Soleil Nathwani

Get Closer: The Intimate Gaze of Films at NYFF62

Get Closer: The Intimate Gaze of Films at NYFF62

A second intimacy arises between our lives and those unfolding on screen…and in setting their sights on exploring ordinary lives…

November 28, 2024

Pop Stuff: The Taste Test for ‘The Bear’ Goes Through ‘Middlemarch’

The series approaches story in the timbre of a great Victorian novel, something we’ve lost patience for in a relentless…

September 19, 2024

Pop Stuff: Death Becomes Us

On the 61st NYFF and a 2023 that brought a strange bounty of death at the movies

January 5, 2024

Pop Stuff: Five O’Clock Somewhere

‘Let me conjure a cocktail tour of Manhattan, one that those wordsmiths who were partial to the bottle might like…

September 20, 2023

Pop Stuff: In NYC, Shaping A New True North of Dining Out

Perhaps what we need is to normalize a breakfast of tamagoyaki, a soup-dumpling lunch, chicken stew and fufu after a…

March 30, 2023

Pop Stuff: NYFF at 60: Asking the Tough Questions

If this year’s lineup of films is anything to go by, one thing the New York Film Festival will continue…

November 19, 2022

Pop Stuff: The Proper Binge

‘Julia’ is a celebration of something that has all too often been held in check; female hunger – for food,…

July 26, 2022

Pop Stuff: Ties That Bind: Myth and Metaphor in ‘The Lost Daughter’

‘By shedding light in dark places, Gyllenhaal and Ferrante might give those who are or desire to be mothers a…

May 2, 2022

Pop Stuff: Hot Stuff

Chef Chintan Pandya and restaurateur Roni Mazumdar allow Indian cuisine to be itself, with plans to entice the American palate…

January 31, 2022

Pop Stuff: Shame On Who?

‘In spite of having civil rights laws around harassment, if we don’t actually talk about it in numbers, nothing happens’

October 25, 2021