An exhausting and exquisite journey through 2025 NYC Film Festivals

 

Over the course of three weeks up north and with a few more days using virtual access to some things, I dove deep into the amazing opportunities available to cinephiles and movielovers of all sorts in and around the NYC area in the late September and October of 2025. Thankfully, my editor was down with the idea of spreading the forty-eight films and four shorts out across three sections, so I was able to cover just about everything.

Installment One

After The Hunt

Anemone

Blue Moon

If I Had Legs, I'd Kick You

Mister Scorsese

Queens of the Dead

Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost

Installment Two

Drunken Noodles

It Was Just An Accident

The Love That Remains

Miroirs No. 3

Mother of Flies

Only Good Things

Pillion

A Private Life

Rose of Nevada

Sentimental Value

Tinsman Road

Installment Three

Anything That Moves

Barrio Triste

BLKNWS: Terms and Conditions

Cinderella

Cover-Up

The Currents

Dead Lover

Dracula

Duse

Every Heavy Thing

Father Mother Sister Brother

Gavagai

I Only Rest in The Storm

Jacques The Giant Slayer

Jay Kelly

Kontinental '25

Last Night I Conquered The City of Thebes

A Last One For The Road

Late Fame

Lesbian Space Princess

Magellan

The Mastermind

No Other Choice

Nouvelle Vague

Nuestra Tierra (Landmarks)

The Occupant of The Room

Peter Hujar's Day

Resurrection

The Secret Agent

The Serpent's Skin

Sholay (The Original Cut)

Sirat

The Sleeping Beauty

With Hasan in Gaza

Festival Wrapup 2024: The New York Film Festival, NewFest, Brooklyn Horror Film Festival

 Bits and pieces from an epic festival rondelay this fall in New York. A lot gets covered, and it's worth the dive.

Fall 2023 Festival Round-Up: New York Film Festival/NewFest

 The big kahuna, wherein I recount the joys of the 2023 New York Film Festival and NewFest. 

Films included are a lot, and you should just read the article. The click would mean something dear to me.

Festival Update: NYFF and NF

 An in-depth dive into the 2022 New York Film Festival and NewFest, NYC's preeminent LGBTQIA+ film festival.

Catching Up with the 2020 New York Film Festival.

 I went (really) long on the 2020 New York Film Festival, and I think I covered a decent amount of ground with it.

What I've been doing as of late.

Things which I have been up to over the past few months.



Oh yeah, and Lady Bird. I reviewed that.

Goblin, y'all! Goblin! With awesome YouTube mixtape attached.

A review of The Killing of a Sacred Deer, which is awesome, and people who dis it as having anything to do with Michael Haneke are mistaken.

For the sixteenth consecutive year, I attended the New York Film Festival.

A piece on the transcendent guitarist Mdou Moctar.

Adam Gold and I compiled our personal fave Depeche Mode tracks.

Aww shit! I was on a podcast talking about Depeche Mode.

A review of the Safdie Brothers' Good Time.

A review of the new It, wherein I was actually physically assaulted by a drunk person during the press screening.

An Overview of the Fifty-Third New York Film Festival.

As I've done for every year since 2002, I went to this year's New York Film Festival. Here's my thoughts on a lot of what I saw (In my ten days in Manhattan, I saw twenty-six features and eighteen shorts.)

Validate My Existence. New York Film Festival '11.

So the Nashville Scene ran my wrap-up of the time I spent at the New York Film Festival in September and October. Here it is. Read it, please...

Famous People Talked to Me: David Fincher, Aaron Sorkin, Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield.

A fun day at the Walter Reade, getting to the heart of things.

Catching up at the Movies: Life During Wartime.

A surprising box office disappointment, considering how well Happiness did in nashville back in the day.

Famous people Talked to Me: Michael K. Williams, Ally Sheedy, and Todd Solondz.

A chance to talk with Writer/Director Todd Solondz, Actor Michael K. Williams, and Actress Ally Sheedy at the 2009 New York Film Festival. This is where that photo of me and Omar comes from...

Catching Up at The Movies: Wild Grass (Les Herbes Folles).

A bonkers opener for the 2009 New York Film Festival, and a truly unique offering from one of the greats. I apparently liked this more than most.