Author Jared Rapfogel

16 – 25 November 2007 Thessaloniki may be an ancient city, but much of its history has been effaced by time, war and relentless modern building, its remaining ancient monuments rising incongruously out o...

April 25–May 7, 2006 Founded in 2002 in the wake of the WTC attack as a way of celebrating and reinvigorating its neighbourhood, the Tribeca Film Festival has outgrown its origins, both in its location –...

October 1–2, 2005 Packed tightly into two demanding, marathon-like days, this year’s annual New York Film Festival component Views from the Avant-Garde featured a record ten programs, some comprising a s...

April 19–May 1, 2005 It’s hard to describe New York as a film-festival-starved town, with the 41 year-old New York Film Festival towering most visibly over a teeming hive of more specialised cousins, f...

October 1–17, 2004 The venerable, 42 year-old New York Film Festival is no longer the only game in town, with the Tribeca Film Festival stealing some of its spotlight and, more importantly, growing, matu...

More comprehensible than the prolific Kurosawa's previous efforts, this story of an unlikely friendship between a hopeless youth, an older man and a jellyfish is still unconventional and moving.

In this conversational yet rigorous interview, Dworkin discusses the techniques and overall experience of working on Love and Diane, a landmark in contemporary documentary that, in the tradition of Wiseman, reveals the workings of social structures from the point of view of human experience.

Please note: discussions of individual films reveal plot details. Year after year I find myself frustrated by the New York Film Festival's extreme selectivity, its policy of showcasing only a handful of ...

Jared delights in films from this region of the world, in particular, their humility, insight and complexity in grasping a reality much harsher then that of the contemporary West.

January 24-27, 2003, NYC http://www.dreamsofanation.org In New York City, a town largely defined by the presence of so many ethnic and national identities, the Palestinian Film Festival that took place ...

Though Kaufman-Jonze's latest effort may be striking, intelligent and original, it may not be as radical or novel as we're led to believe.

The 40th anniversary of the New York Film Festival was a strange affair – a far more relevant event than in past years, but relevant in spite of itself. The announcement that Abbas Kiarostami had been denie...

Despite generic constraints and eccentric characters, Donnie Darko keeps things sincere and moving.

A film artist with a difference: Rapfogel explores how.

An appraisal of Lynch's career to date and its various modes, where the difference between weird and strange is all-important.

Domestic Violence is the latest entry in one of cinema's greatest bodies of work: one where the meeting of camera and reality gives birth to a whole range of social, ethical, and aesthetic issues.

Overview of this year's program in addition to some probing comments on the Festival at large.

A thoughtful analysis of contemporary Iranian cinema's unique brand of neo-realism as exemplified in Close-Up.

A fine analysis of Panahi's oeuvre to date.

A genuinely sensitive and insightful critique of this film.

An Eustache retrospective was recently held in New York.

Rapfogel reflects on an intense festival experience.

More of the master, please! An in-depth discussion of this Rivette film.