Film
Director Hal Hartley is an old-school romantic, one who sees human frailty and longing not as invitations to despair but as reasons to take part in the joy of living.
In “Nouvelle Vague,” director Richard Linklater thrillingly captures the sense of Jean-Luc Godard as an artist feeling his way in real time, as if in a dark room, toward a new vision.
Three powerful films at NYFF about violence, survival, and revenge.
“If I Had Legs I’d Kick You: is a powerful addition to the recent female-created examinations of the ways women, and particularly mothers, can be unsupported or outright dismissed by contemporary society.
Maybe “A House of Dynamite” wants to tantalize us with a nightmare from which there is no escape in order to distract us, briefly, from the ongoing disasters that we are compelled to face and overcome.
Director Raoul Peck, like his subject George Orwell, encourages critical thinking and urges us to consider how best to resist the strengthening forces of tyranny.
“Nuns vs. The Vatican” prepares its audience for an ongoing story that is expanding each time one more victim agrees to talk publicly. Do not doubt that there will be a sequel.
Tron: Ares hurries from one spectacular concept and one spectacular set piece to another. But it doesn’t take the time to let any of those remarkable things sink in.
“Father Mother Sister Brother” invites you into a space of present-ness where you need to slow down and re-set your metabolism. It invites you to tune out all the noise and sit with the silences between people. A daring ask in a digital world where everyone’s glued to their screens the better to pick up the noise.
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