The Film Comment Letter: NYFF62 #3 - You Burn Me + Little, Big, and Far + Jia Zhangke on Caught by the Tides 🌊

October 04, 2024 The Film Comment Letter: NYFF62 #3 - You Burn Me + Little, Big, and Far + Jia Zhangke on Caught by the Tides 🌊 View in browser   |   filmcomment.com October 4, 2024 WEBSITE   |   PODCAST   |   LATEST Dear Readers, Welcome back to 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.  We open today's Letter with our very own Michael Blair writing about a pair of selections from the NYFF Currents section, Matías Piñeiro's You Burn Me and Jem Cohen's Little, Big, and Far , both of which find profound significance in illusive, shimmering surfaces—whether those of books or the night sky. The newest poetic puzzle from Piñeiro takes as its jumping-off point the works of two writers, the ancient Greek poet Sappho and the Italian modernist Cesare Pavese, to tell a typically playful and insightful metafictional tale. Michael finds Little, Big, and Far , the centerpiece of this year's Currents ... read