The Film Comment Letter: NYFF62 #2 - Harvest + On Becoming a Guinea Fowl + Paul Schrader on Oh, Canada 🍁

October 01, 2024 The Film Comment Letter: NYFF62 #2 - Harvest + On Becoming a Guinea Fowl + Paul Schrader on Oh, Canada 🍁 View in browser   |   filmcomment.com October 1, 2024 WEBSITE   |   PODCAST   |   LATEST Dear Readers, Welcome back to our regularly scheduled programming during this time of the year—our coverage of the 62nd New York Film Festival, where we're on the ground bringing you the latest from one of NYC's most treasured annual moviegoing rituals. As it unfolds, we'll be sending out extra Letters like this one, so you won't have to miss a moment of the goings-on! We kick things off today with Adam Nayman on two of this year's highlights: Greek auteur Athina Rachel Tsangari's Harvest and Zambian-Welsh filmmaker Rungano Nyoni's On Becoming a Guinea Fowl , both of which focus on small communities struggling to maintain cohesion, for better and worse, under pressure from within and without. As Adam writes, both films are politically charged ruminations on "the tender, vexing para... read