A review of Joel Souza’s Crown Vic for The New York Times
Category: film & tv
the film comment podcast: ritwik ghatak and vetri maaran
I guest-hosted a special two-part episode of The Film Comment Podcast, dedicated to a pair of Indian filmmakers: Bengali maestro Ritwik Ghatak, and Tamil writer-director Vetri Maaran
life’s work
An in-depth interview with Greta Gerwig about her triumphant new adaptation of Little Women, which graces the cover of the Nov-Dec ’19 issue of Film Comment
the film comment podcast: kleber mendonça filho & juliano dornelles
I joined FC Editor-in-Chief Nicolas Rapold to chat with the directors of Bacurau about five key scenes from their thrilling class-warfare satire
brazil in a black mirror: how “bacurau” turns the western on its head
Directors Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles explain the eerie prescience of their genre-bending thriller in which the cowboys are the Indians and the Indians are the cowboys.
the film comment podcast: state of the nation
I was a panelist on Film Comment’s first NYFF57 talk, on the complex interplay between politics and cinema
women making film at toronto 2019
Women of the world, take over: this year’s festival featured bracing, inspired films by up-and-coming women directors from all over the world
interview: rabah ameur-zaïmeche
Here, there, and everywhere: the director of Terminal Sud discusses the universal resonances of his elliptical French-Algerian thriller
toronto dispatch: marriage story
Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story more compelling as an account not of love, but of its absorption into the language of law
the film comment podcast: toronto 2019 #2
I appeared on The Film Comment Podcast to discuss more movies from Toronto 2019, including Lina from Lima, Synonyms, Terminal Sud, and more
