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Film Reviews: Escaping Putin’s Russia, Serving Vichy France — Three Films at the New York Film Festival

October 18, 2026
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Julia Loktev’s six-hour portrait of exiled TV Rain journalists headlined a festival program along with a tale set in Andrey Zvyagintsev’s corrupt provincial Russia and Emmanuel Marre’s understated study of collaboration under Nazi occupation.

At the New York Film Festival – Journalists Flee Russia, a Would-Be Assassin Talks, and New York Circa 1965, Aglow in Beatlemania

October 18, 2024
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Three fine documentaries at the NYFF: two delved into political matters, the third looked around New York City in 1965.

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