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| In Review On Mic: The New York Film Festival | 12 Oct 2026 | 00:53:18 | |
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 * 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 Like and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Get full access to In Review Online at inreviewonline.substack.com/subscribe | |||
| In Review On Mic: The Debut | 07 Oct 2026 | 00:57:38 | |
In Review On Mic #1: Debuts Welcome to the first episode of In Review On Mic, the new podcast from In Review Online. For our pilot, we look at where three great filmmakers started out: their debut features. Hugo Emmerzael is joined by InRO writers Dhruv Goyal and Joshua Polanski, and each of them brought a debut to the table.The films * Badlands (Terrence Malick, 1973), picked by Dhruv * No Man’s Land (Danis Tanović, 2001), picked by Joshua * The Chaser (Na Hong-jin, 2008), picked by Hugo Chapters 00:00 Intro 01:36 Welcome, and our three debuts 06:00 Badlands 26:31 No Man’s Land 43:52 The Chaser 53:08 Wrap-up and plugs 56:00 Credits Also Mentioned * Malick: Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line, The New World * Tanović: Circus Columbia, Death in Sarajevo, Triage, The Postcard Killings, An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker * Na Hong-jin: The Wailing, Hope * The rest: Bonnie and Clyde, Breathless, Se7en, Taxi Driver, Paths of Glory, Eraserhead, Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-ho), Quo Vadis, Aida? (Jasmila Žbanić), 11’09”01 September 11, Murder 2 Recommended readingJohn Bleasdale, The Magic Hours: The Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick (University Press of Kentucky, 2024), the first full biography of Malick. It also covers what he was doing during his twenty-year break between Days of Heaven and The Thin Red Line.https://www.kentuckypress.com/9781985901193/the-magic-hours/Find our guests * Joshua Polanski: Joshua Polanski is a freelance film critic based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In addition to In Review Online, he contributes to The Rapidian, Klassiki Journal, Rue Morgue, Bay Area Reporter, and Offscreen, among other places. His interests include the technical elements of filmmaking & exhibition, slow & digital cinemas, and East Asian & Middle Eastern film. His column on Baltic cinema is the only place with dedicated and consistent writing on cinema in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in English on There Were No Gods Left. * Dhruv Goyal: A Bollywood Film & Music Lover now adrift on Silent Art House Shores. Has also written for High on Films. * Hugo Emmerzael: Hugo Emmerzael is an Amsterdam-based film critic, public speaker, and curator with over a decade of experience at the intersection of cinema, music and culture at large. He is on Instagram at @hemmerzael. Coming soon on In Review On Mic * A retrospective episode on Lee Chang-dong, as Possible Love opens in a limited US theatrical run ahead of its Netflix release * A bonus dispatch from the New York Film Festival * A Halloween episode with spooky movies Credits * Host: Hugo Emmerzael * Guests: Dhruv Goyal and Joshua Polanski * Producers: Chris Cassingham, Emily DuGranrut, Luke Gorham and Hugo Emmerzael * Music: Beau Zwart * A production of In Review Online Like and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Get full access to In Review Online at inreviewonline.substack.com/subscribe | |||