Isaac Feldberg
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In the Name of Friendship: Matthew Rankin on “Universal Language” | Interviews

As disorienting as it is delightful, Matthew Rankin’s “Universal Language” takes its avant-garde filmmaker’s irreverent approach to history—previously on display in “The Twentieth

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The Trauma of Inevitability: Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold on “The Brutalist” | Interviews

An epic saga of assimilation, architecture, and the artist’s struggle to endure, Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist” tells the story of László Tóth (Adrien

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Dream of Death: Robert Eggers on “Nosferatu” | Interviews

Death and desire collide with seductive, shivering power in Robert Eggers’ “Nosferatu,” a grandly Gothic reinterpretation of F.W. Murnau’s silent-film classic that channels

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Love Is Political: Payal Kapadia on “All We Imagine as Light” | Interviews

Across the two features she’s made to date, Payal Kapadia has emerged as a luminous new voice in Indian cinema, exploring the personal

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NYFF 2024: Little, Big, and Far, Lázaro at Night, 7 Walks with Mark Brown  | Festivals & Awards

Presented in the New York Film Festival’s Currents section, a complement to the main-slate selection that traces “a more complete picture of contemporary

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Fight or Flight: Jeremy Saulnier on Rebel Ridge | Interviews

A ferociously satisfying update of “First Blood” with a rustic Southern setting, “Rebel Ridge” furthers writer-director Jeremy Saulnier’s pattern of trapping his protagonists

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​Subjective Reality: Larry Fessenden on Crumb Catcher, Blackout, and Glass Eye Pix

As the founder of Glass Eye Pix, writer-director Larry Fessenden has spent nearly four decades carving out a fiercely independent niche in American

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Cannes 2024: Ghost Trail, Block Pass | Festivals & Awards

Set against the steadily revving engines and propulsive forward motion of the French motocross scene, Antoine Chevrollier’s feature debut “Block Pass” is a

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Cannes 2024: Armand, The Kingdom, September Says

Away from the pandemonium of the Croisette and the festival’s main competition, Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section offers a consistently diverting showcase for

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Triage Is a Huge Part of Filmmaking: Laura Moss on Birth/Rebirth | Interviews

Still, “birth/rebirth” is in no way an adaptation of the novel. I haven’t seen a faithful adaptation of the novel yet. With a

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