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Elliot Tuttle: interview
A gay guy in his prime. Is there anything more dangerous? Elliot Tuttle stands outside the grand SVA Theatre, wearing a glitzy black top and holding a pack of American Spirits, having his ear talked off by two NYU students. He just attended the North American premiere of Blue Film…
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Katarina Zhu: Interview
Katarina Zhu is a director, actor, and an alum of NYU Tisch that we are very proud to claim. Premiering at Sundance 2025, her debut feature Bunnylovr follows an often-dissociating cam girl (Rebecca, played by Zhu herself) as she struggles to rekindle the relationship with her dying father. At the…
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Chandler Levack (Mile End Kicks): Interview
At the turn of the century, Cameron Crowe’s autobiographical film about a young rock critic in 1970s San Diego, Almost Famous, was released in theatres to little fanfare, despite critical praise. Much like the fabled debut by The Velvet Underground, it feels like everyone who did see the movie turned…
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“There’s No Shame in It”: Dominic Hicks on Opening London’s Sleaziest Cinema
It’s movie night in New York City but all there is to see is your third viewing of Chungking Express at the Metrograph, or, if you’re feeling even crazier, a midnight screening at the IFC Center that, half-stoned, you will fall asleep in. Is there really nowhere in the world…
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Alireza Khatami: Interview
Well before The Things You Kill reaches its first act of violence, something far more unsettling has already begun to take shape. The universe of Alireza Khatami’s new film feels quietly askew. When a university professor returns home after his mother’s sudden death, he steps into a landscape clogged with…
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“We Had to Search for a Truer Self”: Jia Zhangke on the 22-year-long Journey towards Caught by the Tides
Jia Zhangke operates with the kind of precise and spontaneous patience of a fly on the wall of an archeological dig. Zhangke, born amid the reforms of the 1970s, came to prominence as a part of the “Sixth Generation” of directors in China’s post-socialist period; his films, often made without…
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“Reproducing life as it is—I was never interested in that”: An Interview with Alain Guiraudie (STATIC @ NYFF)
Alain Guiraudie’s breakout film Stranger by the Lake was all about murder and sex. His latest Misericordia is all about murder and the absence of sex. But the lack of anything explicit is somehow more titillating, making brawls between men ooze big-time sensuality. “I work on love scenes and fight…
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Sean Wang, “DIDI (弟弟)”: Interview
Of all the facets of adolescence in the digital age DIDI 弟弟 captures impeccably, the total blank stare on Chris’ (Isaac Wang) face as he scrolls through MySpace and AoL is quietly the most genius. Even in reaction to risky texts and awful updates, his eyes and face sit motionless, illuminated…
