The NYFF officially kicked off this year’s fest with the premiere of David Fincher’s Gone Girl, but as soon as that ended everyone’s excitement rapidly turned to the secret screening. In the... Read more
One of the few films I got to see at this year’s NYFF was Bennett Miller’s (Moneyball, Capote) Foxcatcher, a biographical sports drama that’s incredibly eerie and wonderfully gripping. The... Read more
What exactly is Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) from director Alejandro González Iñárritu? Is it a parody of superhero films? Is it a study of the mental state of a successfu... Read more
Red Army opens with an old clip of a pre-presidential Ronald Reagan speaking about the threat of the communist Soviet Union. It serves as a perfect introduction to this documentary, which te... Read more
I can’t believe it’s been two years since a Paul Thomas Anderson movie has been released. The American auteur has diligently been working hard on his new film Inherent Vice, an adaptation of... Read more
There are few films featured in the lineup of the New York Film Festival this year that come to the festival with heaps of praise already. Leading the pack is Whiplash, which has wowed audie... Read more
[Because so much of the impact of Gone Girl is based on its plot twists, I will refrain from spoiling anything that has to do with the major plot twists.] Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) is an out-... Read more
There are few directors in history who were so gifted that they made one masterpiece film after another. One of those directors was the legendary Sergio Leone, who is best known for directin... Read more
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