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Q & A with Norman Jewison and casting director Lynn Stalmaster on May 25!
In Jewison’s Chicago farce based on screenwriter Ben Hecht’s days as a cub reporter, a young naïf (Beau Bridges) gets schooled in big-city political corruption.
Q & A with Norman Jewison and casting director Lynn Stalmaster on May 25!
Jewison delightfully evokes turn-of-the-century Chicago in this warm-hearted, nostalgic farce loosely based on Ben Hecht’s early days as a newspaperman. When a starry-eyed small town boy (Beau Bridges) comes to the big city, hoping to make his name as a writer, he ends up with a room in a whorehouse and a job with the Chicago Journal. A would-be reformer, Bridges is quickly, and hilariously, caught up in the schemes of a colorful parade of deal-peddling politicians, cynical reporters, and women of loose morals (and hearts of gold).
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Kamal Aljafari on With Hasan in Gaza and ‘The Camera of the Dispossessed’
Our 63rd New York Film Festival Talks featured a special conversation with With Hasan in Gaza director Kamal Aljafari, moderated by Film Comment editor Devika Girish.
Lucrecia Martel on Our Land (Nuestra Tierra), the Filmmaker’s First Feature Documentary
On the latest episode of FLC Luminaries, our video series that spotlights talent at all levels of the filmmaking process who uplift the art and craft of cinema, Our Land (Nuestra Tierra) director Lucrecia Martel discusses her expansive and enlightening first feature documentary.
Carla Simón on Her Poignantly Autobiographical Romería
This week we’re excited to present a conversation from the 63rd New York Film Festival with Romería director Carla Simón, moderated by NYFF Main Slate selection committee member Florence Almozini.
