New York Film Festival 2016
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Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker on Their Noir-ish Stasi Doc, Karl Marx City
Now playing in New York at Film Forum, Karl Marx City, Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker’s follow-up to 2013’s The Flag. An entirely different meditation on national identity, in Karl Marx City Epperlein — who emigrated to the States following the collapse of the Berlin Wall — travels back to her East German homeland, and the film follows her as she attempts to discover the reason for her father’s suicide in 1999. Evidence that he may have been a Stasi informant deepens the urgency of her journey, with a visit to the Stasi archives revealing thousands of hours of footage, somewhere in […]
by Scott Macaulay on Mar 31, 2017 -
Things to Come Writer/Director Mia Hansen-Løve on Pain, Acting, and Embracing Complexity
After winning the Silver Bear for Best Director earlier this year at her world premiere in Berlin’s 66th International Film Festival, Mia Hansen-Løve brings her latest picture, Things to Come, to the New York Film Festival’s main competition slate on October 14th. Starring Isabelle Huppert in an arresting performance as Nathalie, a Parisian philosophy professor, Hansen-Løve’s film follows Nathalie as she picks up the pieces of her life even as it is disassembling. While her mother is sick, her job is compromised, and her husband is leaving her, Nathalie forges ahead, carving a new, albeit unfamiliar course for her future. In […]
by Taylor Hess on Oct 13, 2016 -
54th New York Film Festival (NYFF) Announces 2016 Main Slate
Fresh from Lincoln Center, here’s the line-up for the main slate of this year’s New York Film Festival. Amid the usual set of heavy-duty auteurs’ latest works (Jim Jarmusch, Olivier Assayas, the Dardennes, Kelly Reichardt et al.), there are a few outliers as usual, including Dash Shaw’s My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea, which will premiere at this year’s TIFF. NYFF runs from September 30-October 16, kicking off with the world premiere of Ava DuVernay’s new documentary The 13th and closing with another high-profile world premiere, James Gray’s The Lost City of Z. Opening Night The 13th Directed by Ava DuVernay […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Aug 9, 2016
