SOUND ADVICE
“Girls and Cars!”: Electroclash Duo Somewhere Special Make Us a Playlist
October 15, 2024
To mark the release of their new single, “Secret,” the New York-based electroclash duo Somewhere Special joined us for this week’s edition of Sound Advice.
GAY
How Marwan Kaabour Wrote the Definitive Guide to Queer Arab Slang
October 11, 2024
The London-based graphic designer and linguist paid us a visit on his North American book tour to talk about “The Queer Arab Glossary.”
NYFF
“I Like to Be Alone on Stage”: 15 Minutes With Isabelle Huppert
October 11, 2024
We met the French actor for a morning coffee at L’Alliance New York to talk ambiguity, intuition, and her latest film, director Hong Sang-soo’s “A Traveler’s Needs.”
OFF MENU
The Paige DeSorbo Guide to Being an Italian-American Princess
October 11, 2024
In this month’s installment of Off Menu, we took “Summer House” star Paige DeSorbo to New York’s hottest new Italian spot for a lesson in spaghetti and meatballs.
REMAKE
Nathalie Emmanuel Tells Omar Sy About Life On Set With Francis Ford Coppola
October 10, 2024
The “Game of Thrones” star tells her friend and former co-star how she kept Francis Ford Coppola’s secrets on the great, big set of his comeback film, “Megalopolis.”
LIT
Rachel Kushner on Creation Lake, Political Fiction, and Staying Off Twitter
October 10, 2024
The award-winning novelist joined us to talk about her latest book, “Creation Lake,” and the writers who inspire her, from Don DeLillo to Cormac McCarthy.
SOUNDCHECK
“The Internet Is Basically One Giant Cop”: Backstage at MSG With Jack Antonoff
October 9, 2024
We joined the Bleachers frontman backstage to find out what he’s learned playing alongside Taylor Swift and why he isn’t listening to “bots and shitheads” on the internet.
NYFF
“It’s Fucking Bullocks, Basically”: 45 Minutes With Hard Truths Director Mike Leigh
October 9, 2024
The Palme d’Or-winning “Hard Truths” director met up with Jeremy O. Harris to talk about the troubled state of cinema and why Los Angeles is a “tedious place to be.”
SMOKE BREAK
“It’s My Dark, Twisted Fantasy”: A Nine-Minute Cig With Filmmaker Olmo Schnabel
October 9, 2024
At the Roxy Cinema premiere of his film “Pet Shop Days,” the director shared his thoughts on Oedipal relations, growing up downtown, and working with Willem Dafoe.
NYFF
Filmmaker Eugene Kotlyarenko Gets Freaky in the Criterion “Bangbus”
October 8, 2024
The director talks depravity and John Waters ahead of the New York premiere of his latest film, “The Code.”
ICON
“How Do You Feel About Getting Old?”: Robert Longo, in Conversation With Richard Price
October 8, 2024
Before the opening of Longo’s comeback show, “Searchers,” the artist talked to his friend Richard Price about burnout, filmmaking blunders, and the pleasures and pitfalls of getting older.
NYFF
“You Can’t Put Me in Any Box”: 30 Minutes With Filmmaker Mati Diop
October 8, 2024
“I always felt much more heard and understood than in France,” the director told Jeremy O. Harris of New York City after the NYFF premiere of her sophomore feature, “Dahomey.”
STUDIO VISIT
Sculptor Brian Oakes on Fedora Guys and Sorting Machines
October 7, 2024
At Blade Study, where his show “SEED” is on view this month, the artist talked to us about dioramas, “fedora guys,” and why pressing buttons is compulsive.
NYFF
“I’m Optimistic for the Collective Soul”: 30 Minutes With Filmmaker Jacques Audiard
October 7, 2024
After the NYFF premiere of his genre-bending musical crime thriller “Emilia Perez,” the French director met up with Jeremy O. Harris to talk fear and Fosse.
OUTSIDE
“I’m an Adrenaline Junkie”: Bar Hopping With DJ John Summit
October 7, 2024
Only a few hours after getting punched in the face in Times Square, the DJ and party boy John Summit joined us in the Lower East Side to talk bottles and baddies.
SCREEN TIME
How Lauren Greenfield Captured the Reality of Growing Up Online in Social Studies
October 4, 2024
The master documentarian joined us at New York’s Roxy Cinema to talk Instagram-face, comparison culture, and her sobering new mini-series, “Social Studies.”
NYFF
RaMell Ross Wanted to Play in the NBA. Now He’s Opening New York Film Festival.
October 4, 2024
Just after opening New York Film Festival, the director of “Nickel Boys” joined Jeremy O. Harris to talk astrology, art school, and abandoning his hoop dreams to make movies.
NYFF
Curator Dennis Lim Takes Us Inside the 62nd New York Film Festival
October 4, 2024
A few days into the New York Film Festival, Jeremy O. Harris sat down with programmer Dennis Lim to discuss this year’s formally diverse slate of movies.
RORSCHACH TEST
TikTok King Bach Buquen Is Hot, Viral, and French
October 3, 2024
The dancing social media sensation gives us the skinny on boomers, baguettes, and classical music.
PICABIA
“I Don’t Believe in Meaning”: Getting Existential With the Painter Harold Ancart
October 3, 2024
“I don’t think that painting is by any means an extremely serious activity,” says the artist, who walked us through his new show at Fleiss-Vallois, “7 Paintings and 1 Painting.”
