous 0 Comments arthouse cinema, Arundhati Roy, China, Currents, documentary, Éric Baudelaire, experimental cinema, Film at Lincoln Center, Film festival, For the Moon, Goodbye South Goodbye, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones, Kinmen, Luise Donschen, movie reviews, National Institute for Blind Youth, New York Film Festival, NYFF, Overt Listening, Pradip Krishen, restored films, Revivals, Taiwan, Tiffany Sia, Tomorrow a Long Time Ago, world cinema

From avant-garde documentaries to restored classics, the festival’s deepest cuts were among its finest.

‘The Stranger’ Turns Existentialism Into Something Dangerous

April 26, 2026 Neal Pollack 3 Comments absurdism, Albert Camus, Algiers 1930s, arthouse cinema, Benjamin Voisin, best films 2026, black and white film, book adaptation, Camus adaptation, classic literature, colonial history, colonialism, culture criticism, existential philosophy, existentialism, film adaptation, film criticism, film reviews, foreign film, François Ozon, French Algeria, French cinema, French New Wave, Italian neorealism, Jean-Paul Sartre, media analysis, Meursault, movie reviews, Orson Welles adaptation, philosophy in film, Pierre Lottin, postcolonial themes, race and identity, Rebecca Marder, The Cure Killing an Arab, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Stranger, violence and morality

François Ozon’s elegant Camus adaptation finds new urgency in colonial Algiers

‘City Wide Fever’ Is a Love Letter to Giallo

April 16, 2026April 16, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments Alamo Drafthouse, analog film, arthouse cinema, auteur cinema, City Wide Fever, cult film, Dario Argento, Diletta Guglielmi, experimental film, film review, giallo, giallo films, horror movies, Ian Fidance, independent film, Indie Horror, Italian horror, Josh Heaps, Mario Bava, midnight movie, surreal cinema

A unique homage to Italian horror hits theater screens

Everything You Need to Know for the Oscars Tonight

March 15, 2026March 15, 2026 Dan Friedman 0 Comments Academy Awards, arthouse cinema, awards preview, Awards Season, Best Picture, Book and Film Globe, Bugonia, Chloé Zhao, cinema, Emma Stone, Film Awards, film criticism, film industry, genre film, Hamnet, Hollywood, independent film, Jesse Plemons, Jessie Buckley, movie awards, Oscars, Oscars 2026, Paul Mescal, Ryan Coogler, Sinners, Yorgos Lanthimos

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Two Disappointments in the New York Film Festival Main Slate

October 15, 2026October 19, 2026 Kenji Fujishima 0

Pre-festival hype and even stars like Pedro Pascal and Olivia Wilde don’t always satisfy

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October 13, 2026October 19, 2026 Robert Dean 0

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‘Colossus’ the Film that Foretold the AI War

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