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NYFF Dispatch 6: Party Crashing Out
A peek behind the curtain of New York Film Festival afterparties. Plus: brief impressions of Sentimental Value, It Was Just an Accident, and If I Had…
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Andrew Truong
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Byron Lo
NYFF Dispatch 5: Deliver Me From Mediocrity
After the Hunt, Deliver the Anemone From Nowhere.
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Andrew Truong
NYFF Dispatch 4: Great Movies, Greater Disappointments
Dynamite Landmarks like Jay Kelly are only Falling once in a Blue Moon, pending the Terms & Conditions of his Resurrection.
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Andrew Truong
NYFF Dispatch 3: One Movie After Another
One Kontinental Battle For the Road.
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Andrew Truong
The Best Places To Eat & Drink Near the Lincoln Center, During NYFF and Beyond
A very opinionated, very definitive guide to good bars and restaurants in an area that doesn't have many.
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Andrew Truong
NYFF Dispatch 2: Andrew Truong’s Day
Back in Peter Hujar’s Day, Magellan captained the Rose of Nevada on a journey across the Sirāt bridge, with a stowaway Secret Agent.
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Andrew Truong
NYFF Dispatch 1: The Pre-Festival Begins
No Other Choice but to stan The Mastermind who achieved Late Fame by performing Miroirs No. 3.
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Andrew Truong
Saying Sorry with a Pot of Curry
Cooking as communication in All We Imagine As Light, one of the year’s best movies. Recipe for a yummy Kerala fish curry inside!!
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Andrew Truong
Ranking All 33 Movies I Saw at NYFF
The final New York Film Festival report! With some data analysis to compare my ratings vs. Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes
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Andrew Truong
What I Ate Before/Between/After Seeing All Those NYFF Movies
The festy scran report.
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Andrew Truong
NYFF Dispatch 6: Blitzkrieg Flop
Steve McQueen’s ambitious festival closer doesn’t rise above its formula.
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Andrew Truong
NYFF Dispatch 5: A Grand Tour of Asia, in Film and Food
From Rangoon to Sichuan, and many places in between.
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Andrew Truong
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