‘The Rider’ Named Best Picture by the National Society of Film Critics
“Roma” also acquitted itself well, winning three prizes.
“Roma” also acquitted itself well, winning three prizes.
Zhao’s unorthodox Western is one of the year’s best movies, and the story behind its production sends a strong message.
The numbers don’t lie, and they spell disaster for “Gotti.”
Zhao said with her Bass Reeves biopic, she’ll direct a more traditional cast like she did with her first-timers: “You can work with an actor in a certain way, you can create an environment like Terrence Malick has always done.”
Composer Nathan Halpern explains how he collaborated with director Chloé Zhao to create a score that balanced the hybrid film’s mix of cinema vérité and a modern western.
It will be her third feature.
IndieWire spoke with U.K. filmmaker Andrew Haigh and China-born Chloé Zhao about the joy and difficulties of shooting the exotic West.
“The Rider and “Zama” round out three openers directed by women, as Lynne Ramsay holdover “You Were Never Really Here” continues to pull cinephiles.
In this essay produced as part of the NYFF Critics Academy, Caroline Cao looks at how the story of a Lakota cowboy interrogates the American dream.
The film premiered at Cannes before making its way to Telluride and Sundance.
Chloe Zhao returned to the setting of her debut feature to craft a docudrama about a real-life American cowboy in the midst of a major life change.
In this dispatch from the NYFF Critics Academy, two new westerns that shake up the conventions of the genre with non-professional actors.