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Episode 1
Reducing Bertrand Bonello’s Nocturama to a straightforward psychological reading barely scratches the surface—which is exactly what makes the film a …
9 years, 1 month ago
Jeanne Moreau
Episode 1
In memory of Jeanne Moreau (1928-2017), this week’s podcast offers up a selection of previously unreleased interviews with the legendary actress and …
9 years, 1 month ago
Summer of ’77
Episode 1
“What holds the movies of 1977 together beyond a coincidence of the calendar?” asks J.D. Connor, writing on the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s ’77 …
9 years, 2 months ago
Yvonne Rainer
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“Championed by Annette Michelson, B. Ruby Rich, and many others, [Yvonne] Rainer’s films are densely verbose, elusive, dryly comic, furious, fracture…
9 years, 2 months ago
Good Time
Episode 1
As Eric Hynes wrote in the cover story of our July/August issue, “At their best, the Safdies’ films don’t just mooch off the city’s story surplus—the…
9 years, 2 months ago
Location, Location, Location
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Plenty of films open with an establishing shot of a city's iconic skyline, or of a few iconic barns, only to go on and use the location as an anonymo…
9 years, 2 months ago
Wanda. Woman.
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As David Thomson succinctly puts it in the July/August issue, "Wanda is the kind of person who didn’t and still doesn’t get into American movies (unl…
9 years, 3 months ago
Independents Day
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What do we talk about when we talk about independent film? At various points it’s referred to a freedom of style, or it’s been shorthand for a low-bu…
9 years, 3 months ago
Bad Scenes in Good Movies, Good Scenes in Bad Movies
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We expect that discrete scenes will play off of one another to create any given feature film, but what happens when one of these moments tugs the nar…
9 years, 3 months ago
Streaming vs. Theatrical
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Having programmed two high-profile Netflix premieres, Bong Joon Ho’s Okja and Noah Baumbach’s The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), in the main …
9 years, 3 months ago