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Filmleaf coverage of the 2018 New York Film Festival. Links to Reviews: Asako I & II/寝ても覚めても (Ryūsuke Hamaguchi 2018) Ash Is Purest...

TRANSIT (Christian Petzold 2018) Petzold's eccentric version of Anna Seghers' German 1942 novel about entanglements of refuges in Marseille...

ASAKO I & II (Ryosuke Hamaguchi 2018) Hamaguchi's story about a young woman torn between two identical men, a dashing wild one and a practical...

ASH IS PUREST WHITE (Jia Zhang-ke 2018) A very impressive reworking of romantic themes from Jis's earlier Unknown Pleasures and Still Life, always...

FREDEICK WISEMAN: MONROVIA, INDIANA (2018) What is happening here? The 88-year-old master of meticulous observation turns his attention to...

ROMA (Alfonso Cuarón 2018). NYFF. His B&W autobiographical study of a bourgeois family coming apart in 1970-71 and their maid, in the Mexico City...

A FAITHFUL MAN/L'HOMME FIDÈLE (Louis Garrel 2018) Garrel's second outing as director (and star) throws caution to the winds and freely adopts...

HIGH LIFE (Claire Denis 2018) Her first sci-fi film and first in English stars Juliette Binoche and Robert Pattinson, with squalling babies in...

An introduction to the 56th NYFF from A.O. Scott of the New York Times Read it here: CLICK. A quote. Why should people attend this festival?...

A traumatic early scene in Never Look Away Preview: a fine new German film (not in the festival) Never Look Away (Florian Henckel von...

BURNING / 버닝 (Lee Chang-dong 2018) Sexual frustration, class, mystery, envy and revenge in a masterful spinoff of a 1992 Haruki Murakami story...

A FAMILY TOUR (Ying Liang 2018) Things have changed since I watched Ying's mini-budget Taking Father Home with Travis Kirby in 2006 and Travis...

NON-FICTION/DOUBLES VIES (Olivier Assayas 2018). A witty, fast-paced, smartly edited incarnation of traditional French farce, focused on two...

PRIVATE LIFE (Tamara Jenkins 2018). Eleven years since Jenkins' last film, Savages, this one seems still focused on the narrow aim of...

Click here for thumbnail New York Movie journal revies of five more NYFF Main Slate films: Tamara Jenkins' Private Life,, Olivier Assayas'...

PRIVATE LIFE (Tamara Jenkins 2018). This satirical picture of a very bourgeois hip white middle-aged couple's dogged but unsuccessful effort to...

SORRY ANGEL/PLAURE, AIMER ET COURIR VITE (Christophe Honoré 2018). NYFF. From Competition Cannes and immediate Paris release to raves (AlloCiné...

A new press release about a surprise NYFF screening: Jonah Hill's directorial debut feature.

SORRY ANGEL/PLAIRE, AIMER, ET COURIR VITE (Christophe Honoré 2018) In a coming of age epic Honoré for the first time (in his eleventh feature)...

JANE FONDA IN FIVE ACTS (Susan Field 2018). New comprehensive HBO doc about this impressive but flawed and vulnerable woman. I feel I know most of...

MARK BOZAK: THE TIMES OF BILL CUNNINGHAM (2018) More details about the ultimate street recorder of New York fashion This film is entirely...

CHRISTIAN PETZOLD: TRANSIT (2018) PAULA BEER AND FRANZ ROGOWSKI IN TRANSIT Loneliness, fear, loss, alienation, suicide, fluid identity in...

RYUSUKE HAMAGUCHI: ASAKO I & II/寝ても覚めても NETEMO SANTEMO ("At all hours") (2018) ERIKA KARATA AND MASAHIRO HIGASHIDE IN ASAKO I & II Wavering...

About the poster. It resulted from a spontaneous collaboration between the cinematographer Ed Lachman (left), a regular at Film Society of Lincoln...

The FSLC poster for NYFF 56. 2018 NYFF Festival Coverage Thread