News Items
Raymond Depardon: Humanity in Focus
February 20 - March 4
All manner of humanity and events both quotidian and tragic are on display in Raymond Depardon’s richly dimensional portrait of modern police work, filmed while he was embedded for three months with the police in Paris.
An absorbing work of observation with a political bent, News Items finds Raymond Depardon embedding for three months with the gendarmes of the 5th arrondissement in Paris, tagging along with the cops as they go about their night shifts. All manner of humanity and events both quotidian and tragic pass by Depardon’s patient, curious gaze, and he renders a richly dimensional portrait of modern police work (and of the daily lives of police officers more generally), capturing happenings destined for the newspaper with a complexity of detail that only cinema can achieve.
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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.
