In Review On Mic #2: A Dispatch from the New York Film Festival
For our second episode, Hugo Emmerzael hands the mic to InRO editor Chris Cassingham, who reports from the 64th New York Film Festival with regular contributors Ethan J. Rosenberg and Robert Stinner. Together they dig into three of the festival’s most talked-about titles, and each shine the spotlight on one more favorite amongst the lineup.
The films
* Everytime (Sandra Wollner, 2026), winner of the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes
* The Man I Love (Ira Sachs, 2026), with Rami Malek
* Bucking Fastard (Werner Herzog, 2026), with Kate and Rooney Mara
One more film each
* Robert: The Devils (Ken Russell, 1971), the restored, uncensored version
* Chris: Report to Mother (Amma Ariyan, John Abraham, 1986), from the Revivals section
* Ethan: A Man of His Time (Notre salut, Emmanuel Marre, 2026)
Chapters: 00:00 Intro; 01:15 Welcome, and our NYFF histories; 04:36 Everytime; 20:16 The Man I Love; 34:01 Bucking Fastard; 42:17 One more film each: The Devils, Report to Mother, A Man of His Time; 52:04 Wrap-up; 52:14 Outro and credits.
Also mentioned
* Past NYFF favourites: Toni Erdmann, Manchester by the Sea, Christian Petzold’s Transit, Mark Jenkin’s Rose of Nevada
* On Everytime: Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan), Blue Heron (Sophy Romvari), Ozu’s Good Morning (Ohayō)
* On The Man I Love: Angels in America, Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart, Elsinore with Andrew Scott
* On Bucking Fastard: Herzog’s Queen of the Desert, Salt and Fire, Family Romance, LLC, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser and Even Dwarfs Started Small; David Lynch’s The Straight Story, Wild at Heart and Lost Highway; Practical Magic 2; Ridley Scott’s The Dog Stars
* On A Man of His Time: Michael Winterbottom’s 24 Hour Party People and Welcome to Sarajevo
Read more on In Review Online
* Robert Stinner on The Man I Love
* All of our NYFF 2026 coverage
Find our contributors
* Chris Cassingham
* Ethan J. Rosenberg
* Robert Stinner
* Hugo Emmerzael: on Instagram @hemmerzael
Credits
* Host: Hugo Emmerzael
* This episode: Chris Cassingham, with Ethan J. Rosenberg and Robert Stinner
* Producers: Chris Cassingham, Emily DuGranrut, Luke Gorham and Hugo Emmerzael
* Music: Beau Zwart
* A production of In Review Online
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