In her fourth and final post on the 2015 New York Film Festival, Martha Nochimson talks about loss as an organizing principle for Michael Moore's documentary Where to Invade Next and Don Cheadle's biopic Miles Ahead.
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New York Film Festival 2015 Part Four: Reclamation
New York Film Festival 2015 Part Three: Only Connect?
In part three of her series on the 2015 New York Film Festival, Martha Nochimson explores the thematic significance of connection in Jia Zhang-ke's Mountains May Depart, James D. Solomon's The Witness, and Stephane Brizé's Measure of a Man.
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New York Film Festival 2015 Part Two: The Banality of . . .
Post by Martha P. Nochimson, Critic William Wordsworth made us believe in the ecstasy of the humble daffodil. Hannah Arendt isolated the potential for evil in the ordinary acts of people doing the business of their society. There is a long history that affirms that banality isn’t banal, for better and for worse. Three...
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New York Film Festival 2015 Part One: Schrodinger’s Cinema
In the first installment of a four-part series on the 2015 New York Film Festival, Martha P. Nochimson argues that Kyoshi Kurosawa's Journey to the Shore and Miguel Gomes' Arabian Nights trilogy dissolve the boundaries between life and death, then and now, and here and there.
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New York Film Festival 2014, Part Four: The Reel Deal
This series on the NYFF52 concludes with consideration for Foxcatcher, Tales of the Grim Sleeper, and Clouds of Sils Maria.
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New York Film Festival 2014, Part Three: Men
In part three of the NYFF52 series, interesting masculinities are explored in Gabe Polsky's documentary Red Army, Mike Leigh’s biopic Mr. Turner, and Mathieu Amalric’s feature The Blue Room.
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New York Film Festival, 2014, Part Two: Explicitly, Sex
Part two of this series on the 52nd New York Film Festival focuses on Alain Resnais' Life of Riley, David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars, and Abel Ferrera's Pasolini.
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New York Film Festival, 2014, Part One: Small Marvels
This year a number of the initial screenings have left me wondering whether they can conceivably get any better.
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NYFF51: Made for Each Other? [Part 4]
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In the final installment of this four-part series, love is the theme shared between Spike Jonze's HER, Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive, and Ralph Fiennes' The Invisible Woman.
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NYFF51: The Myth of the Individual [Part 3]
Steve McQueen's vision of the invention of slavery in 12 Years a Slave complements J.C. Chandor's image of the fantasy of a heroic white elite in All is Lost.
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NYFF51: Darkness Falls on the City [Part 2]
In A Touch of Sin, director Jia Zhang-ke continues to address the wounds inflicted by Mao's Cultural Revolution on historical continuity and individuals' self-worth in contemporary China.
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NYFF51: Darkness Falls on the City [Part 1]
The first installment of a series on the NYFF considers films that radically push cinematic limits: James Franco's Child of God and Catherine Breillat's Abuse of Weakness.
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NYFF 2012: We Say That God and the Imagination Are One [Part Four]
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Our fourth, and final collaboration with the Society for Cinema & Media Studies to review the New York Film Festival concludes with a discussion of Amor, Night Across the Street, and Holy Motors.
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NYFF 2012: History Has Many Cunning Passages [Part Three]
Our third post on New York Film Festival 2012 is a collaboration with the Society for Cineman & Media Studies, and reviews three films from the festival: NO, Ginger and Rosa, and Not Fade Away.
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NYFF 2012: IN A MELLOW MOOD [Part Two]
Taking on selections from this year's New York Film Festival.
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