New York Film Festival: Top Films and Coverage Roundup

A listing of our coverage of the 2020 New York Film Festival, including favorite films.
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Time (dir. Garrett Bradley)

TOP PICKS

DOUG DIBBERN

1. Time (Garrett Bradley)

2. Days (Tsai Ming-liang)

3. Gunda (Viktor Kossakovsky)

4. The Woman Who Ran (Hong Sang-Soo)

5. The Disciple (Chaitanya Tamhane)

6. The Salt of Tears (Philippe Garrel)

7. Red, White and Blue (Steve McQueen)

8. The Calming (Song Fang)

9. Night of Kings (Philippe Lacôte)

10. Malmkrog (Cristi Puiu)

DANIEL KASMAN

1. Figure Minus Fact (Mary Helena Clark)

2. Her Socialist Smile (John Gianvito)

3. UNTITLED SEQUENCE OF GAPS (Vika Kirchenbauer)

4. Labor of Love (Sylvia Schedelbauer)

5. Beginning (Dea Kulumbegashvili)

6. The Disciple (Chaitanya Tamhane)

7. Red, White and Blue (Steve McQueen)

8. Isabella (Matías Piñeiro)

9. The Calming (Song Fang)

10. Humongous! (Aya Kawazoe)

MICHAEL SICINSKI

1. Figure Minus Fact (Mary Helena Clark)

2. Lovers Rock (Steve McQueen)

3. Her Socialist Smile (John Gianvito)

4. The Inheritance (Ephraim Asili)

5. Apiyemiyeki? (Ana Vaz)

6. The Human Voice (Pedro Almodóvar)

7. Time (Garrett Bradley)

8. Isabella (Matías Piñeiro)

9. The Last City (Heinz Emigholz)

10. Trust Study #1 (Shobun Baile)

CORREPONDENCES

#1 Daniel Kasman introduces the 2020 festival and reviews Lovers Rock (Steve McQueen) | Read

#2 Doug Dibbern reviews The Monopoly of Violence (David Dufresne) and MLK/FBI (Sam Pollard) | Read

#3 Daniel Kasman reviews MLK/FBI (Sam Pollard), The Calming (Song Fang), and Beginning (Dea Kulumbegashvili) | Read

#4 Doug Dibbern reviews Gunda (Viktor Kossakovsky) and Days (Tsai Ming-liang) | Read

#5 Daniel Kasman reviews The Human Voice (Pedro Almodóvar), On The Rocks (Sofia Coppola), and Mangrove (Steve McQueen) | Read

#6 Doug Dibbern reviews French Exit (Azazel Jacobs) and Red, White and Blue (Steve McQueen) | Read

COVERAGE

An Eventful Year: Short film highlights from the Currents section

by Michael Sicinski

Alternating Currents: The first of two discussions of the feature films in Currents section

by Michael Sicinski

Gently Download the Stream: The second discussion of the feature films in the Currents section

by Michael Sicinski

The Archeology of Black Thought: Ephraim Asili Discusses The Inheritance

by Ella Bittencourt

Living in Color: A Dialogue on Hong Sang-soo's The Woman Who Ran

by Sean Gilman and Evan Morgan

Daydream Nation: Luis López Carrasco on The Year of the Discovery

by Jordan Cronk

Retelling Stories: Jia Zhangke on Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue

by Darren Hughes

Waiting for the Miracle: Dea Kulumbegashvili Discusses Beginning

by Daniel Kasman

Searching for the Truth: Chaitanya Tamhane on The Disciple

by Leonardo Goi


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