NYFF Collection
2024 Ranked
A24 Ranked
Actually Believable NYC Apartments
NYFF 62 #12 - US Premiere - 35mm
Introduction by Matt Bolish
2nd masterpiece of the festival. Very cool to watch this on the original 35mm reels, developed before A24 could be listed as the distributor.
The Brutalist, in many ways, is unexpected. Having now seen The Childhood of a Leader and Vox Lux, I went in expecting the loud, grandiose ambition that Brady Corbet and his partner Mona Fastvold brought…
NYFF 62 #6 - North American Premiere
Introduction by Dennis Lim and Alex Ross Perry, ft. Zoe Lister-Jones, Kathryn Gallagher, Michael Esper, Fred Hechinger, and Logan Miller.
Q&A w/ Alex Ross Perry, Robert Greene, and Pavement (and Sunday Malkmus)
Oh hell yeah. Now THIS is what NYFF is made for!
It’s interesting to see this and Emilia Pérez on back-to-back nights because they both share a sense of chaos, but where Alex Ross Perry’s Pavements succeeds and Emilia Pérez fails…
First movie at the Neue Galerie Filmbar! What a wonderful program - free pretzels and beer in a cozy little screening. Curated for the series “Everyday Echoes: Iconic Films of the Neue Sachlichkeit” which looks at films depicting events and circumstances experienced by the common man during the Weimar Republic.
The Last Laugh tells the story of a proud, aging hotel doorman who shows up to work one day having been replaced by a much younger man. Our hero is demoted…
My last contender this year for the Oscars, finishing what I’ve come to learn is a “Oscar Death Race” hours before the ceremony. Going 6 years strong!
Magnus von Horn’s The Girl with the Needle is a dark and dreary tale of a woman named Karoline living in Denmark during WWI who, let’s just say, quickly has everything going wrong.
The first thing I want to see is I really did not like the cinematography. It was so clearly…
Cha Cha Real Smooth cements Cooper Raiff as a Hollywood hack with a savior complex. Having upped his budget with a much better production team after Shithouse, he’s now able to hide his shallow and problematic screenplay under layers of good production value, smart editing, and charm. But you didn’t fool me, Raiff!
Just like Shithouse, the story follows an awkward and overly “nice” teenage boy that becomes fixated on having a relationship with a broken woman. It’s basically Manic…
As reviews begin to pour out and screenings open up, I'm going to take this moment to climb up on my hill, plant my flag, and shout from the mountaintop:
DAMIEN CHAZELLE IS A HACK AND BABYLON IS DISGUSTING, EXPLOITIVE TRASH!
Babylon is so juvenile and narcissistic. He spends over three hours (!!!) exploring the horrors of Hollywood history all the while completely undoing any point that he's trying to make by glamorizing every inch of this self-indulgent…
