Festivals & Awards
NYFF 2022: No Bears, R.M.N., All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
On three films that played at NYFF from legendary directors: Jafar Panahi, Cristian Mungiu, and Laura Poitras.
Godfrey Cheshire is a film critic, journalist and filmmaker based in New York City. A native of North Carolina, he co-founded Raleigh’s Spectator Magazine and began writing film criticism professionally in 1978. After moving to New York in 1991, he served for a decade as chief film critic for New York Press; his writings have also appeared in The New York Times, Variety, Film Comment, The Village Voice, Interview, Cineaste and other publications. He has also won three Arts Criticism awards from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. Cheshire’s areas of special interest include Iranian film, the conversion to digital cinema and cinematic representations of the American South. He is a former chairman of the New York Film Critics Circle and a member of the National Society of Film Critics.
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On three films that played at NYFF from legendary directors: Jafar Panahi, Cristian Mungiu, and Laura Poitras.
A fest opening dispatch that includes thoughts on the Opening Night film, Noah Baumbach's White Noise.
On the best of NYFF, including Memoria and The Power of the Dog.
Thoughts on the best of the New York Film Festival, including Joel Coen's The Tragedy of Macbeth, starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand.
A review of three documentaries that played at NYFF 2020.
A dispatch from NYFF on the latest from Cristi Puiu, Tsai Ming-liang, and Heidi Ewing.
An interview with Kantemir Balagov, director/co-writer of "Beanpole."
This year’s festival was one of the strongest I’ve ever witnessed.
An excerpt from Godfrey Cheshire's new book.
A look back at the major films that screened at the Los Cabos Film Festival earlier this month.