Joachim Trier stakes his claim as a master of modern social cinema.
At the red carpet event of the film No Other Choice, at the New York Film Festival 2025, I got the opportunity to talk to Park Chan-wook and main star Lee Byung-hun about the genre-bending masterpiece they had created.
Park Chan-wookβs No Other Choice is a darkly comic and visually stunning thriller about a laid-off paper factory worker whose desperate fight to preserve his identity spirals into absurd violence and moral collapse. By far my favorite film at NYFF 2025, it cements the South Korean film industry as a new behemoth not only in commercial success, but critical as well.
“Father Mother Sister Brother” brought a plethora of interesting and complicated family dynamics to the New York Film Festival!
“We shot some stuff that we stole going up the West Side Highway. I don’t know if there’s any cops here,” Will Arnett told the audience following a press and industry screening of Is This Thing On? at the New York Film Festival,Β “But one point we’re driving up the West Side Highway and Bradley’s on the dash shooting me…and I’m like ‘cop, cop, cop!'”
Stepping onto the red carpet at the 2025 New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center, I had the opportunity to interview the cast and several members of the creative team behind this yearβs Sentimental Value, a film by Joachim Trier.
Netflix’s moving film Jay Kelly, starring George Clooney and Adam Sandler, premiered at the New York Film Festival.
“How many people are in therapy?” Rebecca Zlotowski asked the audience, following the premiere ofΒ “A Private Life,” prompting hand raises and knowing laughter.
Not every music biopic needs to chronicle an entire life, and Scott Cooperβs Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere doesnβt attempt to depict The Boss in such a way. Bruce Springsteenβs catapult to fame? Skipped over. Instead, the film trades Springsteenβs hits for the moodier tracks of his sixth studio album, Nebraska. With a focus on this particular chapter of his life, the film sidesteps some biopic clichΓ©s β only to trip over others.
Ethan Hawke, Andrew Scott, and Bobby Cannavale attended the premiere of Richard Linklaterβs new drama βBlue Moonβ at the 63rd New York Film Festival on Monday.
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