New York Film Festival 2020
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Nomadland, Beginning and Slow Machine: The 2020 New York Film Festival
A glance back at the economic suffering of the post-crash Obama era that feels barely a day removed from the nation’s present multitude of crises, Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland is much more existential road movie than social tract. While it communicates something newsy about the pitiful state of things for the American worker, the story tracks an introspective quest, dramatized against the splendiferous, wide-open horizons of the American West. The odyssey of a Nevada woman who loses her home and takes to the road after the closing of her town’s gypsum mine, the film fits loosely into a body of work […]
by Steve Dollar on Oct 12, 2020 -
12 Films Not To Miss at the 2020 New York Film Festival
I’m not going to deny it — the dip in New York’s temperature signifying the approach of Fall coupled with the migration of the New York Film Festival from Lincoln Center to my Lower East Side living room has left me melancholy. Other out-of-town festivals I might have skipped this year, but there hasn’t been a New York Film Festival in 30 years that I haven’t attended at least a few screenings, to say nothing of the associated parties and events. But while I’m missing the casual encounters in the lobbies, the spotlight that shines on the film teams post-screening […]
by Scott Macaulay on Sep 17, 2020 -
Steve McQueen, Chloe Zhao, Garrett Bradley, Azazel Jacobs and More: The New York Film Festival Announces its 2020 Main Slate
The New York Film Festival announced today the 25 films from 19 countries that comprise its 2020 Main Slate. “The disorientation and uncertainty of this tough year had the effect of returning us to core principles,” said Dennis Lim, Director of Programming for NYFF, in a press release. “To put it simply, the Main Slate is our collective response to one central question: which films matter to us right now? Movies are neither made nor experienced in a vacuum, and while the works in our program predate the current moment of crisis, it’s striking to me just how many of them […]
by Scott Macaulay on Aug 13, 2020
